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.

This report examines the ISIS support network in Indonesia, how it emerged, who joinedit and how it has evolved. It also looks at the Indonesian government’s response. While thatresponse has been forceful, the government still needs to translate decrees into action. It hasinstructed prison officials to step up monitoring of…

This article seeks to understand the impact of religious diversity on religious tolerance in developing countries and draws lessons from the case of Nigeria. Religious diversity has appeared to prompt religious intolerance in Nigeria when we view the country from a distance. However, this article reveals important subnational variation. Using…

This chapter is part of a book dedicated to the memory of Professor Philip Taylor. It critically reviews existing assessments about the role of media and communication technologies in the current phenomenon of international terrorism. It demonstrates that most approaches are based on either flawed assumptions or outdated theories. It…

This document, the Government’s 2014 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada, examines major international and domestic terrorism-related developments during 2013 and early 2014. It highlights two alleged terrorist plots that resulted in arrests in Canada. It also describes several cases where individuals left Canada to participate in terrorism-related…