Luton Borough Council has worked in collaboration with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to establish the Special Interest Group (SIG) against right-wing extremism, launched in January 2013. It was created to reduce the threat posed by far-right extremist groups to the safety and security of East Lancashire, and to share…
The “Racism: Say it to Fight it” campaign is operated under the direction of the Polish Interior Ministry. The campaign provides immigrant groups the tools they need to fight discrimination and to alert them to the government resources that help to respond to discrimination and violence.
Project Exit was formally established in 1997, originating as a three-year development project by the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Children and Family, and the Directorate of Immigration. It was hosted by the NGO ‘Adults for Children’. The project had three primary objectives: to establish local networks to support…
Proceedings of the Conference ‘Community Tensions: Evidence-Based Approaches to Understanding the Interplay between Hate Crimes and Reciprocal Radicalisa on’, 26 April 2013
Established by the state criminal police in Saxony, Soko Rex (Special Commission on Right-wing Extremism) takes a two-track prevention/repression approach that combines deterrence policies designed to limit the appeal of extreme right-wing discourses with the prosecution of acts of criminality and violence perpetrated on behalf of far-right ideologies., The preventative…
The Interdisciplinary Advisory Service for Local Action against Racism and Xenophobia in Norway provides complementary forms of expertise to municipalities and local agencies dealing with crises they do not know how to manage. This is achieved by developing an adequate analysis of the problem and ascertaining the significance of the…
This edited collection brings together many of the world’s leading experts, both academic and practitioner, in a single volume handbook that examines key international issues in the field of hate crime. Collectively it examines a range of pertinent areas with the ultimate aim of providing a detailed picture of the…
The issue of racism is a relatively new topic for both Polish policy and public discourse. During the communist era, the idea of Poland as a uni-national state was pervasive. After the collapse of communism in 1989, the prime minister of the first democratic government declared that Poland would be…
Lessons Learned from Women in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Applied Successfully in Bangladesh and Morocco
[War on the Rocks] has partnered with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) to publish a series of infographics based on data from their Global Terrorism Database and related START projects.
This report examines the government prevention program to date while also looking at examples of non-government and community-based initiatives to counter violent extremism. When well-planned and implemented, the latter can be very e?ective, but in some cases, they turn into exercises in vigilantism that are as ugly when mobilised against…
All roads lead to Damascus and then back out again but in different directions. The financial and military aid flowing into Syria from patrons and neighbors such as Iran, Russia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Arab Gulf states is intended to determine the outcome of the conflict between a…
