Natrag Rehabilitation of Violent Extremist Prisoners (VEPs): exchange between prison staff from the Western Balkans region

Rehabilitation of Violent Extremist Prisoners (VEPs): exchange between prison staff from the Western Balkans region

The second regional Working Group on rehabilitation and disengagement from violence of VEPs in the Western Balkans (WB) region took place via an on-line platform on 09-10 June 2020. Mr Gianluca Esposito, Head of the Action against Crime Department of the Council of Europe, welcomed the participants from the six WB Beneficiaries and emphasized the importance of adhering to highest professional and human rights standards when rehabilitating VEPs and the necessity of ensuring holistic approach in the process of disengagement from violence.

During the meeting participants presented the rehabilitation programmes under development and the ones currently in use in the WB region per the Beneficiary, alongside with the challenges prison staff face in applying these approaches in practice. As a result, positive aspects of the various rehabilitation practices were identified, which will serve to pave the way towards identifying a more unified rehabilitation and intervention framework suitable for the whole Western Balkans region.

All participants agreed that, albeit differences among interventions in use, the challenges remain the same and focus on motivating VEPs to take part in rehabilitation, building trustful communication, adjusting the interventions to best suit the individual needs of the offenders and engaging external  stakeholders in support to the disengagement process.

This activity was implemented within the scope of the Regional Action “Enhancing penitentiary capacities in addressing radicalisation in prisons in the Western Balkans” that aims to contribute to regional security by addressing radicalisation in prisons and disengaging violent extremist prisoners from violence. Until 2022 the action will continue to facilitate and assist multi-agency partnerships to counter radicalisation in prisons and provide adequate post-penal support to released violent extremist offenders

This action is co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe within the “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022” and implemented by the Council of Europe.

 

 

Western Balkans 9 June2020
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Horizontal Facility III

Zajednički program Europske unije i Vijeća Europe pod nazivom „Horizontal Facility za Zapadni Balkan i Tursku“ (Horizontal Facility III) inicijativa je za suradnju koja se provodi od 2023. do 2026. godine. Program obuhvaća aktivnosti u Albaniji, Bosni i Hercegovini, Kosovu*, Crnoj Gori, Sjevernoj Makedoniji, Srbiji i Turskoj. Programom se pomaže korisnicima da ispune svoje planove reformi u području ljudskih prava, vladavine prava i demokracije te da usklade standarde s europskim standardima, što je ujedno i prioritet za proces proširenja EU-a.

Vrijednost ovog programa je 41 milijun eura (85 % financira EU, 15 % Vijeće Europe).

* Ova oznaka ne prejudicira stavove o statusu i ista je u skladu s Rezolucijom Vijeća sigurnosti UN-a 1244 i Mišljenjem Međunarodnog suda pravde o Deklaraciji o neovisnosti Kosova.