« Je vaux mieux que ça » : Une analyse qualitative des points tournants menant à la sortie de l’incelosphère
Dans le cadre d’un partenariat de recherche – abordant la question des incels – entre le RPC-PREV et le Laboratoire de recherche sur le développement sexuel de l’adolescent et du jeune adulte (DESAJ), l’infographie ci-dessus a été conçue afin de résumer certains résultats clés de la recherche. Plus précisément, cette étude vise à comprendre comment les incels qui ont quitté ou souhaitent quitter les écosystèmes incels (incelosphère) vivent ce processus.
*In French only
Infographic - Navigating Traumatic Content in Media Coverage of Conflict
In today's media landscape, the coverage of conflict and violence has a profound impact on viewers and communities. Our latest infographic, "Navigating Traumatic Content in Media Coverage of Conflict" highlights the ethical responsibilities of the media in reporting such events and the emotional implications for viewers. It is crucial to understand how continuous exposure to distressing content can lead to desensitisation, trauma accumulation, and emotional exhaustion.
English version
*En anglais seulement
Addressing Online Hate
The “Addressing Online Hate ” module developed by Project Someone and partner SERENE-RISC was launched on January 30th. This module was developed to enable libraries and community organizations to offer educational sessions and raise awareness about online hate.
Conflit au Moyen-Orient: Mitiger les impacts dans les écoles du Québec
[French only]
The violence taking place during recent events in the Middle East arouses feelings of horror, fear, sadness and anger not only among families and young people in communities involved nationally or religiously, but more broadly among all Quebecers. This situation can cause or fuel interpersonal and intercommunity tensions in schools. This short document from RAPS offers ways of understanding and taking action to support young people affected by the situation and to preserve a cohesive school climate.
CoVivre Program
The CoVivre program addresses the inequalities faced by marginalized groups through initiatives carried out with key players in the community, education and health and social services sectors. CoVivre acts as a facilitator and as an accelerator of initiatives aimed at reducing socio-economic and health disparities caused by the pandemic. More specifically, CoVivre aims to inform, protect and support marginalized communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Montreal area.
Ecole Citoyenne
[English only]
“Ecole citoyenne” offers intercultural courses during which students can express themselves freely in class. Normally, the school has little time to work on multiple identities, also because teachers and educators do not know how to do it. For this reason, “école citoyenne” allows to know and recognize identities and thus create a common culture in line with the civic values of equality, freedom, emancipation and mutual aid. In their project files, the focus is on the possibility of opening up a space for discussion for the expression of identity. Concrete projects can be found on their website below.
Educate Against Hate – Resources
[English only]
Educate Against Hate put together over 80 different resources, trainings and other activities helping teachers, parents and guardians to talk about topics related to discrimination, extremism, online safety or radicalization with young people and children. Each tool is described by key-words and can be downloaded as a pdf, word document or a presentation or visualized in the form of a short video.
EMPOWER Surrey
[English only]
The City of Surrey’s Community Safety section launched a new website dedicated to helping parents, caregivers and other trusted adults build protective factors among Surrey children and youth to reduce their susceptibility for gang involvement.
Called Empower Surrey, the website aims to enhance the impact of the Surrey Anti-Gang Family Empowerment (SAFE) Program and is available in over 80 languages. It features information on Surrey’s unique gang landscape, how to identify and address risk factors, tips and tools to start early conversations with children and youth, and links to free prevention, intervention and enforcement programs available to Surrey residents.
Evaluation Guidebook: Landscape Of Hope
The Landscape of Hope project team has released a guidebook to evaluating art-driven and resilience-based initiatives like their own, based on criteria developed by the Anti-Racism Action Program (ARAP) that prioritize the voices of Indigenous, racialized, and religious minority communities.
Extremism, Radicalisation & Mental Health: Handbook For Practitioners
[English only]
This handbook is not meant to be used as a risk assessment methodology, nor does it seek to offer a quantitative measure of risk and vulnerability. It also does not seek to offer a position on the medico-legal implications of mental health contributors to extremism vulnerability/risk. Its sole purpose is to aid in qualitative assessments, formulation and intervention planning and it is designed to be used as an adjunct to the appropriate, existent risk-assessment methodologies, intervention and therapeutic approaches, and mental health and counter-extremism frameworks and processes.
Guide comprendre pour mieux agir
[En français seulement]
“Le guide pédagogique Comprendre pour mieux agir, le présent guide poursuit deux objectifs. Dans un premier temps, il informe sur la radicalisation menant à la violence, notamment en sensibilisant le personnel scolaire aux multiples aspects du phénomène. Dans un deuxième temps, il présente les différents leviers qui existent en milieu scolaire pour promouvoir le vivre-ensemble, et suggère des pistes d’action et des outils. Ce guide donne donc au personnel scolaire les moyens d’aborder le sujet de la radicalisation à l’école.”
Comment traiter des sujets sensibles et de la radicalisation? Nouveau rapport du CEFIR
[Contenu en français seulement]
Le rapport de recherche Radicalisation, sujets sensibles et coconstructions des savoirs: une recension des écrits, détaille les différentes façons d’aborder des sujets sensibles, particulièrement la radicalisation violente, dans l’enseignement collégial. Ce rapport a été produit dans le cadre du projet de recherche et de prévention « L’extrême-droite au Québec : Acteurs, idéologies et prévention », par le CEFIR.
Les enjeux de la médiatisation des tueries de masse
[french only]
Cet outil vise à guider les professionnels des médias dans leur couverture des tueries de masse afin de contrôler l’impact de ce dernier.
List of Resources on Online Hate
This document lists 50 organizations that provide resources for practitioners who are looking for information on online hate in PVE/PVR. The scale of the listed organizations varies from large international bodies to smaller local initiatives.
National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence
The National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence engages with a variety of actors from police to community organizations to identify and prevent radicalization to violence before tragedies occur. There is substantial knowledge, experience, expertise, and evidence at the local, national, and international levels to rely on in developing approaches to countering radicalization to violence. In this context, the National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence identifies areas where expertise and capability exist, and how the Government of Canada and its partners are investing to enhance our collective strengths.
Online Exposure to Extremist Content – Toolbox
In this bundle, you will find a variety of tools made to synthetize CPN-PREV’s first systematic review, which overviewed and assessed the existing literature on online exposure to extremist content. Within these resources, you will find, the systematic review report itself, as well as pamphlets detailing the implications of the review’s results for both practitioners and decisionmakers. Another resource, available through this link, are two videos that detail both the results and recommendations of our systematic review.
Pamphlets:
Videos:
Systematic Review Recommendations
Reports:
Versions française:Dépliants:
Vidéos:
Résultats de la revue systématique
Recommandations de la revue systématique
Rapports:
OPV: A Grassroots Guide to Community Reintegration and Rehabilitation of Returnees & Their Children
[English only]
Public discussions have involved the returning of individuals and families who left Canada to join groups like Daesh in Iraq and Syria. OPV has prepared a short document that aims to provide recommendations and guidelines on the issues surrounding interaction with people returning from conflict zones, following involvement with extremist groups. The main goal is to offer practical advice on how to interact with returnees and colleagues from different sectors, such as media and law enforcement.
PROFILE – A Practical Toolkit to Understand Racial and Social Profiling and to Find Ways Forward
This practical toolkit was commissioned by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and developed by Project Someone at Concordia University. Designed both for individuals and for groups, it gives a chance to understand issues related to social and racial profiling, unpack this problem in marginalized communities and consider some solutions and ways forward. It is organized around five central questions and teaches empathy and creative thinking.
Signs of Radicalization – Training by the Centre for Child Protection (University of Kent)
[English only]
The Centre for Child Protection is providing trainings to help young people keep safe online. Their training sessions were designed to raise awareness about online grooming and radicalization. By providing some simulation techniques, participants will learn how young people can be groomed for radicalization via for example online gaming. These sessions allow young people to identify where online grooming may be taking place. They also develop their critical thinking skills and are encouraged to stay safe online. There are questions to each Vlog to generate discussion, as well as worksheets to gather evidence of teaching and learning.
Répertoire de ressources “Comprendre pour mieux prévenir : la radicalisation violente chez les jeunes”
[French only]
This document, developed by the RASP team at the SHERPA research centre, compiles resources of various kinds that can assist parents, teachers and professionals in their support of children and young people around the topics of difference, tolerance, identity, violence and terrorism.