Baseline assessment for awareness raising and capacity building to use education to prevent youth online radicalization

With the study we seek to contribute to the growing research on online radicalization of youth by assessing the perceptions of the high school students regarding the cyber security threats and radicalization, especially radicalization that can lead to violent extremism. We do this through examining how and how much they use the internet, what content they access, what challenges and threats they face while online and what do they do when faced with such challenges. Furthermore, the task of the study is to provide data driven evidence-based recommendations and programs aiming at reducing and preventing online radicalization and cyber threats in general. The study is conducted within the project “Passage4Prevent: use of education to prevent youth online radicalization” supported by the European Union through Hedayah