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This article outlines the policy recommendations for addressing radicalisation in Northeast Syria. The findings will reflect on how ongoing implementation from local partners, adopting and refining their use of the Early Warning & Early Response System can help create concrete and meaningful policy direction to tackle issues stemming from radicalisation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Norwegian People\u2019s Aid (NPA), in collaboration with local partners in Northeast Syria (NES) developed an Early Warning & Early Response System (EWERS) that has been specifically designed to work as an alarm bell to warn local partner NGOs about the rise of violent extremist radicalisation in the hyper-local settings where they work. The development of this policy brief has resulted from a review of the EWERS operability, interviews with implementing partners, NPA staff, and EWERS developers as well as an in-depth review of the situation reviews in NES. Further review of local partners\u2019 proposed programme activities to tackle the EWERS identified signs of radicalisation has occurred.<\/p>\n

Areas of most concern regarding radicalisation in NES is the increasing return and reintegration into local areas of persons who were family of Islamic State (IS) members. This is a wide remit relating to post-conflict social cohesion that requires a narrowing down to two policy areas:<\/span><\/p>\n

      1.<\/span>\t<\/span>The attitude of the community towards family members of former IS members.<\/span><\/p>\n

     2.\t<\/span>The status and vulnerability of women and children in the post-IS period, particularly for those retaining stateless legal status.<\/p>\n

Recommendations for these two policy strands will cover how the local partners can continue to use and adapt the EWERS and the approaches in which they should be supported. The policy recommendations will be drawn and synthesised from the best practices of exit work of formers and cohesion in post-conflict settings.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Upon reviewing evidence derived from scholarly work, INGO reports and local partner reports, the NES\u2019s current context is fragile, and several drivers exist that could lead to recidivism of returned IS members, or radicalisation of new community members. Best practices of deradicalisation programmes are when they account for the norms and values of the reintegrating community and work within those boundaries, in other words, we can secure community resilience to radicalisation through social movement and cohesion.  This acknowledgement comes with the understanding local partner NGOs cannot provide all the needed policy and programme changes by themselves<\/b> to create comprehensive social cohesion, particularly in Syria where there is an absence of a formalised national peace and governance plan, prison rehabilitation, economic development of NES and the competing security mandates.<\/p>\n

However, we present areas in which local partners can contribute towards greater social movements in tackling radicalisation and the positive is that a grassroots approach from NES NGOs will be agile and crucially, take better account of the context.   The pillars on which the local partners build a policy response in the next phase are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n