Gender often plays a significant role in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), whether that be gender-based approaches deployed by violent extremists to radicalise and recruit, gender-specific vulnerabilities, gender-related issues, such as gender identity, the role of mothers in prevention or gender-based rehabilitation and reintegration approaches. In this edition of the RAN Practitioners Update we take a look at some the gender-related challenges facing practitioners. The Update also features a new segment, ‘Projects’, which highlights some good practices of projects, campaigns and interventions delivered by members of the network.
Gender
Spotlight
The latest Spotlight magazine – which gives practitioners the opportunity to share their views, insights and experiences on relevant and timely P/CVE topics – takes a look at some of the gender-related challenges facing practitioners today, including trauma in men and boys, youth and masculinity, incel propaganda, gender-related hate speech and misogyny.
Podcast
In an episode of RAN Practitioners’ podcast series, ‘RAN in Focus’ from 2022, we hear from three practitioners – Katherine Brown, Eviane Leidig and Christian Mogensen – who discuss the need to recognise and work with gender in the P/CVE world, as well as some of the gender dynamics of violent right-wing extremism (VRWE) and violent Islamist extremism.
Paper
A RAN Practitioners paper, entitled ‘Gender-specific approaches in PVE’, discusses the role of misogyny within different extremist ideologies and explores how to provide accurate programmes for girls to build resilience (against both misogynist behaviour and extremist recruitment) and how to facilitate dialogue for respect and understanding between boys and girls.
Upcoming events
Stay tuned to the Calendar page on the RAN Practitioners website for more updates on meetings which will take place in 2023.
Projects
Perspectives: Remembrance
In a new section of the RAN Practitioners Update, we feature some of the best practices from among members of the RAN Practitioners network. The first of these comes from the RAN Practitioners Victims/ Survivors of Terrorism Working Group. Following a meeting earlier this year on ‘cultural and artistic approaches in commemoration and P/CVE’, two participants collaborated to set up an exhibition, called ‘Perspectives: Remembrance’, in cooperation with survivors of the Manchester Arena attack, to explore what remembrance means to them.
Publications
Enhancing collaboration between law enforcement and other stakeholders in P/CVE
This paper aims to address the challenges and obstacles of multi-disciplinary work in P/CVE. The paper identifies lessons from the past and good practices that can be further explored, advanced and adapted to the current Western Balkans context. The paper also explores cooperation models between law enforcement and other relevant actors and how those models can be adapted.
Cultural and artistic approaches involving victims/survivors of terrorism, with a commemorative, healing or PVE aim
This paper provides insights for practitioners on the different and intersecting dimensions in which art and culture can play a role in connection to victims and survivors of terrorism (VSoT). The paper also provides an analysis of the challenges connected to this process and makes a series of recommendations about how to implement such approaches.
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