Peer reviewed practices and lessons learned from 2020
In 2020, the RAN Collection started to differentiate between ‘inspiring’ and ‘peer reviewed’ practices to raise awareness about the increasing necessity of evaluating P/CVE interventions. To date, 14 practices have taken part in the review and are now labelled as peer reviewed practice in the RAN Collection:
- Jamal al Khatib, Austria
- Athena Sintax: where art and education meet, Belgium
- CSHR: intercultural education, Croatia
- R2PRIS, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, the Netherlands, Romania and Turkey
- Managing Controversy: Developing a Strategy for Handling Controversy and Teaching Controversial Issues in Schools, United Kingdom
- JUMP, Exit work located in the social space, Germany
- Open Youth Work as a methodology preventing and countering extremism, Austria
- Aggredi programme, Finland
- Advice Centre Hesse, Germany
- Radicalisation Prevention and Deradicalisation in Prison and Probation (formerly known as ‘Taking Responsibility — Breaking away from Hate and Violence, Germany
- Swedish method of working with formers in Exit work, Sweden
- The Framework of Radicalisation Risk Indicators, Bulgaria
- Social Net Conferencing, Austria
- Extremism Information Centre, Austria
Below, the first round of expert reviews is reflected in the RAN Collection in numbers:
For the overarching lessons that can be drawn for the 2020 Expert Review, please consult this infographic.
Taking part in the Expert Review in 2021
In 2021, between 15 and 20 new RAN Collection practices will be invited for an expert review on a voluntary basis. They will be selected based on quality, taking into consideration a balanced geographical spread of practices throughout the EU and an equal distribution of practices focusing on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
- Primary prevention is targeted at whole population groups or everyone within a broad category of P/CVE.
- Secondary prevention is targeted at defined groups at risk of radicalisation/violent extremism and/or prone to committing criminal/terrorist acts.
- Tertiary prevention is directed toward radicalised individuals or problem groups and individuals who demonstrate problematic behaviour for a violent extremism cause.
This year’s expert review will focus on key themes (see below) in P/CVE in alignment with the 2021 strategic orientations of the coordinated EU approach on preventing radicalisation. The selected practice should show a clear link with the following key themes in P/CVE:
- prison and exit continuum
- probation
- returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters and their families
- training for first-line practitioners
- local interventions
- communication
Additional criteria:
- The practice is still running*;
- The practice was last updated in the RAN Collection in 2019, 2020 or 2021 to ensure a list with the most recent best practices;
- It has been monitored and evaluated to some degree already.
*Some practices in the RAN Collection were ‘short-term interventions’ and are no longer running. Since some of these practices are excellent examples of P/CVE interventions, exceptions may be made regarding this criterion.
Find out more
Check out more than 200 inspiring practices here.
If you have any questions about the RAN Collection, contact Fenna Keijzer or Sophie Scheuble.