How to empower parents to make their children more emotionally resilient against extremist influences?

While trying to meet expectations in a challenging society, children may be dealing with questions surrounding their identity, such as: “Who am I?” and “Where do I belong?”. They may try to find answers to these questions with their parents, teachers and peers, but also on the internet. In their search for identity they can experience anger, injustice, sadness and more, and come across extremist ideologies.

Support and control from parents are potentially important tools to use to steer a potential radicalisation process. Research shows however, that parents feel uncertain about how to react when their children move toward extreme ideologies and would like to have tools to prevent radicalisation.

This up-coming RAN meeting will focus on how practitioners can empower parents to strengthen the emotional resilience of their children, and how to best support them to find suitable answers to questions that parents encounter (and what may be counter-productive).

The lunch-to-lunch meeting will take place in Rome, Italy, 16-17 May 2023.

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