TNO, RAND and Israeli Counter-terrorism academy awarded €3 million EC “radicalisation and recruitment” contract

“SAFIRE” is a €3.6 million project funded under the European Security
Research Programme, to which the EC is contributing €3 million. The
project promises a “Scientific Approach to Fighting Radical Extremism”
and has the goal of “improv[ing] fundamental understanding of
radicalization processes and us[ing] this knowledge to develop
principles to improve (the implementation) of interventions designed to
prevent, halt and reverse radicalization”.

[neoconopticon.wordpress.com] The SAFIRE consortium is led by the Dutch military research
institute TNO and includes the RAND Corporation, the Israeli International Counter-Terrorism
Academy (ICSA, which promises “to adapt the ‘Israeli Operational
Philosophy’ to the most vulnerable of venues and complicated of local
problems”), Compagnie Européenne
d’Intelligence Stratégique (CEIS, the Strategic Intelligence
Company, France), Bridge 129 (an
Italian security company), several academics from Utrecht and Amsterdam,
and the Instituut voor Multiculturele
ontwikkeling (Dutch Institute for Multicultural Affairs). (more on neoconopticon.wordpress.com)