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The project C4C has the support of the European Commission DG HOME Programme ISEC
C4C PROJECT
While paying attention to the differences between the two narratives cases(4), our challenge is therefore to empower and disseminate a new body of literature concerning the survivors of terrorism acts, starting firstly from the European countries, but with the ambition to cover afterwards the entire world. Counter-narration for Counter-terrorism (C4C) is a cross national project, supported by the European Commission DG Home Affairs (ISEC program), started at the beginning of 2013, involving several private, no-profit and public partners (see partners page), but open to the collaboration of other interested subjects (see get involved page). Our project aim - through The terrorism survivors storytelling web platform - is to spread the stories of the victims to the general public and to specific target groups, by collecting, categorizing and giving ecollaborative tools and additional resources for the practical use of these narratives - for example, in educational programs for students and young adults, to empower people with a critical thought toward hate narratives, or to prevent people from becoming attracted by or permissive towards violent movements, or to de-radicalize people engaged into a radicalisation path.
FRAMEWORK POLICY
The framework policies in which the C4C project is involved and develops are: a) The Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN)(5), in particular the Draft Policy Recommendations for High Level Symposium by the RAN working group: Voice of Victims of Terrorism - VVT . b) The 'Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF)(6), in particular the Plan of Action on Victims of Terrorism.
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Notes
(1) William D. Casebeer and James A. Russell, Storytelling and Terrorism: Towa rds a Comprehensive 'CounterNarrative Strategy', Strategic Insights, Volume IV, Issue 3, March 2005 (2) Anthony Kubiak, Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion As Theatre History , Indiana University Press, 1991; Philipp Schweighauser and Peter Schneck, Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo, Continuum, 2010. (3) Ines Staiger, Assisting Victims of Terrorism: Towards a European Standard of Justice , Springer, 2009 (4) Speech by Luca Guglielminetti for the PLENARY MEETING OF THE RADICALISATION AWARENESS NETWORK (RAN) on 28 January 2013 (5) The Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN) is as an umbrella organization - established by the European Commission in September of 2011 - composed of local actors, professional intervention practitioners, research experts, policy makers, and civil society groups whose intention is to increase community strength and resilience in the face of the challenge posed by extremism. By design, the RAN is divided into a number of working groups, which currently include Community Policing, Deradicalisation and Exit Interventions, Inner- and Outer European Dimension (Diasporas), Internet and Social Media, (Mental) Health Services, Prevention (Early Interventions), Prison and Probation Services, and Victims of Terrorism. The collective aims of these working groups are to exchange experiences, knowledge, and good practices, and to draft policy recommendations for the EU and its member states. (6) The 'Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) is a consortium of nations including emerging economies such as India, China, Russia and 11 Muslim countries along with the European Union, New Zealand, Japan and Australia. It was launched by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 22 September 2011. GCTF is a major initiative to build an international architecture for dealing with 21st-century terrorism. It intended to provide a unique platform for senior counter-terrorism policymakers and experts from around the world to work together to identify urgent needs, devise solutions and mobilize resources for addressing key counter-terrorism challenges. The GCTF consists of a strategiclevel Coordinating Committee, co-chaired initially by Turkey and the United States for two years until 2013; two thematic and three regional expert-driven Working Groups; and a small Administrative Unit. The initial Working Groups and their co-chairs are: Countering Violent Extremism (United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom), Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law (Egypt and United States), Horn of Africa Region Capacity Building (European Union and Turkey), Sahel Region Capacity Building (Algeria and Canada), and Southeast Asia Capacity Building (Australia and Indonesia).
PARTNERS
Proxima Centauri s.r.l. (Leadpartner Technologic company) Torino IT Koinetwork e.g.e.i. (Linguistic and international dissemination partner) Paris FR Aiviter (Associations of victims of terrorism) Torino IT AfVT.org (Associations of victims of terrorism) Paris FR Kore Multimedia s.a.s. (Company for ontological development and content management) Torino IT
Associated partners: Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte (Local dissemination partner) Torino IT Citt di Torino (Local and international dissemination partner) Torino IT
The project C4C has the support of the European Commission Agreement Number: HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/4000002499
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