The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, between Israel and Hamas, is having a polarising effect upon communities across the EU. Violent extremists are capitalising on events to sow division and discord in order to radicalise and recruit. In this context, the focus of many practitioners within the RAN network is to prevent vulnerable individuals from joining violent extremist groups. However, running in parallel to this effort and just as important is the work of those practitioners whose job it is to help people leave radical environments and extremist groups. This work is often highly sensitive, sometimes dangerous and time-consuming. In this edition of the RAN Practitioners Update we find out more about the work and life of an exit worker. To do this, the Update features the most recent RAN Reporters film, the latest RAN In Focus podcast and relevant papers on the topic.
Exit work
RAN Reporters
The latest episode of RAN Reporters – a series of films which uncover some of the best and most interesting and innovative projects being delivered by members of the RAN Practitioners network – visits EXIT-Germany in Berlin, to learn about how it helps people across Germany leave extremist movements.
The first in a new three-part series of RAN Practitioners podcasts, called RAN in Focus, on online interventions, explores the world of online exit work. In conversation, the podcast discusses the work of Lotta Carlsson and how she has used the online world and digital technologies in her work.
A recent edition of the RAN Practitioners Spotlight magazine takes a look at some of the challenges and approaches to exit work. The publication features a film about the Deaconess Foundation in Finland, a feature on EXIT-Germany and articles on mentorship and the role of civil society.
A RAN Practitioners paper, produced in 2022, explores the role civil society or-ganisations play in exit work, and how they can collaborate with different govern-mental stakeholders to design and co-implement sustainable exit programmes.
We continue our series of featuring some of the best P/CVE projects funded by the EU. In this Update we focus on the RDaVR project, which aims to prevent the radicalisation of young people.
Dealing with anti-system/anti-government attitudes and extremism among young people
This paper discusses how practitioners experience and observe anti-system/anti-government extremism (ASAGE) among the young people they work with. The paper gives an overview of general and circumstance-specific elements that construct the breeding ground for ASAGE and outlines new strategies and approaches to dealing with it.
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