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Project HOPE – Holistic Radicalisation Prevention Initiative held
its 2nd Transnational Thematic Workshop on the 9th of December 2021,
in the scope of EEA and Norway Grants Regional Funds Week.
Organised by Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia in
cooperation with IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and Agenfor
International, in this workshop were also represented: the Council
of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
This closed event targeted at P/CVE professionals had the presence
of 49 participants from 18 countries to discuss the theme: “A
multi-agency approach to P/CVE in the Balkans, Southern and Eastern
Europe: The penitentiary system’s centrality and needs”.
After the welcome and event overview by moderator Ljiljana Palibrk
from Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Vlado Azinović
from the University of Exeter and University of Sarajevo had a
presentation focused on understanding the phenomenon of returning
foreign terrorist fighters and its impacts on the criminal justice
systems of Western Balkan countries.
The second speaker, Donche Boshkovski from the Council of Europe,
explored the results of the Council of Europe’s work regarding P/CVE
In the Western Balkans and spoke on the current gaps and needs
regarding P/CVE in the Western Balkans region, and necessary next
steps.
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