The exploratory meeting of the RAN Local Authorities Working Group (LOCAL) on “Local P/CVE strategy in times of COVID-19” took place in a digital setting on 30 November and 1 December 2020. Its aim was to explore the effects and changes that local coordinators and practitioners have encountered in their local multi-agency approach to preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) and in the detection of early signs of radicalisation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the meeting focused on exchanging innovative ways that practitioners and local coordinators have dealt with the restrictions following the pandemic. This conclusion paper captures those outcomes and provides some tips and recommendations for other local coordinators to continue their local multi-agency corporation and P/CVE interventions despite the COVID-19 restrictions they face. The conclusion paper is meant for local P/CVE coordinators as well as first-line practitioners working with people vulnerable to radicalisation. Read more