Violence Prevention Network

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Violence Prevention Network
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legal form e. V.
founding 2004
Seat Berlin
main emphasis Prevention, intervention, deradicalization
method Responsible education
people Judy Korn, Thomas Mücke
Employees 115 permanent employees, 16 freelance workers (as of May 2019)
Website violence-prevention-network.de

Violence Prevention Network is a German non-governmental organization working in the field of extremism prevention and de-radicalization extremist motivated violent offenders operates. At the beginning she became known above all for anti-violence and competence training courses AKT (registered trademark) in prisons and also operates nationwide counseling centers for right-wing extremist and Islamist motivated violent criminals and their relatives as well as prevention work at schools.

Violence Prevention Network receives the majority of its budget from funds from the European Union , federal and state funds, and donations. In May 2019, the organization has more than 100 full-time employees and had freelancers .

history

In 2001, the team carried out the first anti-violence and competence training ACT with right-wing extremists in prisons in the state of Brandenburg as a model project ("Taking responsibility - saying goodbye to hatred and violence"). This resulted in the development of what was later called the method of responsible education (registered trademark) and the establishment of the Violence Prevention Network in 2004. Since then, the organization has continuously expanded its cooperation with authorities and institutions, so that it now has a nationwide network. In 2006, the work was on the target group of Islamist youths at risk with and without an immigrant background in larger cities such as Berlin , Bremen , Hamburg and in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony expanded. Violence Prevention Network has been active in the pre-detention area since 2007. a. in the detention centers in Hamburg and Brandenburg. Since 2012, Violence Prevention Network has also been working in adult prisons with convicted criminals from the terrorist environment. The Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth approved the Violence Prevention Network as a federally relevant agency in January 2015 for a five-year funding for structural development with the focus on “deradicalization in prisons”. Violence Prevention Network has been active in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Berlin, Brandenburg, Hesse , Lower Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony since 2017 .

vision

The vision of Violence Prevention Network is that ideologically endangered people and extremist motivated violent criminals change their behavior through deradicalization work, lead an independent life and become part of the democratic community in order to prevent extremism of any kind. Violence Prevention Network works to ensure that people have tools and resources available to reflect on and overcome their previous behavioral patterns. They should be enabled to lead a life in which they do not harm themselves or others.

method

Responsible education enables a humiliation-free way of addressing people who have joined anti-democratic structures and enables them to return to the democratic community. The basic assumption of responsibility pedagogy and the anti-violence and competence training ACT is to enable people, through cooperation, to learn the skills that enable them to distance themselves from inhuman ideologies. This takes place in an atmosphere that values ​​the person and questions the ideology. The ACT consists of flexible modules of biography work, political education and anti-violence work, the Violence Prevention Network on different target groups (right-wing extremist and Islamist-endangered offenders) and different settings (group training, individual training, training in detention, training before detention, Training in heterogeneous and homogeneous group contexts, etc.).

Focus

Prevention

Violence Prevention Network brings young people who are at risk of becoming religiously or politically radicalized into an intercultural and interreligious dialogue at an early stage . In workshops at schools, the young people expand their knowledge, e.g. B. About Islam , but also about democracy and human rights . Another area of ​​prevention work is the training of multipliers (teaching staff, specialist staff from child and youth welfare, police, etc.) in dealing with extremism and fundamentalism in school and at work.

intervention

The "radicalization and de-radicalization prevention in prisons and probation" addresses with the anti-violence and skills training AKT both right-wing extremist youth at risk in prison and on Islamist vulnerable young people with and without migration background . With several months of deradicalization training in custody and subsequent stabilization coaching for up to a year after their release, the Violence Prevention Network enables participants to reintegrate into the democratic community.

Deradicalization / exit support

Violence Prevention Network starts with de- radicalization work when the degree of radicalization is very advanced and there is a risk that young people will endanger themselves and others, e.g. B. by leaving a war zone or after returning from a war zone. Violence Prevention Network addresses members of these scenes in order to motivate them to change through dialogue and to trigger processes of distancing themselves from inhuman ideologies. In addition to working directly with the radicalized, their parents and relatives are also specifically advised and included in the deradicalization work, with a focus on addressing them, motivating them and mobilizing them.

Networking

International work

  • Internationally, the approach of Violence Prevention Network, together with the project partners Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO) to was Northern Ireland and Hjulsøgårdfonden to Denmark transmitted.
  • Violence Prevention Network is a founding member of the Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN) of the European Commission and Co-Chair of the EXIT Working Group .
  • The managing director Judy Korn is a member of the Advisory Board of IMPACT Europe, which deals with the question of the effectiveness of radicalizing measures across Europe .

Violence Prevention Network Academy

With the academy founded in 2014, Violence Prevention Network trains other target groups on the subject of preventing extremism and deradicalization. These are security and investigative authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany , universities and technical colleges, companies and educational professional groups who are confronted with the topic in their everyday work. The offer ranges from advice, needs-based advanced training to university training modules. The academy started its work in April 2014 with the first qualification offers. Since 2017, the academy has had modus | zad also has a center for applied deradicalization research.

effect

According to a query in the Federal Central Register , only 13.3% of those violently motivated by extremists who participated in a deradicalization training from the Violence Prevention Network between 2003 and 2009 were arrested again for an ideologically motivated act of violence. In the same period, the national average was 41.5%. Violence Prevention Network thus reduced the re-imprisonment rate for violent criminals motivated by extremists by 68%. The Violence Prevention Network projects are regularly evaluated by independent institutions.

Awards

  • In May 2019, the Immanuel Kant Foundation awarded Judy Korn the Immanuel Kant World Citizen Prize for courageous efforts against physical and structural violence.
  • The nationwide initiative Germany - Land of Ideas named the "Advice Center Hessen - Religious Tolerance Instead of Extremism" on June 1, 2016 as one of the one hundred best projects of 2016 as an "Excellent Place".
  • The Humanist Association of Germany and Humanism Foundation Berlin recorded on 11 October 2015, two employees of Violence Prevention Network Mohamed Ibrahim and Shemi Shabat with Ossip-K-Flechtheim Prize from. The German- Palestinian Ibrahim and the Israeli Shabat go to schools together as part of the MAXIME Berlin project and clear up stubborn prejudices about the Middle East conflict in interreligious workshops for pupils and multipliers .
  • The Berlin State Commission against Violence awarded MAXIME Berlin the special prize of Securitas GmbH on September 17, 2015 as part of the Prevention Prize . With this award, special achievements in the area of ​​violence and crime prevention are recognized and supported.
  • The non-profit analysis company Phineo awarded the Violence Prevention Network and the program “Taking responsibility - Farewell to hatred and violence” with the “Act! Seal” on September 2, 2013 in Berlin. 23 organizations that campaign against right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism and for democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany were examined. With regard to the effectiveness of the program, Violence Prevention Network was the only organization out of a total of 17 award - winning non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to be rated as outstanding in all categories.
  • In 2011, the Robert Bosch Stiftung honored co-founder and managing director Judy Korn with her admission to the “Those responsible” network.
  • The initiative “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” recognized Judy Korn in 2011 as one of the “100 women of tomorrow”.
  • The Ashoka organization honored Judy Korn as an Ashoka Fellow in 2007.

Publications by employees

  • Dr. Dennis Walkenhorst is editor-in-chief of the specialist journal "Interventionen - Zeitschrift für Responsible Pedagogy".
  • The managing director Thomas Mücke is the author of the book "Seduced to hate: How Salafism threatens our children and what we can do about it", Cologne, 2016.
  • The co-founders Judy Korn and Thomas Mücke wrote the article: “Responsible education in the penal system and in probation. Deradicalization training for violent extremist offenders in custody and stabilization coaching after their release "in: Baer, ​​Silke / Möller, Kurt / Wiechmann, Peer (ed.): Responsible action: Practice of social work with right-wing extremist and endangered youth, Opladen, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. Annual reports
  2. Federal Agency for Civic Education December 14, 2006
  3. ^ Phineo Report
  4. (Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth - Federal Program "Live Democracy!")
  5. ^ Vision ›Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Prevention ›Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  7. ^ Intervention> Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  8. Deradicalization ›Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  9. NIACRO ( Memento of 4 March 2016 Internet Archive )
  10. Federal Agency for Civic Education July 9, 2013
  11. About us. In: IMPACT Europe. Retrieved June 3, 2019 (American English).
  12. ^ Academy ›Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  13. Study by Helmut Lukas 2012, p. 3, 20ff.
  14. Evaluation ›Violence Prevention Network. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  15. Home. In: Advice center Hessen. Accessed June 3, 2019 (German).
  16. Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas 2016 ( Memento from September 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  17. Humanist Association Berlin-Brandenburg - Press invitation: Awarding of the Ossip-K.-Flechtheim Prize ( Memento from October 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. MAXIME Berlin ( Memento from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ^ The winners of the Berlin Prevention Prize 2015. September 18, 2015, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Taking responsibility - Farewell to hatred and violence - Details - PHINEO. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  21. Land of Ideas. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  22. Judy Korn. Accessed June 3, 2019 (German).
  23. ^ Interventions in the catalog of the German National Library
  24. Seduced to hate: How Salafism threatens our children and what we can do about it Bastei Lübbe
  25. Acting responsibly: Practice of social work with right-wing extremist and endangered youth. In: Verlag Barbara Budrich. Accessed June 3, 2019 (German).