Author: lisa

To prevent violent radicalization and promote peaceful coexistence and interculturality, it is especially necessary to understand, on the one hand, the risk factors that lead a subject to radicalize violently, and on the other, what are the challenges that these people face to full integration, both in their societies of origin and in those of destination.

Within this framework, the CIDEAL Foundation and CIFAL Málaga, a training center dependent on the United Nations Institute for Vocational Training and Research (UNITAR), organize the training awareness course on “Coexistence, tolerance and prevention of violent radicalization”. This initiative is part of the Shabab Moutasamih (“Tolerant Youth”) program, carried out by CIDEAL with the financial support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

In this course, Javier Ruipérez, Director of Research and Projects of the Euroárabe Foundation, will talk about strategies to prevent radicalization together with Rut Bermejo, professor of Political Science, Rey Juan Carlos University.

The objectives of the activity are: to raise Spanish society awareness on the importance of coexistence and tolerance as the most effective strategy for the prevention of violent radicalization; to provide a greater understanding of the phenomenon of violent radicalization based on a greater knowledge of the concepts, narratives and psychosocial factors that affect radicalization processes; to characterize strategies for preventing radicalization and the role that international development cooperation can play and present some concrete experiences on preventing violent radicalization.

The course will be held in Malaga with a total duration of 10 hours. It is structured around 4 blocks, combining lectures, round tables and the presentation of specific case studies:

Module 1: Understanding the processes of radicalization.
Module 2: Characterization of radicalization prevention strategies.
Module 3: Experiences in preventing radicalization. What role for international development cooperation?
Module 4: Case studies.

The UNCHAINED project, in which the Euro-Arab Foundation participate, celebrates the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons joining the Blue Heart United Nations campaign coordinated by UNODC. This year’s theme highlights the importance of listening to and learning from survivors of human trafficking. The UNCHAINED project partners recognize the importance of involving victims and survivors in anti-trafficking action.

One of the particularities of this project, in which the Euro-Arab Foundation participate, is the focus on the key topic of financial flows into and out of these types of high profit activities, which allows to expose and prevent the range of actors and decision makers involved and their modus operandi. The follow-the-money approach is a necessary element to counteract THB and give survivors back their rights and needs.

The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies also joins this commemoration giving voice to the survivors  of trafficking and raising awareness about this serious violation of human rights that deprives people of their freedom by exploitaiting them under the most varied forms such as, sexual or labour exploitation, being forced to marriage or to commit a crime or, organ transplants among others.

“World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: On Invisibilities and Borders” by Patricia Bueso Izquierdo (in Spanish) for the blog of the Euro-Arab Foundation

Here an extract of the text translated into English:

“The demand for exploitation is increasing, sponsored by crimes committed on the Internet that favor the financial opacity of the profits obtained in crime, the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to the increase in the numbers and the invisibility of the people who are the object of about.

We would like to highlight in this regard that even today in 2021 new legislative measures are still necessary to jointly address trafficking in human beings, in order to be able to identify and detect potential victims early among the most vulnerable groups such as minors and / or people with functional mobility and with the aim of dismantling the business model of traffickers to which the UNCHAINED project contributes, also highlighting that the training of the agents involved and international cooperation with third countries are other necessary pillars to eradicate and combat this crime.

Let us take advantage not only of this World Day, but every day of the year, to create spaces for opinion and public debate that make this reality known by putting names and surnames to all the people who are being exploited daily next to us. Let us know to detect and not to discriminate, let us walk alongside these women and girls who like us want to be free and enjoy safety”