Addressing Online Youth Radicalisation in The Netherlands: Strategic Policy Recommendations for Prevention and Institutional Reform

This policy brief synthesises the assessments and reflections of fifty frontline practitioners, policy-makers, academics, as well as intelligence and law enforcement employees operating in the Netherlands to present an overview of and policy recommendations for understanding and addressing emerging trends in online youth radicalisation. Key recommendations include advancing contextual digital media literacy, promoting youth-driven, peer-to-peer-norm setting initiatives, with particular attention to youth who are neurodivergent, socially isolated, or navigating identity challenges, and strengthening institutional capacity for building nonsecuritised, developmentally-sensitive prevention practices.

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