Who we are

• We have worked with over 3,700 individual cases of radicalised persons with different extremist backgrounds within prisons – and many more outside prison – to change violent behaviour and extremist mind-sets.
• Violence Prevention Network pioneers solutions for multi-stakeholder partnerships to prevent and counter violent extremism. We work with, support and train public authorities, prison and probation services, police and security actors and civil society practitioners to facilitate effective prevention work.
• Our unique case management process facilitates targeted cooperation between security and non-security stakeholders on a daily basis based on joint needs and risk assessments, security protocols, and effective communication and decision-making for tailored interventions.

Director

Jonathan leads our international department, driving strategy, business, and product development. He is a subject matter expert in P/CVE, having led teams in this domain for over a decade, delivering terrorism prevention interventions in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

Programme Director – Practitioner

Alexander is a practitioner in the field of violence prevention and reintegration, implementing disengagement programmes and providing individual support for radicalised and at-risk individuals. His work involves developing and managing new training measures, workshops, and seminars, delivering training for professionals in corrections and probation, and engaging with target groups through outreach work both online and offline. Alexander is also the Programme Director of INDEX – International Network for Disengagement and Exit, which aims to be the first global professional association for tertiary prevention practitioners in P/CVE.

Project Manager

Niv is an education and pedagogy expert and holding an M.A. in Holocaust studies. He leads our work on Project TRACE (TOMCAT), which takes a multistakeholder approach to tackle antisemitism and antigypsyism in the Visegrád 4 countries. He is also a senior trainer in the Violence Prevention Network Academy, and has over two decades of experience in educating, teaching and training. Niv previously supported our work in the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) through various events and training, focusing on RAN PRISONS Working Group, working on issues such as P/CVE training for prison staff, multi-agency cooperation and exit work. He was a project manager in the EU funded projects icommit and PARTES and is currently involved with EOOH project’s trainings.

Financial Project Manager

Chris works in Financial Management and Acquisition, where he contributes to the mobilisation of project funding and the preparation of proposals, based on his former experience working with international and civil society organisations. He manages cooperations with agencies at the European and international level and develops project concepts in the field of P/CVE.

Project Assistant

Ella works with Violence Prevention Network International. She holds a BSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, where she focused on online extremism and international security. Her research focused on the violent rhetoric of far-right groups on Quora and the impact of conspiratorial narratives in the US. She supports our work with the European Observatory of Online Hate.

Project Assistant

Adele is an MA student at King’s College London, studying Conflict, Security and Development. Before joining Violence Prevention Network, she worked at the Global Center on Cooperative Security where she conducted research and supported the implementation of programmes on a range of issues related to preventing/countering violent extremism and terrorism, including multilateral counterterrorism policy and countering the financing of terrorism. Adele holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Boston University. She is supporting our INDEX work.