The Immunization Against Violent Extremism and Terrorism program forms a key pillar of the Moussalaha Center’s strategy. Its central objective is to foster values of tolerance while preventing the spread of violent extremism and terrorism within prison institutions.
This preventive program primarily targets common law inmates and is implemented through scientific methods and mechanisms defined by pluralism, integration, and effectiveness. It is guided by a peer education approach, structured around fundamental and rigorous axes:
- Building capacity of staff from the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration, along with intermediary scholars, on the theme of preventing involvement in violent extremism and terrorism;
- Selecting and training peer educators from among common-law prisoners, based on specific criteria, to address behaviors linked to violent extremism and terrorism;
- Creating training modules, practical guides, and an action plan to support the implementation of program activities;
- Overseeing the training of peer educators selected among prisoners within prison institutions;
- Providing continuous support to peer educators as they lead educational activities for fellow inmates.
- Involving graduates of the Moussalaha Center programs—former prisoners convicted under the Anti-Terrorism Law—in peer educator training. They share testimonies of their past adherence to extremist ideologies and highlight the mechanisms that enabled them to abandon such beliefs.
In addition, the program seeks to strengthen and safeguard the prison environment by fostering values of tolerance and rejecting extremism. This is achieved through interactive lectures designed to deconstruct extremist discourse and build alternative narratives. These sessions are led by experts and professors specializing in the following fields: