Calendar

Prague, Czech Republic

Multi-agency meeting RAN Exit-P&P

Meeting adjacent fields: rehabilitation, resocialisation and exit activities: This meeting aims to map in what sense the rehabilitation of radicalised or extremist offenders differs from rehabilitating ‘regular’ criminals. Participants will look into the methods that are used in the fields of exit and probation and how the two could cooperate and perhaps even merge.

Target audience: Exit workers, probation workers, prison officers involved in rehabilitation efforts

Prague, Czech Republic

Multi-agency meeting RAN YF&C – P&P

Extremists being released from prison - community and family acceptance: the meeting aims to identify available good practices on this topic.

Target audience: experts from prison and probation services and exit programmes, community and family support workers, local P/CVE coordinators

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Berlin, Germany

RAN EDU

Schools and challenging far right extremism: this meeting aims to discuss the best ways to address the issue of far-right extremism not only inside the classroom, but in the wider school community.

Target audience: teachers, projects leaders and researchers dealing with far right extremism

Bilbao, Spain

RAN RVT

How can victims contribute to social cohesion after a period of violence? This meeting will discuss the social and political situation of victims in countries after a longer period of violence, and look into the question of how victims can contribute to improving social cohesion in these areas.

Target audience: members of the RVT Working Group, European Commission and RAN CoE staff members

Vienna, Austria

RAN Research Seminar

The seminar will focus on an assessment and discussion of current developments of Islamist extremist and far right extremist ideologies, and on the rehabilitation of terrorist and extremist offenders. This will be complemented with debates around current approaches to knowledge sharing within the P/CVE stakeholder-triangle of ‘practitioners – policymakers – researchers’, and an outlook on which topic areas should be prioritised in the future.

Target audience: researchers, practitioners, policymakers involved in Islamist extremist and far right extremist ideologies, and in the rehabilitation of terrorist and extremist offenders

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Policy & Practice event

Narratives and strategies of FRE and Islamist extremists: this event is an opportunity to look into the most used narratives and strategies by far right violent extremist and terrorist groups and discuss which elements and grievances should be addressed on what level and how.

Target audience: national policy planners of the Policy Planners Network, RAN POL and RAN C&N participants, representatives of EUROPOL, academics and experts

Madrid, Spain

RAN YOUNG Academy session 3 - Challenges & progress: this session will focus on issues and difficulties in setting up initiatives. Solutions and possibilities will be identified and potential sources for success will be defined.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Helsinki, Finland

Policy & Practice event

P/CVE trends in the EU - in collaboration with the Finnish EU Presidency: the meeting aims to achieve a common understanding of the trends in radicalisation to violent extremism within the EU, as well as a common appreciation of the responses needed to prevent and counter these trends.

Target audience: Members of the Steering Board and Network of Prevent Policy Makers, RAN practitioners

Helsinki, Finland

Policy & Practice event

Extremists being released from prison: community and family acceptance: this meeting aims to assist policymakers better understand the challenges practitioners face with regards to this topic and to formulate policy recommendations. The purpose of this meeting is also to inform practitioners about the priorities, sensitivities and complexities of this topic on a national level.

Target audience: practitioners from RAN P&P, RAN YF&C, RAN LOCAL and RAN POL, national policymakers

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Berlin, Germany

Member States workshop on far-right extremism

Lisbon, Portugal

RAN C&N

Communications after an attack and the role of media: this meeting will focus on how to deliver alternative and counter-narratives in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

Target audience: youth workers, social or family workers, crisis communications specialists, journalists, social media companies and academics

Zagreb, Croatia

Multi-agency meeting RAN EDU-H&SC

Troubled Refugee children in the classroom: this meeting considers how to sensitise educators about the vulnerabilities and resilience issues faced by refugee children and the valuable role teachers and other school staff play in safeguarding these pupils.

Target audience: educators, social workers working with families and healthcare professionals

Berlin, Germany

RAN YOUNG Academy session 4 - How to professionalise your initiative? What is next? After setting up their local P/CVE initiatives, the participants will learn how to professionalise their initiative to ensure a sustainable impact in their communities.

Target audience: RAN YOUNG Academy participants

Rome, Italy

RAN EXIT

This meeting will deal with gender issues in exit strategies.

Target audience: Exit workers

Helsinki, Finland

RAN H&SC

Alienation vs integration: this meeting will discuss the vulnerability of refugees with regard to radicalisation to violent extremism.

Target audience: social workers, healthcare practitioners working with refugee

Rome, Italy

Follow-up meeting Prosecutors: this meeting aims to determine whether a group of prosecutors and possibly judges should be permanently included in RAN.

Target audience: prosecutors and possibly judges specialised in violent extremism and terrorism

Berlin, Germany

Member States workshop on Islamist Extremism

Madrid, Spain

Policy & Practice event

Evaluating impact of disengagement, deradicalisation and resocialisation efforts: this event aims to provide with methodologies for evaluating exit work and other P/CVE interventions.

Target audience: exit workers

Milan, Italy

RAN LOCAL

When and how to intervene – specific case management: this meeting aims to formulate guidelines for case management and to share valuable insights about when to intervene.

Target audience: Experienced local and regional P/CVE coordinators

London, UK

RAN C&N

How to make an effective campaign that is reaching the target audience and selling the message: the purpose of this meeting is to hold a training session during which participants can learn from marketing, communication and advertising specialists on how to create better communication campaigns.

Target audience: practitioners involved in alternative and counter- narrative campaigns

Antwerp, Belgium

RAN EDU

Challenges in Islamist extremist ideology in schools: the meeting aims to share experiences, to collect and present different European educational settings in which schools are confronted with religious-inspired extremism.

Target audience: experts in education and PVE at schools

Brussels, Belgium

Steering Committee

Nice, France

RAN RVT

VIII International Congress for the Victims of Terrorism: this meeting aims to use the commemoration of attacks as a way to prevent violent extremism.

Target audience: representatives of victims associations, victims of terrorism of recent and older attacks, and Member State representatives.

Copenhagen, Denmark

RAN YF&C

Academy on ‘Youth(work) online’: this meeting aims to disseminate lessons learned from RAN C&N and the Civil Society Empowerment Programme.

Target audience: experts on one-to-one interventions, communication and narratives experts, experienced youth workers, academics/researchers

Place TBC

RAN POL

Information sharing: this meeting focusses on how police officers can best work with recent legal developments.

Target audience: police experts involved in multi-agency settings on a local level, experts from intelligence agencies

Dublin, Ireland

Multi-agency meeting RAN Exit-RVT

Restorative Justice: this meeting focusses on elements (insights, methodological approaches and tools) of restorative justice that can be implemented in exit work and provide guidelines (including the methodological approach).

Target audience: Exit workers, professionals in the field of restorative justice and victims

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Editorial Board

Rome, Italy

Policy & Practice event

Safeguarding refugees from being recruited and radicalised: this meeting aims to achieve a common appreciation of the responses needed to prevent and counter violent extremism within receiving communities targeted against newcomers, such as refugees.

Target audience: practitioners and policymakers engaged in preventing radicalisation in education, health and social care as well as youth, family and community work

Place TBD

Member States workshop on rehabilitation and reintegration of terrorist offenders