Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund

MOSAIC workshop pilot

This project will train youth workers to have conversations with young people showing signs of extremist ideologies using the MOSAIC cards.

Digital Literacy and Awareness of Extremism

Three initiatives to support parents of people with autism and their support-staff to increase their own digital literacy and awareness of various platforms, extremism content, and radicalisation processes.

Increasing Awareness, Knowledge and Tools to Safeguard New Zealanders

This project will produce five e-learning modules designed to provide information to users on radicalisation and violent extremism, prevention approaches, referral processes and practitioner self-care. 

Educational Video Series

To create short videos for parents, caregivers and educators in Aotearoa that facilitate prevention and interception of hate crimes, violent extremism and radicalisation. 

New Zealand Online Violence Prevention Programme

Online campaign to connect at risk audiences and concerned bystanders with safe confidential support.

HeadSpace Invaders

An evidence-informed resource designed for 12 to 16-year-olds to empower critical thinking and early intervention when encountering hate, disinformation, and extremist content.

The Young Muslim Refugee and Migrant Resilience Safer Community Engagement Project

Participatory workshops to identify the areas of interest for Muslim youth, such as leadership, culture identity.

Strengthening New Zealand’s disengagement capability

A collaboration between two organisations to train a cohort of expert practitioners in NZ as a community of practice trained to work with individuals down a pathway of radicalisation to violence. Sustainability and future capacity ensured by training them to train others.

Building capability to respond to antisemitism

This project aims to upskill teachers and schools to prevent violent extremism through creation of lessons for understanding Judaism and the roots of antisemitism and develop tools to respond to incidents of antisemitism on campus.  

Understanding extremism to counter violent extremism

Develop a responsive facilitation guide to assist practitioners and provider-community organisations to support those in the community that are experiencing psychological distress and effects brought about by international conflicts.

Empowering critical thinking on the Gaza conflict

Develop a media literacy tool (a prototype app) to provide critical thinking lens on current conflict in Gaza and enhance communities’ skills to critically assess information.

4 for 40: a platform for social action on crucial global issues

This project aims to build community resilience against radicalisation by: a) creating a supportive community identity to reduce alienation and isolation that can be exploited by extremist ideologies; and b) promoting nuance and depth on critical issues for well-rounded understanding and challenge to extreme perspectives. 

Safer community and connector project for Waikato youth and families

This project will demonstrate positive alternatives to violence by involving ethnic young people to use their creativity and expertise to be peer role models and work intergenerationally to build an understanding of radicalisation/extremism.

The Peace Project

The “peace project” deploys a compendium of strategies that frame a responsive and holistic approach to preventing extremism and extreme violence caused by psychological harm, emotional distress, trauma and other social disparities that are often attributed as key factors that underscore the “pathology” that leads to radicalisation.

Paeringa o te iwi – Protector of the people

This project will provide regularly-updated resources with objective, holistic analysis of violent extremism throughout New Zealand.

These resources aim to be a touch-point for general and educational information about violent extremism and also an intervention. 

Project Harmony

’Project Harmony’ is a comprehensive initiative designed to empower the Iranian community in Aotearoa New Zealand, mitigating the impact of the ongoing international conflict and preventing violent extremism. The project encompasses a range of activities aimed at building resilience, providing tailored support, and fostering a sense of community cohesion.

Living Links: Global Roots, Local Branches 

Through regular gatherings, mentorship type programmes, and educational resources and events, this initiative counters growing marginalisation and unhealthy ideological shifts within the Muslim community.

This project adapted the NZSIS Know the Signs resource to provide family carers and neurodiverse people with information and tools to be aware of the risks of radicalisation and keep their vulnerable people safe.

This project will establish youth peer groups for community engagement within a specific demographic and develop youth mentors to be ‘thought leaders’ and ‘awareness- builders’ on the potential trajectory towards radicalisation.

This project will provide Muslim youth (ages 13 to 18 years) workshops (provided by the Classification Office) which include content on the harm of extremism from a faith-culture perspective. It will also teach critical thinking skills and other competencies to empower them to resist radicalization and extremist ideologies.

This project will deliver to teachers, youth workers and local councils/governments research-based workshop and training on harmful narratives around gender that proliferate online within an extremism context. 

This project will work on designing a playbook which will equip frontline practitioners with practical guidance for delivering positive online interventions to prevent extremist violence. 
 

This project builds capacity to counter racism as a pathway to violent extremism. This course offers an 8-week free public training on how to decide when to 'call in' or 'call out' problematic views when they are expressed, and provides original resources, practice, and a community of support.

Te Whakaora - Mentoring for High-Risk Youth to Prevent Violent Extremism

This project provides wrap-around holistic programmes and mentoring services to young men who have experienced multi-generational social and economic marginalisation and whose frustrations and internalised messages of hate have or may lead to violence and community harm.

The project offers real-life alternatives to negative online influences and provides evidence-based education promoting positive masculinity, mental health, healthy relationships to disrupt unhealthy gender-based social norms

A New Zealand trial of an online referral mechanism to provide community-led off-ramps for individuals who are embarking on harmful and potentially violent pathways. The project will build the capacity of selected New Zealand service providers to safely intervene with people at-risk of violent extremism online