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🌍412,000 people directly at risk of radicalisation. 22 countries. 70 active programmes.

Returnees rebuilding their lives. Youth choosing opportunity over violence. Communities resolving conflicts through dialogue.

That's community-led prevention in 2025.

The evidence is clear tion is whether its scale will ever match the scale of the threat.

💐We are grateful to @EU_FPI for its support in making this report possible. To our donors, partners, civil society organisations, and the communities on the frontlines - thank you for your support and commitment.

👉Rooted in Communities — GCERF's Annual Report 2025 → gcerf.org/annualreport20……

@stefanomanservi @GCERF_ED @AusAmbCT @DanishMFA @EU_Commission @EU_FPI @Ulkoministerio @francediplo_EN @GermanyDiplo @AA_stabilisiert @ItalyMFA @MFA_Lu @cooperation_lu @DutchMFA @MFATNZ @NorwayMFA @SweMFA @SwissMFA @FCDOGovUK @CenterCve
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💡 What does it take to help people returning from conflict zones rebuild their lives?

👉 Since 2019, Central Asian countries have brought more than 2,000 of their nationals home from Iraq and Syria, making the region a global example of repatriation and reintegration.

This ra Azimova is representing GCERF, @Hedayah_CVE and @iijmalta at a national workshop on Research and Educational Approaches to Preventing Violent Extremism hosted by the International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan.

Yesterday, she presented the European Union-funded Prosecution, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme (EU-PRR).

Active in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the EU-PRR programme works on two fronts:

➡️ It helps both countries build coordinated, rights-based systems to prosecute, rehabilitate and reintegrate people returning from Iraq and Northeast Syria.
➡️ It helps returnees, especially women and children, rebuild their lives in their communities through psychosocial support, education, livelihoods, legal aid and work to reduce stigma.

🤝 Each partner plays a distinct role:

🔹GCERF supports and strengthens local civil society organisations working directly with returnees and communities.
🔹Hedayah provides technical assistance, advisory support and capacity development, including on national strategies and online harms.
🔹The IIJ strengthens the capacities of investigators, prosecutors and judges in terrorism cases and supports national legal and policy frameworks.

📖 Find out more about the programme and its results in the factsheet: gcerf.org/wp-content/upl…

Many thanks to the International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan, the Committee on Religious Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan and @UN_OCT for organising this workshop through the EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility and UNOCT’s Global PCVE Programme.

💐 Thank you also to the @EU_Commission, through @EU_FPI and the EU Global Threats Programme, for supporting the EU-PRR programme.
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👉 Register Now for the High-Level Dialogue Forum | 19 November

🎮 What happens when online spaces become more than places to connect, play and interact?

For many young people, gaming platforms and online communities are an integral part of everyday life. But these evolving n also create new spaces for harmful narratives, radicalisation, and the normalisation of violence.

As forms of violent extremism become increasingly complex, recognising emerging threats and understanding how they develop is more important than ever.

💡Bringing together government representatives, international organisations, researchers, and civil society practitioners, the Forum will create space to exchange perspectives, explore emerging challenges, and share practical approaches to early warning and prevention, focusing on Indonesia and the Philippines.

📅 19 November 2026 | Hybrid | In-Person in Indonesia or Online via Zoom
🕘 14:00–18:00 Jakarta Time (UTC+7)
🔗 Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The Forum will also be livestreamed on the Facebook and YouTube channels of GCERF and ASEAN-IPR.

💐 With sincere thanks to our co-hosts, @BNPTRI @ASEAN_IPR, Christchurch Call Foundation, @SPF_PR, and @UNICRI
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🎙️ Episode Six of Turning Points - GCERF's Podcast is now live ! 

💡 How can education and economic opportunities help people rebuild their lives after conflict and displacement?

In this episode, host Basile EMA EBEDE - GCERF's Regional Manager for South-East Asia – is joined by Aisah Ponce Macabuat, Project Manager at @ecowebph, to explore how education, skills development and livelihoods can create pathways to recovery and reintegration.

Drawing on her experience in Mindanao, Aisah shares how schools and Madaris (Islamic educational institutions) can offer children more than an education: a sense of belonging, stability and protection.

👉 Whether you work in rehabilitation and reintegration or are interested in how education and livelihoods can strengthen community resilience, this episode is for you!

🎧 Listen now on:
➡️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7hLpcN…
➡️ YouTube: youtu.be/perIjwT-K9U?si…
➡️ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/lea…

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🌍 Meet the 2026 Carol Bellamy Leadership Awardees

👉 Next stop: Middle East and North Africa!

The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award (CBLA) honours the legacy of Carol Bellamy, former Chair of GCERF’s Governing Board, by supporting women leaders and women-led organisations ent extremism.

Each award provides USD 2,000 for locally driven initiatives, with awardees identified and mentored by Torchbearers, local GCERF partner organisations.

🎉Thanks to @AuswaertigesAmt and Carol Bellamy herself, the award now reaches 24 countries in 2026!

Meet the awardees from Middle East and North Africa:
🔹 Iraq | Awardee: Afarah Ghalib | Torchbearer: Human Line Foundation (HLF)
🔹 Syria | Awardee: Mabader Foundation, led by Sahahira Ibo | Torchbearer: Salam for Hope Foundation
🔹 Yemen | Awardee: Afraa Hariri | Torchbearer: @ResonateYemen
🔹 Tunisia | Awardee: Sondess Sbai | Torchbearer: @ICCG_TUNIS

👇 Join us in celebrating these inspiring women and the organisations empowering their journeys.

More regions coming soon!
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❓How should support for children returnees evolve as they grow into adolescence?

💡We explored this question during the latest meeting of the Global Action Platform Working Group on Rehabilitation and Reintegration (R&R), bringing together 40 participants for an important exchal health, parental trauma, and the role of family-based support.

The meeting was co-chaired by Diadora Cërmjani, Clinical Psychologist and Project Manager at the Institute of Psychology, @Rektorati, Kosovo.

We were honoured to welcome three speakers who brought valuable perspectives and experiences from their respective contexts:

🔹Jeyana Ahmed, Program Manager, Salam for Hope Foundation, Syria
🔹Prof. Dr. Aliriza Arënliu, Full Professor of Psychology, Founder and Director of the Instituti i Psikologjisë, @Rektorati, Kosovo
🔹Iftikhor Karimov, Project Coordinator, Refugees, Children and Vulnerable Citizens (RCVC), Tajikistan

💐 A heartfelt thank you to our co-chair, speakers, and participants for contributing to this important discussion on children's mental health and the role of family support in fostering community resilience.
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🌍 Meet the 2026 Carol Bellamy Leadership Awardees

Next stop: #CentralAsia!

The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award (#CBLA) honours the legacy of Carol Bellamy, former Chair of GCERF’s Governing Board, by supporting women leaders and women-led organisations working to prevent Each award provides USD 2,000 for locally driven initiatives, with awardees identified and mentored by Torchbearers, local GCERF partner organisations.

Thanks to @AuswaertigesAmt and Carol Bellamy herself, the award now reaches 24 countries in 2026!

Meet the awardees from Central Asia:
🔹#Kyrgyzstan | Awardee: Kelechek led by Ursalieva Sabira | Torchbearer: @ToleranceF8208 (FTI)
🔹#Uzbekistan | Awardee: Nihol, led by Shirin Rashidova Afzalovna | Torchbearer: NGO Barqaror Hayot

Join us in celebrating these inspiring women and the organisations empowering their journeys. More regions coming soon! 👇
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💬 “Everyone in this room holds a piece of the answer. But no one holds the whole answer.”

This week in Accra, around 80 participants from #government, #security institutions, #communities, #civil society, artisanal #miners, #financial actors and industry came together for our ractice (#RCOP), “The Resilience Revolution in West Africa.”

The message was clear: resilience cannot be built by one institution or sector alone. It takes partnership, community #ownership and coordinated #action.

Learn more here ➡️ bit.ly/4zZYeDn
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📍 At @Hedayah_CVE Research Conference 2026 in #Malta, GCERF, Hedayah & the @iijmalta joined the @EU_FPI to discuss rights-based prosecution, rehabilitation & reintegration (#PRR) of returnees from conflict zones, with lessons from Central Asia, MENA, West Africa & the Western Balkans 🌍

L://t.co/O3dWC5gHwV
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🌍 A herder in #Mali. A miner in #Ghana. A trader in #BurkinaFaso. None of them stands alone.

Climate. Conflict. Livelihoods. Security. Resilience. Everything is connected.

🎥 Watch our new video:
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❓Can a livelihood be the difference between returning to violence and rebuilding a life

On 10 November, join GCERF for the third session in our Rehabilitation & Reintegration (R&R) online series, exploring how economic support can make #reintegration last.

Drawing on 10 years of experm practitioners in #Indonesia, #Kyrgyzstan, the #Philippines, and #Yemen, with a keynote from @UNDP, in partnership with the International Security Policy Lab, @UnivofDhaka.

Whether you are a practitioner, policymaker, financial partner, or civil society organisation, come ready to share insights and promising practices.

🗓️10 November 2026 | 🕘 09:00-10:30 CET
👉 Register here: bit.ly/48g5D5D
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📍 Sahel et Nord du Burkina Faso

RED+Sahel a sa première newsletter !

Un aperçu des actions menées par le consortium pour la résilience des communautés et la prévention de l'extrémisme violent. GCERF est heureux de soutenir ce travail.

À lire et à partager ! 👇

@cooperation_lu @MFA_Lu @NorwayMFA
Newsletter RED+Sahel - N° 1 Le premier numéro de la newsletter RED+Sahel est disponible ! Pour avoir accès à la Newsletter complète, cliquer sur le lien suivant : lnkd.in/p/dzrwcMGr Lisez, découvrez et partagez autour de vous ! #redplussahel #Consortium #crus
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🌍 Proud to be featured in @LeTemps

Our Regional Manager, Ms. Alessia Polidoro, shares insights into the complex and far-reaching implications of illegal gold mining (#galamsey) in #Ghana.

Beyond its devastating environmental and social impacts, #galamsey underscores the multifaceted risks shaped by entrenched interests, networks of actors, and interconnected risks that extend from local communities to regional stability.

Addressing these challenges requires moving beyond a narrow focus on illegal mining to better understand the drivers, enabling conditions, and wider security implications.

📄 Read the full article in Le Temps: bit.ly/3UNYZR1
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👉 Discover our report, The Shadow of Galamsey, which explores these dynamics and the links between illegal gold mining and violent extremism: bit.ly/3Uck8UR

The report also informs the need for a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder preventive framework, that GCERF has developed to address the multiple and interconnected challenges posed by #galamsey.
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🌍 Meet the 2026 Carol Bellamy Leadership Award Torchbearers.

First up: West Africa!

The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award (CBLA) honours the legacy of Carol Bellamy, former Chair of GCERF’s Governing Board, by empowering women leaders and women-led organisations working to sm and terrorism.

🤝Each award provides USD 2,000 to support locally driven initiatives that create positive change in communities. In each country, a women leader or women-led organisation is selected by a Torchbearer - GCERF partner organisations locally based who identified, mentored, and monitored awardees.

Thanks to the continued support of @AuswaertigesAmt, alongside additional support from Carol Bellamy herself, the award has expanded its reach to 24 countries in 2026 !

And the awardees from West Africa are:
🎉 Ghana | Awardee: Martha Inspires Foundation, led by Martha Anabila | Torchbearer: @norsaac
🎉 Nigeria | Awardee: Youth in Action, led by Maryam Hassan | Torchbearer: @murnakatsina

👏 Through their commitment to empowering women and supporting locally led solutions, the awardees are helping build safer, more resilient communities across West Africa.

👉 Join us in celebrating these inspiring women leaders and the organisations empowering their journeys! Stay tuned as we spotlight awardees from other regions in the coming weeks.

@AuswaertigesAmt @norsaac @murnakatsina
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👉What makes reintegration sustainable? The answer goes beyond security.

🤝Our new report brings together research, field experience and practitioner insights to strengthen the integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) into rehabilitation and reintegration programming.

It draws on insights from GCERF’s Community of Practice Seminar, conducted in collaboration with the Instituti i Psikologjisë, @Rektorati and @UNPeacebuilding in June 2026, and is also part of a series of R&R-focused events organised by GCERF, with contributions from practitioners across Iraq, Mali, Kenya, Kosovo and Kyrgyzstan.

💐Our sincere thanks to the authors, Prof. Dr. Aliriza Arënliu, Asst. Dr. Linda Hoxha, MA Diadora Cërmjani from the University of Prishtina Instituti i Psikologjisë and Prof. Dr. Stevan Weine from the University of Illinois Chicago, for their expertise and valuable contributions. We also thank the speakers at the June event for their contributions.

MHPSS is not a secondary consideration. It is central to sustainable reintegration.

Read the report here : gcerf.org/wp-content/upl…

@Rektorati @UNPeacebuilding
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🌍 Prevention starts at the community level. Sustaining it takes global commitment.

For over a decade, the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) has invested in locally led efforts to strengthen community resilience, rebuild trust between communities and ss the conditions that can lead to violent extremism.

As conflicts intensify and international cooperation and development resources face growing pressure, prevention must remain a priority.

📍On 21 October in New York, GCERF and @NorwayUN brought together Permanent Representatives and senior partners for Renewing Prevention: A High-Level Conversation on Investing in Peace, Resilience and Prevention.

👉 The lunch marks the launch of GCERF’s Third Replenishment, leading to a high-level pledging conference in 2027. It is an opportunity to renew political commitment, strengthen partnerships and mobilise sustained investment in locally led prevention.

Investing in communities today helps build a safer, more peaceful future for us all.

@NorwayUN @NorwayMFA @AuswaertigesAmt @EU_Commission @MofaQatar_EN @MinBZ @MofaJapan_en @KSAmofaEN @GCERF_ED @stefanomanservi
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