Document

Best Practices in
Reintegration &
Religious Rehabilitation
Muhammad Saiful Alam Shah
issaifulalam@ntu.edu.sg
Outline
1. Reintegration

The importance

Present model

Challenges
2. Religious Rehabilitation

The importance

Present model

Challenges
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Reintegration – The importance
• Positive outlook
• Conducive environment to promote change
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Reintegration – Singapore
Support
during
period of
detention
• Provide detainees’
families with financial,
emotional & social
support
• A case worker is
assigned to each family
• Facilitate in the
reintegration process of
the detainees released
under Restriction Orders
(RO)
ACG
Postrelease
support
• Provide financial
assistance and
counseling to families
until they are able to
cope
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Reintegration – United States
Infrastructure
Family
REINTEGRATION
Religious
community
State-Church
relationship
Source: Mr. Joe Pryor, former U.S. Bureau of Prisons
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Reintegration – Belgium
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Continuous education
Work-study job
Family’s welfare
Readily available institution
Source: Ms. Jessika Soors, Project Coordinator, Radicalization and
Polarization, City of Vilvoorde, Belgium
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Reintegration – Challenges
• State policy
• Civil society’s role
• Confidentiality
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Religious Rehabilitation – The Importance
• Confrontation (and challenging) of radical
ideology
• Disengagement from violence & radical
ideology
• Reintegration into society
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Religious Rehabilitation – Present Model
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Religious Rehabilitation – Challenges
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Defining religious authority
New ideologies
Indigenous programme
Network of scholars
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Thank you
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