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03.10.2019

VOX-Pol Lunch Briefing Series on Violent Political Extremism

The 2019 Lunch Briefing Series are aimed at an audience of policymakers, security practitioners, academics and graduate students, journalists, and civ...

24.09.2019

ARMOUR: Addressing societal polarization caused by the adoption and spread of extremist ideologies by creating an interdisciplinary education oriented model of learning

The ISPF-project ARMOUR explores a new learning model to provide individuals in the community and practitioners the know-how, as well as a toolkit con...

19.09.2019

ARMOUR @ XXVIII Conference of the Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations, 18-20 Sept 2019, Spain

On 25 November 2018, the European Council ratified the Agreement on the Exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. However, in January 2019...

12.09.2019

New online training hub for first-line practitioners!

The platform firstlinepractitioners.com provides latest information and knowledge, practical guidelines and useful supporting tools for first-line-pra...

05.09.2019

ConnectFutures asks: Are you ready to prevent extremism?

Understanding, credibility, organisational processes – there are lots of ways to prepare colleagues, organisations and communities to tackle hate and...

01.09.2019

ARMOUR Newsletter #4 has been published!

The fourth edition of the ARMOUR Newsletter has been published! It covers the July-August 2019 summer period and is focused on the projects advancemen...

29.08.2019

RAN Guidelines for young activists

The RAN YOUNG Empowerment Academy held its second session on 7 and 8 May in France: participants attended workshops, worked on their projects plans an...

22.08.2019

Building Secondary Source Databases on Violent Extremism: Reflections & Suggestions

It is often argued that a limitation to studying and challenging violent extremism (VE) is a lack of data – extremists are a difficult research popula...

15.08.2019

RAN: Best practices on training first line practitioners

The training for first line practitioners approach focusses on the first line practitioners working with vulnerable individuals or groups at risk of r...

08.08.2019

Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks

Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (2019, London: Routledge, 208 pages) is the outcome of empirical research, seminars, workshops and interviews c...

01.08.2019

Researching Violent Extremism: The State of Play

The study of violent extremism is entering a new phase, with shifts in academic focus and policy direction, as well as a host of new and continuing pr...

25.07.2019

RAN: The role of sports and leisure activities in preventing and countering violent extremism

There are two reasons to discuss sports and leisure activities in the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). The first one is because extremists misu...

18.07.2019

ARMOUR Experimental Labs’ methodology

ARMOUR targets a diverse range of potential influencers: common people in the middle ground and first line practitioners in state institutions and CSO...

11.07.2019

RAN: Educating young people is key

Education is the key to preventing youngsters and young adults from being attracted to violent extremist ideologies and organisations. Prevention in f...

04.07.2019

ARMOUR Focus Group in Austria

The ARMOUR Focus Group in Austria was held on 4 July 2019 and was virtually hosted by our partner SYNYO GmbH. Only three practitioners took part (six...

03.07.2019

ARMOUR report on conducted interviews

At the end of June 2019, the ARMOUR Project finalized the first qualitative research activity under the project. A total of seventy-one stakeholders w...

01.07.2019

ARMOUR Newsletter #3 is out!

The third edition of the ARMOUR Newsletter is out! It covers the May-June 2019 period highlighting on our advancement under ARMOUR Work Package 2 'Map...

27.06.2019

Expert Exchange in Tunis Aimed at Preventing Radicalisation and Promoting Democracy sees participation from the ARMOUR Project

Experts gather in Tunis for an exchange dedicated to New Perspectives against Radicalisation - Preventing Radicalisation and Promoting Democracy throu...

26.06.2019

ARMOUR Focus Group in the Netherlands

The ARMOUR Focus Group in the Netherlands was held on 26 June 2019 and was hosted by our partner University of Groningen (via the Security, Technology...

24.06.2019

The TAKEDOWN H2020 European Project has been closed in Valencia: Europe did not measure the seriousness of radicalisation

“The European institutions have not been able to gauge the seriousness of radicalisation”, has declared José Luis Serrano, Head of Area at the Intelli...

21.06.2019

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