This policy brief establishes a framework to develop and evaluate National Action Plans (NAPs) on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Based on the key good practice components identified in the international literature on NAPs across policy fields ranging from sustainable development to tuberculosis control, this framework aims to improve…

UK’s response to counter-terrorism is built on an approach that unites the public and private sectors, communities, citizens and overseas partners around the single purpose to leave no safe space for terrorists to recruit or act. Our strategy, CONTEST, is the framework that enables us to organise this work to…

The Extremism Research Forum is a UK government funded research project , examining drivers of radicalization and violent extremism in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The research commenced in 2017, exploring a range of themes and topics with key stakeholders within communities,…

This report calls on data from the largest collection of interviews with foreign fighters and those closest to them. It combines data from open-ended interviews with 43 parents, siblings, and friends of 30 men and women who travelled to Syria and Iraq.

At its core, peacebuilding work seeks to rebuild social relations and bridge identity divides while working through issues of marginalization and political grievances, often in areas afflicted by violent conflict. In 2013, drawing on more than thirty years of peacebuilding and conflict-resolution approaches, the US Institute of Peace (USIP) began…

El yihadismo global ya no es, en España, una amenaza que fundamentalmente proviene del exterior y se relaciona con extranjeros. La nacionalidad o el país de nacimiento de los yihadistas detenidos o muertos en nuestro país entre 2013 y 2017 revelan que el componente autóctono de dicho fenómeno tiene una…

This occasional paper examines the factors contributing to radicalisation and violent extremism among labour migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan in Russia. The researchers conducted 218 interviews (67 Uzbeks, 83 Kyrgyz, and 68 Tajiks) with migrant labour workers, experts, and local officials in thirteen cities across seven areas in Russia….

This document provides a final overview of the implementation of the Action Plan on “The fight against violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism” (2015-2017), adopted at the 125th Session of the Committee of Ministers (Brussels, 19 May 2015, document CM(2015)74addfinal). Interim reports had been presented at the 126th and…

Labour migration from the Republic of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation is mutually beneficial, at least for the foreseeable future. For Tajikistan, it allows solving serious problems with unemployment and thus contributes to mitigating the severity of domestic social and economic problems. Russia uses migrants to fill the demand for…

The Fragile States Index, produced by The Fund for Peace, is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are pushing a state towards the brink of failure. By highlighting pertinent issues in weak and failing states,…

Terrorism researchers have long sought to identify methods for challenging terrorist ideologies. The construction and dissemination of counternarratives has begun to receive substantial attention as a means of doing so. However, the effectiveness of this approach is contingent on message targets’ trust in the counternarrative’s content and source. This article…

This article applies a dialogical analysis to the change processes involved in moving from engagement with to disengagement from an armed militant group, as well as from radicalization to deradicalization. The findings underline the interplay between different push and pull factors at individual, organizational, and societal levels that played a…