Resource December 7, 2016

Meet the Journalist: Elisabeth Zerofsky

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Beginning in September, the Chateau de Pontourny will be used for France's first ever Center for Reintegration and Citizenship, a residential center for the prevention of radicalization. Image by Elisabeth Zerofsky. France, 2016.
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The French government is pouring money into developing new "deradicalization" programs for French...

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In September, the French government opened its first Center for Reintegration and Citizenship, otherwise known as a deradicalization center, at this eighteenth-century manor outside a small town in the Loire Valley. Image by Elisabeth Zerofsky. France, 2016.
In September, the French government opened its first Center for Reintegration and Citizenship, otherwise known as a deradicalization center, at this eighteenth-century manor outside a small town in the Loire Valley. Image by Elisabeth Zerofsky. France, 2016.

Journalist Elisabeth Zerofsky describes her research into France's new deradicalization programs. Unlike other Western European countries, France did not have any sort of deradicalization policy in place to deal with the increase in jihadist radicalization across the country until 2014. After some trial and error, the government opened its first deradicalization center in fall 2016, despite concerns about its experimental nature and the fact that methods of deradicalization remain elusive and challenging.

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