Regional ‘Train the trainers’ Seminar on Prevention/Countering Violent Extremism

  • 03.10.2018
  • Skopje

Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) together with the Ministry of Interior of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are organising a ‘Train the trainers’ seminar on Prevention/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in the Western Balkans (WB). 

The event, to be opened by the host, Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski and the RCC Secretary General, Goran Svilanovic will discuss the current state of play in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in deradicalisation, importance of Integrative Internal Security Governance (IISG) and the Western Balkan Counter-Terrorism initiative (WBCTi) in supporting whole society approach concept in the Western Balkans, and the role of the EU Raising Awareness Network.

The second part of the seminar is designed as the set of sessions on practical experiences, tackling stopping of radical narratives and distribution of roles in this process; importance of preventing radicalisation in prisons; the need for a conflict transformation/peacebuilding and whole society approach to P/CVE in the WB; and the significance of online radicalisation and how it should be contextualized within the cyber security strategy.

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