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Youth engagement in the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism: RAN takes the “Nimble (NMBL)” approach

Wednesday, 20 March, 2019

The most recent Issue Paper published by RAN (Radicalisation Awareness Network) of the European Commission is the 2018 publication “A Nimble (NMBL) Approach to Youth Engagement in P/CVE”. Its purpose is to provide practitioners working with young people with a step-by-step guide on how to best engage them in initiatives that seek to prevent or counter violent extremism.

The handbook uses the NMBL Approach, a framework based on the philosophy of effective youth engagement in planning and project design, and it offers a matrix which follows four key steps: 1. NAME the problem; 2. MAP...

Monday, 4 March, 2019

The European Commission network RAN (Radicalisation Awareness Network) brings together frontline or grassroots practitioners from around Europe to share experiences and knowledge, as well as providing a global platform to pool expertise in order to tackle radicalisation.

RAN’s newest addition to its webpage is RAN Media – a platform for sharing videos and podcasts which mainly focuses on various aspects of their work. A wide range of materials are available, including videos of seminars and conferences, and outlining policies and practices.

This includes resources, for...

Wednesday, 2 January, 2019

The white paper 'Protecting Children’s Rights and Keeping Society Safe: How to Strengthen Justice Systems for Children in Europe in the Counter-Terrorism Context?' has been recently published on the IJJO website. It examines law, policy and practice relating to the treatment of children who are alleged as, accused of or recognised as having committed a terrorism-related offence. It is available in English and French languages via this link.

The treatment these children receive at the hands of justice, protection and other authorities charged with their care and with holding them...

Wednesday, 2 January, 2019

The Regional Overview Report 'Children, the Justice System, Violent Extremism and Terrorism: An Overview of Law, Policy and Practice in Six European Countries' has been recently published on the IJJO website. It explores what happens to children when they come to the attention of the criminal justice authorities as a result of alleged involvement with terrorist activity in six European countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany and the Netherlands). It is also based upon input from practitioners in Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Portugal.

This report is available in ...

Friday, 7 December, 2018

The final conference of the IJJO led project ‘Strengthening Juvenile Justice Systems in the counter-terrorism context: Capacity-building and peer-learning among stakeholders’ took place on the 29th of November at the Kartuizercenter Auditorium in Brussels (Belgium). This project aims to identify, promote and strengthen the political responses of juvenile justice systems and specialised programmes in order to tackle juvenile terrorism and violent extremism.

This final conference offered all project partners the opportunity to present their results, and in turn served as a...

Tuesday, 20 November, 2018

As the European agenda and recent events that have occurred since 2015 demonstrate, the issues of radicalisation and violent extremism, which may be conducive to terrorism, have become the principal concern of a significant number of Member States.

However, in the midst of the rush to enact counter-terrorism legislation at National and European levels, little if any consideration has been given to the fact that some of the suspected or alleged ‘terrorists’ could be children or underage juveniles.

The way terrorist suspects are treated in general needs to be considered in...

Tuesday, 4 September, 2018

The manual ‘Prevention of Juvenile Radicalisation’ has been produced in the framework of the IJJO-led project 'PRALT - The prevention of juvenile radicalisation: Promoting the use of alternatives to detention through judicial training’, co-financed by the Justice Programme of the European Union. Originally published in English, this publication is now available in Spanish, French, German and Romanian as well.

The PRALT project is carried out in partnership with the Judicial Youth Protection Services (DPJJ) of the French Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice of Bremen (Germany...

Thursday, 14 June, 2018

The IJJO has recently published the manual ‘Prevention of juvenile radicalisation’. This publication has been produced in the framework of the IJJO-led project 'PRALT - The prevention of juvenile radicalisation: Promoting the use of alternatives to detention through judicial training’, co-financed by the Justice Programme of the European Union.

The PRALT project is carried out in partnership with the Judicial Youth Protection Services (DPJJ) of the French Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice of Bremen (Germany), the National Administration of Penitentiaries and the Romanian...

Thursday, 14 June, 2018

‘Mon enfant se radicalise. Des familles de djihadistes et des jeunes témoignent’, written by sociologists Vincent de Gaulejac and Isabelle Seret, seeks to answer the questions of why jihadism is appealing for some young people, as well as how we can deal with those who have been radicalised and those at risk.

This publication is the result of the work done within the programme ‘Rien à faire, rien à perdre’, developed by the book authors and carried out in Belgium with the support of the Schaerbeek municipality, which aimed to create a pedagogical resource for the prevention of...

Friday, 8 June, 2018

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ms. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, visited France from 14 -23 May 2018. The Special Rapporteur conveys her thanks to the French government for enabling and supporting this visit. The purpose of the visit was to dialogue and assess French practices in law, policies and practice in the fight against terrorism, measured against France’s international human rights obligations , and in particular in the following areas: oversight of counter-terrorism powers including...

Youth engagement in the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism: RAN takes the “Nimble (NMBL)” approach

The Radicalisation Awareness Network launches new web section gathering media resources

White paper published: 'Protecting Children’s Rights and Keeping Society Safe: How to Strengthen Justice Systems for Children in Europe in the Counter-Terrorism Context?'

'Strengthening Juvenile Justice Systems in the counter-terrorism context' project's Regional Overview Report and National Reports published

Final conference of the project 'Strengthening juvenile justice systems in the counter-terrorism context’ held in Brussels

Conference « Strengthening Juvenile Justice Systems in the counter-terrorism context: capacity-building and peer learning among stakeholders »

Spanish, French, German and Romanian versions of manual on prevention of juvenile radicalisation published

New manual on prevention of juvenile radicalisation

New publication: ‘Mon enfant se radicalise’

UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism concludes visit to France