In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2016 following an EU wide procurement exercise, The Unity Initiative (TUI) was awarded the contract to provide mentoring services for a pioneering Home Office programme.
TUI continued to deliver until 2019.
In this period TUI delivered approxiamately 7000 hours of one to one intervention with the highest risk individuals across the UK.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
In 2018 to 2019 The Home Office funded 2.5 Million to deliver these services.
Considerable experience working with TACT / terrorist-related offenders both in prison and in the community. TUI has worked with over 200 terrorist offenders to date, also tackling extremism in the community and working with over 170 at the grassroots. They also work successfully with individuals subject to TPIMs and TEOs. The results with the highest risk cases post licence have been positive, with some now actively and publicly counter-propagating at the grassroots level on a voluntary basis in conjunction with TUI.
TUI has Academic credibility. Academic institutions including the Royal United Strategic Institute and The Combating Terrorism Centre based at West Point Military academy support TUI’s work. Renowned Terrorism Experts, Paul Cruickshank and CNN Terrorism Expert and Dr Douglas Weeks, Senior Terrorism lecturers at State of California University and London Metropolitan University view TUI’s ability in this field as being unrivalled and at the forefront Internationally. Dr Weeks based his opinion on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders in 2013. In-House Academic Support. Since 2013, Dr Douglas Weeks (mentioned above) has been a senior advisor to TUI. Dr. Weeks has a strong practitioner background (he served as his city’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1996 until he retired in 2009). During that time, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement in the United States and was involved in terrorism related criminal investigations, intelligence sharing and analysis, threat and vulnerability assessment, response planning, and policy advisement. He also has considerable international experience working with law enforcement and other security related governmental groups in Israel, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.
Experience of working with key stakeholders: TUI has experience of daily interactions with the Home Office and key partners such as the police, NOMS, security services, military and government both local and central. Conducting key stakeholder training across Prison, Probation, Police and Governmental staff.
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Presentation to Federal Bureau of Prisons at Rikers Island, New York
A lot of people want to give reasons why I did things. They want to find a gap or a void in my life, 'he did this because of that' but I don't buy into those things. I know why I did it because I was convinced on a personal level that this was my religion.
“We’re talking about environments where people are being stabbed in the throat at Friday prayers. Literally. When I‘ve got these guys coming in here, I am able to take that aggression and that survival instinct that they have cultivated in there and really strip it away, but also challenge their idea of themselves from a very healthy perspective.”
Over six months Usman Raja gave CNN exclusive access to his pioneering work; speaking for the first time about his work with former terrorists.
The BBC has covered The Unity Initiatives pioneering work over the years with exclusive interviews and reports.
The radical preacher, Anjem Choudary, has been sentenced to five and a half years in jail for inciting support for Islamic State militants. Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, Simon Israel.
Over the last eight years, Mr. Raja and his group, the Unity Initiative, have helped reintegrate more than 50 released prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses. He has counseled more than 180 young Muslims to shun radicalization, all of them referred to him either by members of their communities or law enforcement.
CTC Sentinel is a monthly, interdisciplinary journal that covers research and news.
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Interview with Dr Angela Misra
Deputy CEO
Interview with Shaun Greenough
Domestic and International Operations Manager
Interview with Usman Raja
CEO
THE TEAM
Dr Angela Misra
Deputy CEO
Usman Raja
CEO
Paul Cruickshank
Senior Counter Terrorism Advisor
Raff Pantucci
Shaun Greenough
Senior Academic Advisor
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Dr Angela Misra
Usman Raja
Deputy CEO
Operations and Strategy Director
CEO
Paul Cruickshank
Senior Counter Terrorism Advisor
Raff Pantucci
Shaun Greenough
Senior Academic Advisor
Domestic and International
Operations Manager
Word of Mouth
"From everything I have seen of Usman Raja’s work with former extremists – he has a remarkable success rate in managing to change the mind of those attracted to jihadist ideology. The combination of his strong, warm personality that offers brotherly reassurance, with a level of strength that impresses anyone who has contemplated physical jihad, and a deep seated knowledge of Islamic history and jurisprudence – means he is extremely well placed to connect with individuals who have committed or are contemplating acts of Islamist violence."
Secunder Kermani
BBC Correspondent
“The science behind disengagement and deradicalisation is constantly being empirically tested through the engagement strategies deployed by the Unity Intiative. By appropriating the tactics and strategies at the foundation of popular movements, Unity disconnects radicals from their violent prescriptions and reconnects them with humanity.”
Moustafa Ayad
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Deputy Director of International Technology, Communications and Education
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"Although passion and commitment is arguably a must in this environment, there are several things that must come together to achieve a successful outcome. Other key attributes include: street credibility, community credibility, religious credibility, and a holistic approach. During my research many of the.. (Intervention Providers) were found to be missing one or in some cases several of these
attributes. This is not the case with Mr Raja."
While conducting research on a large EU funded multi-country two year study of mentors working with terrorism offenders. Dr Weeks was introduced to the pioneering work of The Unity Initiative.
Dr Douglas Weeks
California State University
Counter Terrorism Expert
"The UK's most effective weapon against Terrorism"
"If it was not for Usman Raja there would be would be tens of Terrorists out there trying to Murder us!"
Professor Michael Clarke
Former Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Former Deputy Vice-Principal and Director for Research Development at King’s College
Specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee