Exit and reintegration processes of radicalized individuals

Duration
15.11.2023–14.11.2027

The project examines exit and reintegration processes of radicalized individuals and how welfare institutions can support the individuals in their processes.

Upper part of the entrance to Oslo City Hall. The towers and windows into the offices are visible on either side.

Photo: Sjur Stølen/Aktiv Oslo. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Contact

  • Stian Lid PhD candidate at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and is based at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet

About the project

Leaving extremism and reintegrate to a society based on liberal democratic principles is complex processes. The Scandinavian government’s strategy to promote exit from extremism and reintegration to a liberal democratic society is providing welfare services such as social, health and economic services.

However, we have scarce knowledge on how the target group experience the interventions and on whether, how and why interventions aimed to promote exit and reintegration have any impact.

By investigating the interventions and the exiter’s, their relatives and implementers’ experiences of the interventions, I aim to explore the impact of different measurements. The objective is to increase the understanding of exit and reintegration processes and how welfare institutions can promote these processes.

Method

In the project I will interview key actors within welfare services who are providing welfare service to radicalized individuals. I will also interview those that have received the services (exiter’s) and their relatives about their experiences of the provided services.

Objectives

The main objective is to increase the understanding of exit and reintegration processes and improve the knowledge on how welfare institutions can promote these processes.

To reach this main objective I aim to generate rare empirical data on radicalised individuals’ biographical stories of their exit and reintegration processes. By including the exiter’s, their relatives and implementers’ experiences of the interventions I aim to increase the knowledge on the impact of welfare institutions’ interventions to promote exit and reintegration.

Participants

  • Stian Lid Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet

Funding

Funded by The Research Council of Norway

Project number: 336618

The doctoral project is part of the research project 'Exit and effective reintegration of violent extremist in Scandinavia'. The project is led by Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) and consist of a group of five researchers in Scandinavia.

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