RAN Publications

With people spending a great deal of time online, the ideal integral approach in the prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE), on the local level, is no longer based solely on face-to-face contact and interventions.

This is a specialised overview paper on the key themes of the RAN Communication & Narratives (C&N) Working Group in the past 10 years.

The RAN LOCAL Working Group was not part of RAN from the start. The creation of an EU platform for local governments to exchange information on multi-agency cooperation was recommended during a 2014 EU Cities conference on foreign terrorist fighters.

The paper will start by covering the highlights from the presentations and discussions, followed by recommendations building on the Central Asian experiences that are relevant for European practitioners. Lastly, the paper will share promising practices and further readings.

This specialised paper explores key themes of the RAN Youth and Education Working Group (RAN Y&E). These themes are topics related to: working with youth in and around schools and supporting teachers; working with youth and supporting youth workers; youth participation in preventing and countering..

This overview paper is on the key themes of the RAN Mental Health working group (formerly Health & Social Care). These key themes are related to: Mental health profiles; Mental health and multi-agency working; And the professionalisation and support of the mental health professional in P/CVE.

This document centres on the key themes of the RAN Victims of Terrorism (VoT) Working Group. The discussed topics relate to the following thematic areas: supporting victims/survivors of terrorism; helping victims/survivors of terrorism to make their voices heard...

This paper will first describe the challenges discussed by experts during the meeting. Based on this, first ideas and recommendation for practitioners, policymakers and research are presented.

This is a document on the key themes of the RAN Families, Communities & Social Care (FC&S) Working Group. These key themes are all topics related to: working with families and supporting family workers; working with communities and supporting community workers; supporting social care practitioners.

This paper will explore the main highlights of the RAN Y&E working group meeting, in line with the challenges experienced by youth workers and school personnel regarding establishing collaboration.

The digital EU-USA study visit that took place on 24-25 March 2021 brought together 57 practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and academics with the goal to discuss current challenges and share promising practices addressing racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism...

This paper summarises the key points and recommendations that were brought forward by the topical experts who participated in the small-scale expert meeting.

This paper first discusses the threats regarding grooming tactics on video gaming and video gaming adjacent platforms by providing background information on different models of grooming that were shared during the meeting.

This webinar addressed the emergence of a new transnational (cross-border) violent right-wing extremism (VRWE) movement and its implications for P/CVE practitioners on a local level.

The following paper presents a summary of the recommendations made by the young people in the first section and outlines an introductory guide for local authorities with different steps for the organisation of a Youth Review Panel in the second section.

Conspiracy theories are morality tales based on archetypal narratives about right versus wrong, good versus evil. Providing “black and white” world views, they foster societal divisions between in-groups and out-groups by exacerbating intolerance against “the other” and delegitimising different...

This paper describes the task of mental health professionals working in the context of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) and provides guidance on how this can be undertaken to be consistent with ethical practice.

The paper will start by covering the highlights from the presentations and discussions, followed by recommendations building on the Southeast Asian experiences that are relevant for European practitioners. Lastly, the paper will share promising practices and further readings.

This paper provides a picture of risk assessment tools used in EU Member States both in the prison and security contexts. It focuses on existing instruments, their content and how they are used at the moment.