RAN Practices

This model offers intervention at two levels: it addresses the general population as well as individuals.

The target group of this deradicalisation work is young people who identify as extreme or radical right-wing and/or who distinguish themselves by extremely intolerant behaviour in terms of group-focused enmity.

The main focus of the Advice Centre Hesse is to intervene in the radicalisation process. Targeted deradicalisation activities are aimed at people who tend to travel to war zones, return to Germany as ‘foreign fighters’ and/or are seeking to disengage from extremist ideologies.

Since 2012, Kitab, a Team at VAJA e.V., works on countering radicalisation processes of youngsters in the context of fundamentalist Islamism and Salafism, by counselling parents, relatives or other persons belonging to their social circle.

The main goal of the Aggredi programme is to reduce violence or stop it completely on an individual level. Another important objective is to develop working methods for use with community violence offenders.

Our school is a multicultural flagship school in the city of Antwerp. Our students represent more than 60 nationalities. Our teaching staff also boasts great diversity.

BOUNCE is a package of three interconnected and complementary tools (BOUNCEyoung, BOUNCEalong and BOUNCEup) targeting youngsters and their social environment.

Since 2015, all correctional officers receive, as part of their two-year basic training programme, approximately 20 hours of education, training and lectures related to radicalisation and violent extremism.

‘Radicalisation’ is used interchangeably with ‘indoctrination’. Essentially, it means creating self-motivation among people to do certain things, and the events of recent years have shown that the line between silent beliefs and violent action can be very thin.

The Cooperation Network – Living Together Safely has been revived in 2020 and was originally established by the German Islam Conference (DIK) in March 2008, earlier known as ‘Clearing Office for Preventive Cooperation’.

The Danish national corps of mentors and parent coaches works with those in or affiliated to extremist groups, or at risk of radicalisation, and with their families or next of kin.

Dare to be Grey is a foundation that challenges polarisation in society. It calls for recognition of the 'grey' middle ground in issues often mistakenly considered 'black and white'.

‘Denkzeit’ literally means ‘time to think’ or ‘thinking time’. It is an one-to-one-training that is aimed at youngsters (aged 13 to 25) at school, in prison or on probation, who usually display behavioural problems, particulary in regard to aggressivness and a high prospensity to violence...

The aim of the practice is to build a safe space for dialogue among groups from radical right wing to radical left wing in the city of Wrocław and three smaller cities of Lower Silesia Region in Poland, using knowledge from the field of mediation and restorative justice.

The suggested practice is a long-distance education programme for Finnish children living in the al-Hol refugee camp in northern Syria that was conducted by the Finnish government between May 2020 and mid- 2021.

EXIT SCS is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with expertise in facilitating exiting strategies for clients in coercive environments through a systemic-constructivist approach.

EXIT-Germany is an initiative assisting individuals, who want to leave the extreme right-wing movement and start a new life. Being the first to start such an endeavour in Germany, EXIT-Germany constitutes one of the most experienced and successful programmes in deradicalisation and exit-assistance..

JUMP supports staff working in social spaces (particularly practitioners and educators) to engage with a particular subset of young people vulnerable to radicalisation and violent extremism.

A biologistic anti-gender ideology is an essential characteristic of right-wing extremism. Images such as the man defending the ‘folk community’ ‘Volksgemeinschaft’) and the woman as the stereotype of a ‘German mother’ are central elements.

The Extremism Information Centre is a nationwide contact point for parents, teachers, social workers and any other persons seeking advice on issues of violent extremism. Our definition of extremism is broad and covers both politically and religiously motivated extremism.

The aim of ‘Ey schatje!’ / ‘Hi babe!’ is to increase understanding, empathy and positive communication between adolescents.

The Fair Skills (FS) practice has recently been implemented as a European Fair Skills (EFS) approach in three eastern European countries. It is financed by the 'Prevention of and Fight against Crime' (ISEC) programme and the Directorate-General (DG) for Migration and Home Affairs.

HAYAT (Turkish and Arabic for “Life”) is the first German counselling programme for persons involved in radical Salafist groups or on the path of a violent Jihadist radicalisation, including those traveling to Syria and other combat zones.

The GOT Project comprises a series of fully-resourced formal and informal sequential educational programmes and resources which challenge all forms of extremism and violent extremism. The target audience ranges from primary-age school children to youth and adults.

The role of the Garda National Diversity and Integration Unit (GNDIU) and its team of Garda (Police) Ethnic Liaison Officers (ELOs) is to liaise with minority communities and reassure them that police services are available to them without discrimination.

Our mission is to change the attitudes of young people and build a society where all can coexist with certain shared values and a common understanding.

There are many misconceptions about identity. Many people identify with their environment or with acquired factors like religion, the particular subculture they identify with, or even what they engage with on the internet.

LEAP (Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner) is a set of evidence-based practices that create therapeutic alliances and trusting relationships with people suffering from severe mental illness.

This training pack is a professional development programme for use primarily by teachers and school leaders, but also by NGOs, community organisations and others in education settings.

This training pack is a self-reflection tool for school leaders, leadership teams and teachers, offering guidance on how to handle controversial issues in schools and education settings.

Mediated dialogue is an inter-group contact-based practice where groups that may be polarised or that need to repair relationships are brought together and facilitated through a dialogue process.

Mothers present a missing link in the entire community approach to preventing the spread of violent extremism. Their physical and emotional proximity make them witness to each stage of their child’s development.

The Multi-Agency Approach to Rehabilitation of radicalised detainees (MAR), organised by the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, is an approach for detainees held on extremism or terrorism-related charges.

The nationwide Institute for right-wing extremism and family provides counselling services for two groups. First is the relatives (parents, children or other close family members) of those who have joined a movement in the area of right-wing extremism or are in danger of doing so.

NeDiC is a unit in the Hessian Ministry of Justice that is responsible for the coordination and supervision of CVE practices in the Hessian penal system.

No Cap is youth slang for “I’m not lying, I’m telling the truth”.

The main difficulty encountered in prisons is detection of the radicalisation of prisoners. We have therefore set up training courses to raise awareness of the problem of radicalisation, indicators and how to transmit the information to the appropriate people.

“Miteinander – Netzwerk für Demokratie und Weltoffenheit in Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.” is a German non-profit NGO, which is committed to an open, pluralistic, and democratic society. We work against racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of discrimination against people (group-focused enmity).

The programmes 'Peer to Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism' and 'Peer to Peer: Facebook Global Digital Challenge' are global university youth initiatives and international competitions that harness the power of student innovation to challenge prejudice, online hate and extremism.

The training is focused mainly on the testing of the new list of indicators of violent radicalisation and on the deepening of knowledge of the Islamic culture.

A special coaching programme for imprisoned parents is aimed to prevent the right wing radicalisation of their children.

The Preventive Policing Unit of the Helsinki Police Department consists of 4 teams that use preventive measures on their respective fields.

This project targets young people arrested for committing ideologically motivated acts of violence (right-wing extremists or radical Islamists). It aims to support such youngsters in their effort to live responsibly and non-violently, detached from inhumane ideologies.

Working with families where social services have concerns of radicalization is a complex matter. Historically this has been the job of the intelligence services or Police.

‘Respect! – Against hate speech online and locally’ wants to ensure that politically motivated threats, racist insults and hate speech on the internet are not accepted unchallenged.

COVID-19 had a relevant impact on society, economy and politics of European societies, including in Italy.

Seven German federal states are currently working on developing a strategy on how to re-integrate people who had left Germany in order to join Islamist groups, primarily the Islamic State in the Levantine.

Social net conferencing offers offenders in prison the chance to develop a mandatory plan for their future after their release. Offenders work together with their social network (or net) to create this plan, which is then sent to the judge, who issues orders according to the plan, at the trial.

The nationally operating Team TER (Terrorists, Extremists and Radicals) helps the Dutch Probation Service prevent (further) radicalisation of Dutch probationers.

The Engagement and Support Program’s (ESP) primary goal is to build resilience to radicalisation through diversion, disengagement and desistance.

The Peaceable school is a whole-school approach for primary schools, aiming to cultivate a democratic community where children's voices are heard, and where children and teachers learn to resolve conflict constructively.

The prevention pyramid of Johan Declerck is an instrument that can be used to orient and achieve insights into how to optimise one’s policy for the prevention of radicalisation.

The Redirect Method (TRM) was developed in 2016 by Moonshot CVE in partnership with Google. It is deployed via online platforms such as YouTube and Twitter, as well as specially designed websites.

At its root, this training need was identified through operational requirements in information flow and detection of radicalisation. The training addresses limited knowledge among prison staff on how to recognise signs of radicalisation.

The provider is The Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague in cooperation with Prison Service of the Czech Republic. The trainers are from the Police Academy, the Prison Service, the Police – National Centre against Organised Crime.

The Academy for Countering Radicalisation (Rijksopleidingsinstituut tegengaan radicalisering, ROR) was established in order to create awareness among first-line practitioners working for the government and semi-government.

Belgium’s Federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers (Fedasil) provides training for reception centres and support services staff.

After several incidents of right-wing extremist and racist contents in chat groups among police officers, a comprehensive approach was chosen to prevent extremism and foster democratic resilience within the police organisation.

This practice focuses on reaching out to members of online groups that spread conspiracy theories and/or anti-democracy propaganda (these groups include known members of extremist groups trying to recruit).

Under Pressure is an innovative classroom programme that increases resilience against disinformation and polarising content to prevent online isolation and radicalisation among young people.