Atlantic Council of Montenegro carried out a research entitled “The Role of Youth in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans”, after the workshop held on that topic.

The research emphasizes the issues of understanding instigators driving the young people to join extremism organizations, incentives for leaving to the foreign battlefields, and influences, primarily of the social media, on the recruitment of the youth.
The objectives of the research are identifying the problem, looking for a solution, training for an early identification of the radicalization symptoms and raising awareness of the young people about the threats arising from that phenomenon, with a special focus on Montenegro and the Western Balkans.

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