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Sicherheit und Vielfalt in Europa - effiziente Qualifizierungsbausteine zur Radikalisierungsprävention bei Auszubildenden und Mitarbeiter/innen privater Sicherheitsdienste in Europa
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

All over Europe we have an increase in the importance of private security services in the public space. Hence, security and protection of people is more and more placed in private sector. If security forces have ethnic or religious resentments of certain target groups, we might have the result to have an unequal distribution of protection and security, discrimination, harassment or even violence.A sad highlight of possible riots was the torture of asylum-seekers by private security forces in German asylum homes.The study “Die Abwertung des Anderen. Eine europäische Zustandsbeschreibung zu Toleranz, Vorurteilen und Diskriminierung.“ written by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung headed by Andreas Zick makes clear that there will probably further incidents without a fundamental action strategy.The study also shows that prejudices, intolerance and nondemocratic settings are widespread all over European societies.This applies to the lot said 'middle of the population" as well as the even more concerned educationally deprived milieus from which the operational staff of private security services is mainly recruited. Concerned, the study describes in particular the proliferation of Islam enemy settings. This outcome is particularly political charged because of the increasing labour mobility and conflicts in Near and Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa and in this way the increase of the number of Muslims in European countries.An open-minded attitude and an affirmation to pluralism of the staff is needed by advancement and trainings. Public safety - in particular the German armed forces, but also the police - respond to these needs with civic and intercultural training. There are no comparable binding offers in the field of private security services so far.In conclusion, there is an urgent need for actions with the aim of preventing radicalization or even actions to make an intervention possible.The prevention of radicalization is to ensure by the development of training concepts for the education and training of private security staff. On top the project has to develop a seal of quality that empowers customers to assess the suitability of security staff in dealing with people with a migration background. Further customers of security services must have the possibility to assess the quality of institutions and the suitability of security staff in dealing with people with migration background.Training courses on the prevention of radicalization are intended for the operative working staff. The focus is on the work of and reflection on prejudice, as well as the strengthening of intercultural competence and ambiguity tolerance. To guarantee a precisely fitting conception of education modules the development of the curricula precedes a survey of about 300 employees from about eight companies in private security sector from five partner countries.The results of the surveys will be evaluated and processed. They form the basis of the development of the training modules and will be tested with the workforce of the companies. The innovative essence of this project is the base-oriented approach, which ensures a broad remedy of actual deficits and resentment of the staff through the consistent view of operational realities, the various education and training standards in European countries. For each partner country, there will be two trial trainings. About 60 people will be internationally trained. Of course, the respective senior executives and management as far as teachers for training and further and vocational education are involved in the development of the training modules.The combination of regional workshops and the experience and results of evaluation and training the companies and the employees made on the one hand and the transnational workshops include scientific monitoring on the other hand allows us to design precisely fitting trainings and standards not matter what difference the countries have in their education and training.A project Advisory Board, accompanying the development of the product and consisting of representatives of the employer Confederation of this industry and the corresponding associations/unions guarantees a maximum dispersion of project results in the industry to eventually develop the introduction of a quality seal for the new education modules in education and training throughout the EU and prepare a binding decision on it by with the European roof organizations, CoESS and UNI-Europe.

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