ICPA2022 - PID091 - Pedro Liberado

Improving multi-level correctional staff competencies, enhancing multiagency cooperation, and building on top of best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: An overview of implemented initiatives and new practices on preventing radicalisation in European Corrections

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Pedro Liberado

Board Member, Chief Research Officer & Coordinator of Radicalisation, Violent Extremism and Organise, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal

Pedro Liberado is Board Member, Chief Research Officer and Head of Radicalisation, Violent Extremism and Organised Crime Portfolio at IPS_Innovative Prisons Systems. Pedro is a PhD Candidate (on hold) in Criminology at the University of Granada, holds an MSc in Criminology from the University of Porto, a PgDip in Strategic and Security Studies from the NOVA University of Lisbon and the Institute of National Defence (Portuguese Ministry of National Defence), and a BA in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Pedro is a former researcher at the University of Lisbon and at the University of Tampere. At IPS, he is responsible for the design, coordination, implementation, and sustainability of projects, mostly in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) within the criminal justice setting, contributing to the implementation of over 15 EU-funded projects related to risk screening/assessment; exit work/desistance; prison, probation and community practitioners’ training; multi-agency cooperation; among others. Pedro has published articles in criminal justice and P/CVE, and is also an invited speaker at international conferences, meetings, training courses and seminars worldwide, including collaborations with the European Commission, Council of Europe, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and INTERPOL. Pedro is a certified trainer, Member of the implementation team of the recently established EU Knowledge Hub for the Prevention of Radicalisation, Expert in the former Radicalisation Awareness Network Policy Support, LEICA “Law Enforcement in Central Asia” Expert, Full Member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association, American Probation and Parole Association, and the European Society of Criminology (and of its Radicalisation, Extremism, and Terrorism Working Group WG-EXTREME).

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