TRAin TRAINING project
(Transfer Radicalization Approaches in Training)
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Dealing with radicalization: approach and exchange of best practices in Belgium
This seminar is organized by the Judicial Training Institute (Belgium) in cooperation with the ‘Ministero della Giustizia – Dipartimento dell’amministrazione penitenziaria’ (Italy), the Ministry of Justice – General Directorate Execution of Sentences (Bulgaria), the ‘Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore’ – Milan (Italy), the ‘Università degli Studi di Padova’ (Italy), the ‘Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale’ (Italy), the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Italy), the ‘Scuola Superiore della Magistratura’ (Italy), the Polizia di Stato (Italy) and with financial support from the European Union’s Justice Programme (2014-2020).
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Target audience
Practitioners in charge of prevention and combating radicalization (members of the judiciary (judges and prosecutors), prison and probation staff, police officers, healthcare staff, )
Objectives
To provide or update essential knowledge about international and EU legislation and the instruments available to prevent and combat radicalization;
- To exchange experiences and good practices in seeking to prevent and combat radicalization;
- To identify problems and to find tentative solutions;
- To provide practical information about deployment of the latest legal instruments for cooperation in the context of combating radicalization;
- To engage in reflection on the pattern of development of radicalization and on criminal offence policy on this
Date
Thursday 28 March 2019 (09.00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.)
Venue
Judicial Training Institute (Institut de Formation Judiciaire / Instituut voor Gerechtelijke Opleiding) Avenue Louise 54 (meeting rooms Bonnie & Clyde – 1st floor)
1050 Brussels www.igo-ifj.be
Comments
The working language of the seminar is English, with simultaneous interpretation to French. The number of participants is limited to 90.
The participants will receive appropriate documentation on the subject.
Contact
Mr. Thomas CORNADO – Training secretary – Phone: +32.2.518.49.68 – Thomas.Cornado@igo-ifj.be
Programme
Chair: Mrs. Ester NATUS, federal magistrate (Belgium)
8:45 Arrival – Registration of participants
9:00 Opening of the seminar – Welcoming speech
Mr. Raf VAN RANSBEECK, director of the Judicial Training Institute (IGO-IFJ Belgium)
9:15 The Jihadist Threat in Europe and in Belgium: an updated scenario
speaker: Mr. Luc VAN DER TAELEN, 1st superintendent at the Federal Judicial Police (DJSOC/Terro), chief of the CoPPRa project (Belgium)
10:00 Process and indicators of radicalization
speaker: Mrs. Delphine VERHEYDE, Rasmorad project consultant at the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Italy)
10:45 Coffee break
11:05 The approach of the phenomenon of radicalization in Belgium:
- Legislation
- Action plans and their implementation
- EU and international sources
speaker: Mr. Paul VAN TIGCHELT, senior public prosecutor, director of the Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment (OCAD/OCAM/CUTA) (Belgium)
11:50 Avoiding stereotypes
speaker: Mr. Michele BERNARDINI, professor at the Naples University “L’Orientale” (Italy)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Dynamic risk and resource analysis related to violent extremism
speaker: Mr. Jonathan PEROMET, deputy director of the Brussels house of justice (Belgium)
13:50 State of the art of the methodology applied regarding the approach of radicalization at the level of
the Flemish Community:
Mr. Redouan SAFDI, Islam consultant at the Hasselt prison (Belgium)
14:15 Prevention/intervention of violent radicalisation in practice
speaker: Mrs. Anissa AKHANDAF, Program leader PVE/CVE City of Antwerp (Belgium) 15:00 Coffee break
15:20 Exchanging of experiences and discussion of cases:
- experiences of two members of prison staff:
Mrs. Elisabetta CIAMBRIELLO, chief commissioner, prison commander of Rossano, and Mrs. Laura MILLER, coordinator commissioner at the Penitentiary Administration Regional Office of Florence (Italy) - experience of an investigation judge:
Mr. Davy JORDENS, investigating judge, Limburg Court of First Instance (Belgium) - experience of a judge in charge of execution of sentences:
Mr. Roland CASSIERS, judge in charge of execution of sentences, Antwerp Court of First Instance (Belgium) - experience of a prosecutor:
Mr. Maarten SOBRIE, senior public prosecutor, Antwerp Court of First Instance (Belgium) - experience of a member of the psychosocial service of a prison:
Mr. Nico BRASPENNING, psychologist consultant at the Ministry of Justice, Directorate General of Penitentiary Institutions, Psychosocial Service of the prison of Hoogstraten (Belgium) - experience of a justice assistant:
Mrs. Mira SWINNEN, justice assistant at the Antwerp House of Justice (Belgium)
17:00 End.