Less than four years ago, jihadist violence was widely believed to be in a state of terminal decline. Osama bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants had been killed, and the peaceful uprisings of the Arab Spring seemed to usher in a new era of free domand democracy in which…
This non-binding good practices document focuses on the ways in which education can be used as a resource and a tool by policymakers, teachers and educators, community-based and other non-governmental organizations (NGO), and families and parents to prevent and counter violent extremism. Education can be leveraged as a tool to…
The main objective of WP2 was to analyse the state-of-the-art in terms of radicalisation factors leading to terrorism and violent extremism, the projects and programmes used to tackle radicalisation leading to terrorism and violent extremism, and the methods employed to evaluate their effectiveness. From this analysis, a database was produced…
The self-styled Islamic State is an accident of history, emerging from multiple social, political and economic tensions in the Middle East and beyond. It has challenged the territorial divisions imposed on the region following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire by carving out for itself a large area of territory….
This evaluation is part of a broader effort to determine the effectiveness of community-based crime prevention, in contrast to the traditionally more common law enforcement, or mano dura (“iron fist”), approach to addressing the widespread crime and violence permeating Central America. The crime prevention approach attempts to address the root…
This report offers perspectives on the national and regional dynamics of violent extremism with respect to Kyrgyzstan. Derived from a study supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to explore the potential for violent extremism in Central Asia, it is based on extensive interviews and a countrywide Peace…
The UK’s approach to far-right violence has centred around anti-racism and preventative work, intervention with those on their way into groups, incarceration, and victims support. But the UK is missing a critical step in between: intervention with those already in far-right movements, to stop violence from occurring in the first…
There are growing fears among western governments about the threat posed by so-called ‘foreign fighters’ whose western citizens travel to far off conflict zones in order to participate as combatants. Although this process has a long and varied history in the West, stretching as far back as the Spanish civil…
Internet-driven self-radicalisation of the lone wolf is an increasing cause of concern for Governments and societies everywhere. A new paradigm is for countering self-radicalisation is suggested, comprising of five dimensions of Sender, Message, Recipient, Mechanism and Context.
This document summarizes the discussions on the lessons learned and future challenges of the Disarmament, Demobilizationa and Reintegration (DDR) efforts within the CVE framework held in collaboration with the Global Center on Cooperative Security in New York, September 2014.
This paper presents the results of in-depth research on radicalisation in Somalia, and identifies specific driving factors that counter-terrorism strategies should take into account.
Link to the official UN Security Council Resolution 2178.
