- Country
- Netherlands
- Target Audience
- Youth/pupils/studentsFamiliesLocal community organisations/NGOs
- key themes association
- (Early) preventionCommunity engagement/civil society
- Peer Reviewed practice
- No
- Year
- 2016
Organisation
Zasja is an NGO, focussing on research, lecturing, training and initiating/co-ordinating projects on topics like the institutionalisation of Islam in the Netherlands, discrimination, integration and radicalisation, often in co-operation with organisations of Muslim migrants in the Netherlands and mainly funded by the (local) government(s) and/or private funds.
Type of Organisation: NGO
Project description
Making visible and strengthen the role of mosques in preventing radicalization and polarization by building communal social (and - indirect - religious) resilience.
Aims:
- To enlarge the social role of mosques
- To include, inform and attend muslim youngsters and their social environment (parents, friends and family)
- To create resilience amongst muslim youngsters against radical tendencies of islam, discrimination and exclusion
- To support, attend and train members of boards and/or commissions of participating mosques.
- To advance the cohabitation of different ethnic and religious communities and to counteract islamophobia, radicalisation and polarisation.