RAN LOCAL Papers

This paper presents the main conclusions of 2 days of presentations and lively group discussions. On day 1, participants discussed the new developments and political conflicts that might escalate and radicalise into violent extremism and terrorism.

This manual outlines responses to FTFs and their families, returning or planning to return to their home countries within the EU, from terrorist conflict zones such as Syria and Iraq. When the term “returnees” is used in this manual, it refers to FTFs and their families (women and children).

The digital ecosystem is becoming both ever more complex and therefore equally important for practitioners to understand.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a momentum for different narratives that are based on the idea of distrusting governments and political policies.

The RAN small-scale meeting on ‘Dealing with dissemination of extremist ideology and radicalisation within unofficial prayer rooms’ took place on 30 March 2022. This meeting brought together first-line practitioners with experience with unofficial and official prayer rooms.

Violent extremism is a global issue, but the start of a radicalisation process often takes place in a local context. Cities or neighbourhoods that at first sight appear to have similar socio-geographic characteristics do not always turn out to be a similarly ‘fertile’ breeding ground...

The paper looks into whether these services are provided by state or civil society actors, where the helpline/hotline services are geographically located and which areas they cover.

This paper presents the main highlights of the discussion held in Skopje and relevant recommendations to different target groups.

This paper will first describe the main themes discussed during the meeting and relevant practices.
Recommendations concerning the P/CVE perspective on the vulnerabilities of asylum seeker and refugee communities are outlined in the second part.