Washington D.C. | June 9, 2016
The Prevention Project, in collaboration with the George Washington University Program on Extremism, and the Global Center on Cooperative Security, brought together a number of government and non-government experts and practitioners from Africa, Europe, and North America to explore the challenges in and opportunities for facilitating and supporting effective “off-ramps” for current armed fighters and facilitating the sustainable reintegration to civilian life for former fighters, whether in the context of 1) rehabilitating and reintegrating foreign fighters and terrorist offenders; 2) providing alternatives to prosecution; or 3) preventing individuals showing signs of radicalization from turning to violence. Workshop participants shared examples of a number of “off-ramp” models in Somalia, Nigeria, Kenya, the European Union, the United States and Canada.