Youth Radicalisation

By Sarah Stevenson and Dr Steve Barracosa Practitioners working in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE) are routinely exposed to confronting and offensive ideas and content, including graphic violence, gore, hate, terrorist propaganda and ideologies. Despite this, there is a relative gap in the literature considering the experiences and well-being of practitioners undertaking this ...

Kristy Campion, Charles Sturt University and Emma Colvin, Charles Sturt University Vulnerable young Australians are being targeted and recruited into extremist organisations. Sometimes, adult recruiters use grooming and coercion. Young people are seen as easy targets because they are looking for a place to belong, rather than holding deep-seated ideological beliefs. Last week, Australia’s Independent ...

VOX-Pol contributed to this week’s [Y] Factor Conference, a Youth Conference organised by the trainees of the European Committee of the Regions in collaboration with CoR services at the end of their traineeship period. The main idea behind [Y] Factor is to tackle the topics and issues that concern young people by bringing together local ...