The purpose of the project is to map the reasons why religious and belief-based communities to varying degrees participate in additional education for religious and world-stance leaders (at the Faculty of Theology, UiO), what can lower the threshold and increase the breadth of participation, and what strategies and concrete measures can contribute to increased and broader recruitment. 

This is a research project in two parts: 1) an evaluation following a measure where young people exposed to negative social control, honour based violence and/or forced marriage - have access to mentors who are volunteers. 2) an examination of civil society projects supposed to promote negative social control and forced marriages. We are going to explore how organizations evaluate their measures and how users evaluate them. An important question is whether measures fit the ambitions of authorities, civil society and volunteers.

This project addresses how Muslim political thought in Europe is affected by societal structures, and, conversely, how the development of societal structures in Europe is affected by Muslim politics and activism.