Program Supports Rehabilitation And Reintegration Of Terrorism-Related
Offenders In U.S.





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ICYMI: CEP Launches The 4R Network

Program Supports Rehabilitation And Reintegration Of Terrorism-Related
Offenders In U.S.



(New York, N.Y.) – On November 16, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)
publicly launched theRadicalization, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and
Recidivism (4R) Network <[link removed]>, with a web event featuring
CEP leadership and international experts in a conversation moderated by Michael
A. Brown, deputy director of the Center for Prevention Programs & Partnerships
(CP3) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.



Hundreds of individuals serving jihadist-related or right-wing
terrorism-related sentences are scheduled to be released from U.S. prisons
between 2022 and 2025, yet there are no formal, in-prison recidivism reduction
programs tailored for convicted terrorists, nor a fully realized post-release
initiative to support the reentry and reintegration of terrorism-related
offenders.



The 4R Network seeks to address these gaps with what Deputy Director Brown
called a “first of its kind” program tasked with facilitating the safe,
healthy, and dignified rehabilitation and reintegration of violent
extremist-affiliated criminal offenders while decreasing the likelihood of
in-prison radicalization and increasing local resilience to violent extremism
over the long term.



To learn more about the 4R Network, register for members-only access to
trainings, workshops, videos, and other content, or inquire about support
options, please visit4RNetwork.org <[link removed]>.



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To watch CEP’s webinar, Launch Of The 4R Network, please click here
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Throughout the webinar, panelists discussed how to best reintegrate released
terrorist offenders and the trauma- and countering violent extremism-informed
approach that guides the 4R Network, which incorporates first-hand insights
derived from CEP’s one-of-a-kind in-prison/in-community reintegration and
recidivism reduction program,Alternative Pathways
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Networks.



“We reframed the way that we understood radicalization and changed the
question from ‘what’s wrong with you’ to ‘what happened to you’,” said CEP
program manager Dr. Juncal Fernandez-Garayzabal. “Rather than focus on the
ideology and not taking into consideration social and contextual circumstances,
this trauma-informed paradigm that we’re seeking to apply understands health in
a more holistic manner, and thereby provides a principle-based lens that allows
us to include structural, interpersonal, intrapersonal factors and thereby
meets different degrees of agency, role, commitment, drivers of radicalization,
and other variables,” she said.



To read the CEP publication, Alternative Pathways: A Trauma- and Counter
Violent Extremism-Informed Theory of Change for the Rehabilitation and
Reintegration of Extremist Offenders and Those Susceptible to Radicalization in
American Prisons, please click here
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To join the 4R Network’s community of stakeholders involved in the extremist
offender reintegration and recidivism reduction arena, please clickhere
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