Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism

The Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism is a Danish governmental agency, which works to prevent and counter extremism in Denmark, both nationally, locally, online and outside the borders of the country. The centre also retrieves background information on different countries and events.

Thus, the centre supports the preventive efforts of national authorities, municipalities, regions, crime preventive inter agency collaborations, educational institutions, housing organisations, associations and others. The centre is also responsible for the collection of background information regarding the national sanction list on foreign religious preachers and the list of donors prohibited from making donations in Denmark.

The centre offers advisory services on handling local challenges and developing preventive action plans as well as training on a broad range of topics relating to extremism and prevention. The centre also carries out awareness efforts on appropriate responses to challenges of extremism and develops effective tools for prevention work. To ensure coordination of counter extremism efforts the centre leads a national coordination group, which includes relevant national authorities and associations representing municipalities and regions.

As a part of its tasks the centre, in collaboration with both researchers and other authorities, gathers and systematizes a broad range of knowledge. This includes gathering information on other countries, either specifically on request or generally, based on an assessment of the needs for information retrieval.

The centre is part of the Danish Immigration Service, and within it, there is an independent unit working with background information, including country of origin information (COI), used in the casework of the immigration authorities.

The centre was established 10 October 2022 when the former Danish Centre for Prevention of Extremism under the Agency for International Recruitment and Integration, together with the Division for Country of Origin Information under the Danish Immigration Service, became part of a new Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism.

Please note, that the website stopekstremisme.dk does not cover the centre’s entire range of tasks but only some of the tasks relating to preventing and countering extremism.