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  • Violence Prevention Network

    Violence Prevention Network (VPN) is an NGO including a network of experts in prevention of extremism and deradicalization. The organization uses prevention, intervention and de-radicalization approaches to violence prevention. The method of education of responsibility is implemented involving voluntariness, transparency in regard to roles, responsibilities and methods towards the clients, establishing a dialogue, building a…

  • HAYAT

    Established in 2011 and since January 2012, HAYAT has been the partner of the German Federal Office for Immigration and Refugee Affairs, which established a national counseling hotline on radicalization (‘Beratungsstelle Radikalisierung’). Taking calls from relatives and other concerned persons, the hotline provides a first line assessment to then redirect the calls to local, non-governmental…

  • UFUQ.DE

    The Berlin-based (ufuq.de) association co-operates with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. It is supported by the Ministry for Family Affairs within the scope of the democracy initiative and financed by the foundation Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. The association is engaged in youth work at school as well as extracurricular youth work with young Muslims and tries to…

  • Prevention Network Religiously Motivated Extremism

    By launching this program at federal state level, Hesse closed a gap in the fight against radical tendencies, mainly among young Muslims. The development of the program was based on the insight that the growing problem posed by the religiously motivated extremism cannot be countered with the methods and means available to the security authorities…

  • Advice Centre on Radicalisation

    The counseling service at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is meant as a first contact point for relatives and friends of young people who already are or are becoming radicalized. It provides advice on issues related to religiously motivated extremism and radicalization. If necessary, individual personal support by civil-society experts can be offered.