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Building Networks & Addressing Harm: A Community Guide to Online Youth Radicalization
Healthy, diverse and cohesive communities thrive when everyone in them feels included, respected and safe. Adults who interact with young people have a crucial role to play in building resilient communities of inclusion. But to accomplish that, they need tools and support. Building Networks & Addressing Harm: A Community Guide to Online Youth Radicalization aims…
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Op-Eds & Media Appearances
The challenges posed by extremism in the United States today demand new approaches and new ways of understanding. Fundamental to this is an appreciation for the role that historical legacies of injustice and authoritarian hierarchy play in the emergence of extremism today. Preventing radicalization and extremism is not simply a matter of stopping violent behavior.…
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- Anti-Racist Education
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- Hate & Extremism
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How to Get More Help
Building resilient communities, caring for victim-survivors, and intervening to prevent radicalization are collaborative efforts. No one source can currently provide all the answers. If you are worried that extremism is taking root in your community, or simply want to learn more about what you can do to help, these resources will help you on your…
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- Anti-Racist Education
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Special Topics in Online Youth Radicalization
While extremism and radicalization follow many predictable patterns, there are countless variations among extremist movements. Understanding the unique characteristics of different extremist ideologies helps us spot them and then intervene effectively. PERIL and SPLC will continue to expand its work to offer detailed, targeted information about these different tendencies. Male Supremacist Extremism & Gender-Based Violence…
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Coachesā & Mentorsā Supplement
People who work with youth outside of the classroom provide an important link between children and their parents and caregivers. Coaches, youth group leaders, and mentors occupy a unique position of trust and responsibility in the development of young peopleās character and role in the community. This supplement to theĀ Parents & Caregivers GuideĀ offers youth workers…
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Counselorsā Supplement
There are few established approaches to treating extremism from a mental health perspective. This short supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide presents strategies for mental health workers to address radicalization in their practice. By drawing on established treatments for other maladaptive behaviors, and from the empirical literature of radicalization, it offers mental health practitioners…
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Assessments & Impact
It isnāt enough to widely distribute resources like the Parents & Caregivers Guide and the Building Networks Guide. They must also be shown to work, to improve the ability of parents and caregivers; coaches and mentors; school counselors and mental health practitioners to spot and intervene in cases of potential radicalization. PERIL and SPLC are…
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- Anti-Racist Education
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Educatorsā Supplement
Educators have a unique role to play in recognizing, preventing, and intervening in radicalization to violent extremism. And yet, they are also some of the most under-resourced workers facing these problems. This short guide for educators supplements the Parents & Caregivers Guide to offer strategies specifically tailored for the needs of those working in classroomsāboth…
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- Anti-Racist Education
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The Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Youth Radicalization
It can be all too easy for people to become radicalized without even leaving home. The proliferation of extremist spaces and content online has created new and powerful avenues for radicalization, especially for young people who are often the targets of radical-right propaganda. Thatās why, in partnership with American Universityās Polarization and Extremism Research and…
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- Anti-Racist Education
- Dismantling White Supremacy
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Preventing Youth Radicalization: Building Resilient, Inclusive Communities
SPLC and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) are committed to providing resources to the people building community resilience against extremism and for a more just and inclusive society. The following resources are intended to provide community- and victim-centered strategies to address the threat of extremism through early prevention and non-carceral solutions.…