Posted on 09/13/2015 1:09:43 PM PDT by SJackson
U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Counterterrorism
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Engaging Civil Society in Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Estimated Number of Awards: One
Deadline for Submissions: September 18, 2015
SUMMARY
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) announces a Notice of Funding Opportunity for organizations interested in strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders and the reintegration of returning foreign terrorist fighters.
CT invites organizations to submit proposal applications outlining a project concept and capacity to develop and manage such a program across three or more geographic regions. In pursuit of CT’s goal of reducing the recidivism of many released violent extremist offenders, this project supports the following CT objectives: build the capacity of civil society actors for the purpose of reintegrating violent extremist offenders and returning foreign terrorist fighters into communities; facilitate relationships of trust among civil society actors and governmental civilian and security sector authorities as concerns reintegration and the creation of supportive interpersonal networks; draw upon civil society capabilities to counter radicalization in prisons; and formulate, validate, and share good practices in this thematic area.
The successful applicant will demonstrate capacity to leverage existing relationships with civil society and governments across the globe, as well as to collaborate with other entities to the extent necessary to meet the geographic scope requirements. Applications by consortia are welcome. An award is subject to the availability of funding.
All applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov or GrantSolutions.gov by 11:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on September 18, 2015.
PLEASE NOTE: CT urges potential applicants to register immediately with www.sam.gov and Grants.gov. Applicants are advised that it can take up to one week to complete SAM registration before it is possible to start registering for Grants.gov. Subsequently, it may take up to one week to register with Grants.gov (i.e., to obtain a username and password), for a total time to register of up to two weeks. Non-U.S. applicants will also require a NATO NCAGE number, a process normally requiring up to two additional weeks.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Through this NOFO , CT seeks applications that demonstrate organizational capacity to carry out the following project lines of activity, in order of priority:
1) Build the capacity, technical expertise, and networks of civil society actors for the purpose of reintegrating released violent extremist offenders and returning foreign terrorist fighters into communities, including engagement with law enforcement, probation officers, prison officials and other governmental entities.
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2) Facilitate the establishment of relationships of trust among civil society actors and governmental security sector authorities as concerns reintegration, and the creation of supportive interpersonal networks among key individuals.
3) Draw upon civil society capabilities to counter radicalization in prisons, especially with respect to legal services, counseling and basic and technical education provided to nonviolent, non-extremist offenders who may be falling under the influence of violent extremist ideologues and terrorist recruiters owing to comingling of inmates with very different risk profiles.
4) Formulate, refine, validate and promulgate good practices in the thematic area of reintegration into communities.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Link will take you to a PDF file, I only copied about a page of 8. I know people here will have ideas on resettling terrorists and it's an opportunity to get paid for it, maybe.
Two things struck me.
Under Obama we drone terrorists and their families, we don't capture them So what terrorists are we going to resettle.
They couldn't be talking about "refugees", could they?
A note, this is not for settling them in the US. I'm sure the State Dept would have included that if it was. I trust the government.
Could not locate the pdf file
Stanford involved?
Engaging Civil Society in Rehabilitation and Reintegration
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=277429
This must be a joke.
If I owned several hundred acres I’d submit a plan to “house” them with the government building the “houses”.
Seriously, the bankrupt cities will jump all over this. Detroit could use a few more muslims. /s
I didn’t know where to link it from, I saw it on twitter which I don’t think we can link here. If you do a search for the title you’ll find plenty of government grant sites which will have the link. Though I couldn’t find in on the State Dept site or I’d have used that. Don’t know about Stanford, but I’m sure most large universities would be happy to bid.
shared those two links out near end of July - at the time it seemed it could be related to closing Gitmo.??
Please tell me this is satire.
download from here? Click on “related documents” tab
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=277429
[. . . at the time it seemed it could be related to closing Gitmo.??]
Sounds like it would be Gitmo. But I’d imagine many of those detainees are under extradition requests from other countries.
i would tell folks my own personal “counterterrorism welcome,” but unfortunately, well ... a tragic boating accident occurred, etc ...
:-)
Thanks
I think the recidivism rate amongst violent criminals is near 70%. Higher than the recidivism rate among GITMO releases, which I think is in the 40% to 50% range. I'd rather pay for a study to reduce that.
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