Open Society Foundations: Rights & Justice, utilises advocacy and litigation to combat the marginalisation of racial and ethnic minorities in Europe,taking on cases involving migrants, school segregation, violence against Roma, and policies that ban Muslims from wearing the hijab or building mosques.
Over the last 12 months a team of researchers at ICSR have created a database of the social media profiles of 190 Western and European foreign fighters. More than two thirds of these fighters are affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusrah or the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) – two…
The Athena Institute has emerged as a formidable source of information on both left and right-wing extremism in Europe. It conducts several important campaigns, but the most important is its monitoring database of extremist groups and their activities. The purpose of this monitoring is to serve as a tool for…
Back on Track aims to develop and test mentoring schemes as a tool to support inmates in leaving right-wing, left-wing and religious extremism behind. It has been developed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration in close cooperation with the Danish Prison and Probation Service
The Centre Against Racism (CMR) organises anti-racism efforts under a central umbrella framework in Sweden, to fight everyday racism, and fight institutional racism within the Swedish government. The CMR also serves as the coordinating organisation network for the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), which works to create plans of action…
Centrum 16.22 is dedicated to capacity and resilience building specifically related to issues of identity and discrimination within schools of The Hague. The organisation provides a variety of services, including one-on-one mentoring for students through, traineeships for prospective coaches, courses for primary and secondary school children and learning packages and…
Operating within the Los Angeles area Clean Slate is primarily describes itself as a ‘therapeutic process’ that focuses on assisting gang members in their efforts to depart from their former lifestyles through a variety of counselling and activities programs. However, clients range from survivors of domestic violence to those affected…
The Commitee for Dialogue aims to rehabilitate former militants back into society through dialogue and practical help. The process involves two steps: first dialogue between the clerics and the militants, and then the reinsertion/reintegration of the former militants into society.
The Saudi Counselling Program is based upon the presumption of benevolence, not vengeance or retribution. It assumes that suspects were abused, lied to, and misled by extremists into straying away from true Islam, and that the state wants to help prisoners return to the correct path. The programme is structured…
An interagency unit based at the U.S State Department, the CSCC’s primary objective is to systematise U.S strategic communications to counter the appeal of violent extremist ideologies among foreign populations, particularly as related to Al-Qaida and its global affiliates.
Initiated to actively engage young people from a variety of minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds, the Danish Ethnic Youth Council presently aims to further active citizenship, promote integration, democratic participation and community building in Danish society.
Diamond offers a two-tier training initiative to vulnerable youngsters (of predominantly Muslim background), and frontline workers. The initiative is not explicitly aimed at combating issues of extremism, but through the referrals made by teachers and youth workers, the programme offers youngsters ‘empowerment and identity formation’ classes, which aims to increase…
