This briefing paper analyzes this new strategy from a gender and human rights perspective, drawing on the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) experience with Prevent—one of the four strands of its counter-terrorism policy—to elucidate the uniquely gendered challenges and opportunities that arise when governments seek to prevent or counter violent extremism (CVE) domestically., The U.K. experience is instructive both because of the extent to which the United States (and other countries) look to U.K. practices and because until its revision in June 2011, Prevent took the distinctive approach of explicitly and broadly including women in its delivery partnerships and activities., While this briefing paper focuses on comparing the U.K. and U.S. approaches, many of the observations and lessons learned are generally applicable to other countries seeking to adopt preventive measures for countering terrorism that comply with their gender and human rights obligations.