Violent Extremism

Priority Topics

The dangers caused by violent extremism in European countries are paramount concerns of the criminal justice system. Prison and probation programs are two working fields where radicalisation, as well as deradicalisation meet. It is therefore important that prison and probation programs play an effective role in preventing violent extremism and raising knowledge regarding (de) radicalisation. Firstly, because people who are sentenced for executing radical acts, end up there. A part of them will remain hardboiled and are determined to be faithful to their ideology. Others might want to quit their radical activities or want to stop being a member of a radicalised group. A third group are prisoners who are at risk of being recruited and get radicalised during imprisonment.

CEP contributes to the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the EU Strategy for Combating Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism by playing an active role in the Prison and Probation Working Group of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) of the EU Directorate-General Home Affairs and by raising awareness on these issues among its members by organising meetings and events.

VE Research and policy

On this page you will find research reports and guidelines about violent extremism. Are you looking for research reports or guidelines produced by organisations violent extremism, please click on the link.

Research

The Practitioner's Guide to the Galaxy - A Comparison of Risk Assessment Tools for Violent Extremism

Authors: Liesbeth van der Heide, Marieke van der Zwan, and Maarten van Leyenhorst (2019)

Best Practices in the Assessment, Intervention and management of radicalised offenders

Briefing paper: radicalisation in prisons in England and Wales

Understanding and conceptualizing European jihadists: Criminals, extremists or both?

Terrorism, radicalization and de-radicalization (2016)

‘Radicalisation’: The Transformation of Modern Understanding of Terrorist Origins, Psychology and Motivation (2016)

Council of Europe

Handbook for Prison and Probation Services regarding Radicalisation and Violent Extremism

Council of Europe

UNODC

UNODC Handbook on the management of violent extremist prisoners and prevention of radicalisation to violence in prisons

RAN EU

Rehabilitation Manual ‒ Rehabilitation of radicalised and terrorist offenders for first line practitioners

Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)

The Online Dimension of Extremism and Improving Online P/CVE Efforts

CONCLUSION PAPER RAN cross-cutting event 27 September 2022, Berlin, Germany

European Commission

A Counter-Terrorism Agenda for the EU: Anticipate, Prevent, Protect, Respond

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS. Brussels, 9.12.2020

EU Centre of Expertise for Victims of Terrorism

EU Handbook on Victims of Terrorism (2021)

EU Handbook on Victims of Terrorism

Annex to EU Handbook on Victims of Terrorism (2021)

Annex to EU Handbook on Victims of Terrorism

Projects

Discover the various projects CEP is involved in, both ongoing and completed.

HELP

EU/CoE HELP Project ‘Radicalisation Prevention, Judicial Response to Terrorism & International Cooperation in Criminal Matters’ (HELP RP-TERR-ICCM)
Cross-border crime, risks to public security and the rise of radicalisation leading to violent extremism and terrorism in the EU Member States continue to occur, alongside violations of fundamental rights. The increasingly open area of free movement could be abused by criminals (including terrorists) to pursue their objectives. The criminal justice response to these phenomena must be enhanced.

WayOut

The WayOut project – Integrated Exit Programme for Prisons and Probation – is fundamentally aimed at building a common framework to evaluate exit programmes along with the development of an innovative and integrated programme based on proven effectiveness approaches. Ultimately the project will improve and facilitate the implementation of exit programmes across the criminal justice system, namely in prison and probation settings. Hence, this project responds to one of the European Union’s security concerns: the problem of radicalisation leading to violent extremism. The official project website can be opened via this link.

PREPARE

With the Preventing Radicalisation through Probation and Release (PREPARE) project Efus wants to develop an innovative multi-agency de-radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation programme that includes local authorities in the process. First of all, they will identify the needs in the field. This will help them with drawing up fitting recommendations for the local authorities. Efus wants to strengthen their capacities in working with multi-agency prevention of radicalisation projects and bring together European local authorities that are willing to address radicalisation through release and probation.

Organisations Fighting VE

Within Europe there are different organisations active, violent extremism and terrorism. Here you will find an overview of these organisations with links to the pages on their website with important guidelines and other publications.

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