Young People and Extremism: A Resource Pack for Youth Workers
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This pack aims to help youth workers to increase their understanding of the issues and their awareness of the complexities. It must be emphasised that this pack – just like any other resource – does not have all the answers. Extremism and radicalisation, and how they impact on young people, are complex issues and there is no ‘one size fits all’ remedy that will stop young people from being involved in extremism, including violent extremism. However, this resource focuses on youth work as a practice that can enable us to respond to the risk of young people becoming involved. It highlights civic youth work, in particular, as a specific approach to youth work based on active citizenship that can help in reducing this risk…This resource pack offers ideas, examples and practical techniques through which youth workers, community workers, policymakers and those who work with young people can engage with challenging questions and better understand the context young people are living in. It explores the role of youth work with an international dimension, and of non-formal learning more generally, in responding to the risks to young people from different forms of extremism.