PREVENTING RADICAL ESCALATIONS - Agenfor International

PREVENTING RADICAL ESCALATIONS

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CONTRARY TO COMMON OPINIONS DIFFUSED BY ISLAMOPHOBIC WESTERN MEDIA, ISLAM AND RELIGIONS IN GENERAL CAN BE POWERFUL TOOLS TO COUNTER VIOLENCE, EXTREMISM AND RADICALISATION.

Preventing and Countering Radicalisation within the European prisons requires a balanced strategy capable of combining security with fundamental rights. Excessive security and surveillance may produce further radical dynamics among vulnerable inmates.

The urgency to avoid forms of imitation among prisoners and the importance to identify promising practices in a multifaceted panorama of multidisciplinary and sometime confused initiatives.