CEAR – Community Engagement Against Radicalisation

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Objectives

  • To systematize a practical model of community and civic engagement that can enhance civil society’s skills and capacity to prevent and counter radicalisation;
  • To test and develop an evidence-based methodology of community engagement aiming at preventing and countering radicalisation into 3 digital toolkits targeting three types of community: organisations of families of radicalised people, youth organisations and Muslims Communities;
  • To implement the evidence-based methodology by supporting 54 local actors through tailored training, in order to teach them on how to empirically apply the toolkits in their own communities;
  • To develop a support consultancy service in order to help 22 youth organisations, 14 organisations of family of radicalised people and 18 Muslim communities in implementing 54 Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE)/Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) initiatives.

Activities

  • Development and implementation of 3 digital toolkits for organisations composed by families of radicalised people, youth organisations, Muslims Communities;
  • Delivering 3 trainings for trainers for the Consortium’s NGO on how to use and disseminate the toolkit;
  • Meeting for local communities developed by the consortium’s trainers;
  • PVE/CVE initiatives developed by the local actors.

Resources

Impact

  • Enhanced access to practical tools on PVE/CVE for individuals;
  • Increased engagement of individuals in working as multipliers within their own communities.
  • Enhanced awareness of the general public about radicalisation, including basic ways of prevention and social myths.
  • A better sense of identity, community belonging and civic purpose;
  • Increased resilience against recruitment tactics and indoctrination perpetrated by violent extremist groups.

Partners

The project

CEAR – Community Engagement Against Radicalisation

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Implementation date

01/12/2019 – 30/11/2021

Fundings

DG Migration and Home Affairs, Internal Security Fund – Police 2018 (AG-CT-RAD)

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Info & contacts

E-mail

justice@cesie.org

Website

https://cearproject.eu

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ALMALBA

Supporting young people aged between 18 and 29 years who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) resident in Spain, favouring their social integration in society by making them undertake an educational and work experience in Palermo.

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