The criminal justice training to fight against violent radicalisation

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The criminal justice trainig to fight against violent radicalisation COUNTERADHUB is a 20 month project aimed at, firstly, putting in place a national training programme for all professionals related to criminal justice dealing with radicalised violent extremists or those at risk of becoming radicalised in a holistic, multi-disciplinary, multiprofile and sustainable approach, And secondly, devising a multiagency HUB to foster multiagency cooperation within the criminal justice system. For those objectives, the project analyses criminal Justice instruments to cope with violent extremism and degree of implementation, the needs of training among criminal justice professionals in Spain and the strategy to cope with violent radicalization in the criminal justice system and policy recommendations. Based on that reports, COUNTERADHUB will design the training, implement 3 pilot seminars and set the basis for online training. All of these work will based on qualitative and quantitative methodologies, mainly, in-dept interviews and focus grooups, and surveys among professionals. The “pilot” training is aimed at 60 professionals split in multiprofile groups in three training sessions: (a) prison management b) prison staff, c) police, d) prosecutors, e) judiciary, f) lawyers g) counselors. At the end of the project a fine-tuned training format will be ready to be delivered to all the professional community around 1500 professionals. As a result, criminal justice professionals will have an increased knowledge on Countering Violent Extremism and raised awareness on the convenience to be regularly trained and updated. They will also strengthen cooperation among relevant actors to push for an inter-agency approach. The project will foster exchange and participation with existing EU structures to support Member States, will increase consideration on the contents of the European Agenda on Security and consolidate bridges between iMinisteries and Academy.