Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme

Lid, Stian; Winsvold, Marte; Søholt, Susanne; Hanse, Stig Jarle; Heierstad, Geir; Klausen, Jan Erling

doi:10.7577/nibr/rapport/2016/12b

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“…Norway operates through a decentralized system of public administration, with municipalities responsible for the delivery of welfare, integration and all social policy. Since 2014, four municipalities have interpreted the national Action Plan as necessitating OKGs at the local level -Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg, Kristiansand and Larvik 8 (Larvik Kommune, 2020;Lid et al, 2016). There is not a national system of OKGs.…”

Section: Norway: Okgs and Multi-agency Counter-terrorismmentioning

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“…Lid et al (2016: 107-108) note in their study that Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg were the first to develop OKGs and these coordination groups became important for coordinating casework, and developing and implementing measures in the management of returned foreign fighters and radicalized persons, as well as being a resource group for the municipality in terms of providing advice on lower-level cases. The work of Kristiansand's OKG leans more towards contingencies and their management (Lid et al, 2016), whereas others function more as resource centres. The PST contributes significantly to each OKG -but in different capacities.…”

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Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare

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2024

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This article explores the emergence of new counter-terrorism programmes in the Britain and Norway through which intelligence and security agencies administer welfare. Support and resources are covertly allocated to persons identified as potential threats, through multi-agency structures led by intelligence and security agencies. Unlike Countering Violent Extremism programmes, this multi-agency management is not led by the local municipality; nor are its participants asked to consent to participation. These new programmes are covert. To conceptualize the significance of intelligence agencies entering the space of welfare administration, Mitchell Dean’s work ‘Liberal Government and Authoritarianism’ is used to underline the traditional separation of agencies within liberal governmentality. Governing through freedom entails the ostensible separation of policing, education and care agencies – reflecting the categorization of the population into groups requiring varying levels of coercion to self-govern. To avoid governing too much, each category of population is allocated a specific agency. Traditionally, intelligence and security agencies have been positioned at the highest tier of repression. By entering the space of welfare administration (and thus social policy), intelligence and security agencies have disturbed the sectoral separation integral to liberal governmentality, leaving care and repression in an ever more ambiguous relationship.

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Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare

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2024

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Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences

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2021

Qualitative Social Work

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To prevent radicalisation and violent extremism, many European countries have adopted a multiagency approach, consisting of both police, teachers and social workers. Such strategies have caused concern for a securitization of social policy and stigmatization of vulnerable groups. This study aims at gaining insight into how Norwegian social workers involved in prevention work against violent extremism experience and manage role conflicts and emotions during interaction with their clients. This article presents findings from 17 individual and two focus group interviews which indicate that social workers experience emotional strain caused by role conflicts and emotional dissonance within a securitized field of social work. To handle these challenges, social workers apply a dynamic combination of surface and deep acting strategies, at both the reactive and proactive level, such as ‘Keeping a brave face’, ‘Character acting’ and ‘Adopting the client’s perspective’. Our findings contribute to expanding both the empirical and conceptual understanding of emotion management at work, and provides a novel insight into how prevention work against violent extremism is perceived by social workers. Also, in a field influenced by security rhetoric, our study gives encouraging new knowledge about how social workers can resist falling into oppressive and controlling practices by seeking to engage with and understand their clients’ human side, and relate this to their own lives.

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Managing the tension between trust and security: A qualitative study of Norwegian social workers’ experience with preventing radicalisation and violent extremism

Haugstvedt¹

2021

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In Norway, social workers play a formalised part in the national strategy to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism. This part is played out by engaging with other services and organisations, such as the schools, health services, police and the police security service (PST), in a multiagency cooperation. In addition, social workers engage directly with individuals who have been deemed at risk of further radicalisation and are tasked with providing prevention and follow-up services. Norwegian social workers’ experiences from the work to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism (PVE) have not yet been specifically explored. Thus, this study asks the following main research question: How do Norwegian social workers experience and reflect upon their engagement in preventive work against radicalization and violent extremism? To answer this, an explorative qualitative study was devised utilizing data from 17 in-depth interviews and two focus-group interviews, analysed through an eclectic theoretical framework to reveal new knowledge. Furthermore, the study seeks to contribute to a theoretical development of social work in a new knowledge and practice field, alongside police and PST. The study finds that Norwegian social workers performing PVE experience tension from conflict expectations. First, Norwegian social workers frame and approach the task of PVE as a social issue and lean on common social worker strategies, and trustbuilding, in particular. This is labelled internal expectations. Next, through cooperation with police and PST, they are expected to participate in a more ‘secretive’ practices, where sensitive information flows more smoothly, without clients’ necessarily being aware of this. Analysis of this cooperation indicates that several types of jurisdictional settlements between social workers and the police, and PST in particular, exits. Of these, subordination to PST raise the most apparent ethical dilemmas for social workers. This practice influence and expectations from policy documents are labelled as external expectations. The conflict occurring between these two expectations create tension in the form of emotional dissonance and person role/conflicts. To cope with these, social workers apply emotion management strategies (internal management) as well as social support from peers and support staff (external management). As an extension of social support, where social workers may become aware of how policy and other professional logics influence their practice field, this thesis suggests that social workers may communicate these challenges to managers and policymakers through an offensive policy directed practice. These findings contribute to the development of the role of the social worker itself, influenced by security logics and policy, and suggests how this can be dealt with through a clearer demarcation between what is and what is not included in the tasks and responsibilities of social workers in PVE.

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Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme

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Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare

Multi-agency counter-terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence agencies and the administration of welfare

Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences

Managing the tension between trust and security: A qualitative study of Norwegian social workers’ experience with preventing radicalisation and violent extremism

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