Leaving the past behind: building resilience to violent extremism through coordinated policies

Project title: Leaving the past behind: building resilience to violent extremism through coordinated policies
Duration of the project: October 2024 - August 2025
Donor: The program is funded by GCERF and implemented by the Counseling Line for Women and Girls

Outcome: Foreign fighters returnees and their families improve skills and capacities to reintegrate socially economically and emotionally
Output: Foreign fighter returnees build vocational skills
Overall objective: The objective of the programme is to change violent extremist views and behaviours of returning foreign terrorist fighters and their families, through disengagement and deradicalization, while providing a comprehensive support structure to enable reintegration into society and building of alternative narratives.

The target groups:
Men, women and children who have returned from Syria and Iraq.
Family members of RFTFs.

The program is implemented in collaboration with the Counseling Line for Women and Girls (CLWG) and the Center Against Violent Extremism (CVE), with the support of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF).