Tocqueville Challenge

AUP undergraduates Stephanie Bergon, Fatimata-Atty Germaine Djibrine, and Emma Richardson are competing in the 2022 Tocqueville Challenge with a project that was designed in the fall 2021 session of the CCDS Democracy Lab.  The Challenge offers students a chance to practice civic engagement via real-life problem solving, all the while building lasting relationships with mentors and organizations from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Sponsored by the Tocqueville Foundation, the Challenge seeks to inspire a desire for engagement and passion in its competing teams by providing hands-on opportunities to explore and design viable solutions to specific societal challenges within the context of civic service.

The team from AUP is putting forth a project, Ressources Familiales sur la Radicalisation, designed to assist the families of those incarcerated as a result of radicalization. Using testimonials, educational tools, and reading materials, the purpose of the project is to create a network that connects families to different support systems. The project’s aim is to incorporate family support as an integral role of de-radicalization and evaluate how it could be effectively used as a tool. Results of the Challenge will be published in May 2022. We expect that AUP students will have the opportunity to participate in subsequent Challenges.