Children in Crisis (CiC) began working in the juvenile justice sector through the provision of social work to children and families. In response to a series of events CiC began providing a much deeper level of support within the Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres (JRCs) aimed at targeting the level of conflict…
During January 2015 a team of 10 young people were trained by Insightshare to carry out an evaluation using Participatory Video combined with Most Significant Change (PV MSC) for UNICEF WCARO and UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire. The aim of the activity was to carry out an end of year participatory evaluation…
A practical guide to contribute to learning and growth of education for peacebuilding by focusing on key elements of program design, monitoring, and evaluation (DM&E) for education interventions with peacebuilding aims in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Presenting critical information, practical tips, resources and tools for all stages in program cycles,…
Facebook serves almost 1.5 billion people globally. Although the majority of people use the site for positive purposes, there are some who use the platform in negative ways. With that in mind, Facebook has created a set of policies, its Community Standards, detailing what type of content people can and…
Earlier this year, the conflict embroiling Syria hit another benchmark: the war’s number of foreign fighters now tops Afghanistan in the 1980s. Syria has become the training ground of choice for today’s violent jihadis. Though Jordan is one of the few countries in the Middle East region blessed with relative…
The aim of this initiative on juvenile justice in a counterterrorism context is to bring together practitioners and policymakers from a range of GCTF Members and other States representing a variety of disciplines to share experiences, explore good practices, and identify challenges in tailoring responses to threats of terrorism while…
On 23 September 2015 Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme joined with the University of Birmingham to host a roundtable discussing fighters from the North Caucasus and Central Asia and the Syrian civil war. The first session addressed the impact of fighters from the former Soviet Union region on the…
The recent Strategic Insights paper Security Through Aid by Anthony Bergin and Sarah Hately on the use of aid and development assistance to enhance security gives attention to important but currently neglected opportunities to counter violent extremism. Those opportunities can be broadly conceptualised as positive and negative: positive building of…
This film showcases the voices of three mothers whose children have been recruited to Syria. This group of women are courageously speaking out about the early warning signs of radicalization in order to inform and empower other parents against losing their children. These mothers are mobilizing against the threat of…
The document represents a historic achievement in global efforts to put youth at the center of peace building and countering violent extremism worldwide. The agenda discusses what is known about violent extremism currently, what is currently being done to prevent and counter violent extremism, the opportunities to partner with young…
This volume reports on the range of papers presented at the Annual Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Research Conference 2014 from 7-8 December 2014 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Conference was organized and hosted by Hedayah (the International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism), Curtin University, People Against…
This report presents the core findings of the stocktaking project. It highlights trends, challenges, and opportunities for implementing the good practices of the memorandum and for leveraging these practices to more effectively counter terrorism while promoting and protecting human rights.
