RAN Publications

This small-scale meeting set out to increase understanding and further discuss the controversial topic of Involuntary Celibates, or Incels.

This paper presents the findings of the RAN PRISONS meeting on 10 December 2020, where practitioners involved in risk and needs assessment (RNA) in prisons met. This paper presents the main conclusions and insights of the discussions and provides some key recommendations.

Previous RAN Meetings have shown that daily interactions and relations between prison staff and inmates can contribute to the monitoring and assessing of cases, and can be a valuable addition to risk and needs assessment tools.

This paper summarises the outcomes of the meeting. Firstly, the paper will dive into the highlights of the discussion and explore the challenges regarding FTFs as well as other VETOs. Next, it will highlight the main recommendations formulated by practitioners.

The incel phenomenon is being studied more and more, from a P/CVE perspective as well. As there are links between certain parts of the incel movement to (other) types of extremism, it is important to try to understand what is going on in this mostly online world.

Throughout the EU, for over a century, Member States (MSs) have suffered from different forms of war, atrocities and terrorism and have developed different approaches in the way of managing the memory of such conflicts.

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.