Building Resilience and Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism

Description

Attendance is open to School Principals and Deputy Principals only

The training workshop ‘Building Resilience and Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism’, aims to assist school senior leadership to understand the phenomenon of radicalisation to violent extremism, and to increase confidence in responding to this issue. In order to support school leadership teams in this process, and in continuing to provide safe environments the ‘Building Resilience and Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism’ training will:

• Describe radicalisation to violent extremism in an educational context.
• Discuss myths about radicalisation and violent extremism.
• Outline why young people are particularly susceptible to radicalisation to violent extremism.
• Provide information to enable school leadership teams to respond calmly and appropriately to situations which arise.
• Explain what is involved from a young person’s perspective in walking away from violent extremism, and clarify the distinction between ‘disengagement from violent extremism’ and ‘deradicalisation’.
• Adopt a similar approach as taken with other school-based initiatives concerning and harmful behaviours (such as suicide, self-harm, child abuse, bullying etc.) where the goal is to intervene before there is any harm to anyone.
• Offer a framework for making structured professional judgments and providing guidance on escalation, using recent examples that Australian schools have faced.
• Outline the specific programs and initiatives in schools that already support young people, develop social cohesion and build resilience.
• Link across to jurisdictional specific education department led intervention policies
and protocols.

Building Resilience and Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism Training is intended to assist school senior leadership and is not intended as a general awareness guide for teachers or the wider school community.