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Policy Publication

Private Policing and Countering Violent Extremism: Role, Contribution and Challenges

This workshop note draws from discussions held by experts at workshops addressing accountability of private security actors in countering violent extremism (CVE) …

Lynda Ouma 2021
Education Article

Impact of Unemployment and Lack of Education in Kenya on Al-Shabab Recruitment

Research on terrorism in Kenya often involved a separation of concepts contributing to the issue of terrorism. Researchers have focused on Al-Shabab …

Michael Hernandez 2021
Faith Article

Global Shinq¯ıt; Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge Tradition and the Making of Transnational…

Today, Bilad-Shinq ¯ ¯ıt. or Mauritania is often portrayed as an unparalleled center of classical Islamic tradition supposedly untouched by modernity. While …

Zekeria Ahmed Salem 2021
General Article

Gender and countering violent extremism (CVE) in the Kenya - Mozambique region

The diverse roles that women/girls can play in the context of violent extremism and the contributions that women/girls can make in countering …

Iffat Idris 2021
Human rights Article

Fragmentation and Grievances as Fuel for Violent Extremism: The Case of Abu Musa’ab Al-Za…

Violent extremism naturally benefits from any state of fragmentation. This article focuses on Iraq in a period of a staggering rise in …

Talip Alkhayer 2021
Gender Article

Centralising Women in P/CVE and Peacebuilding Programme Design

This policy paper provides a guiding framework for centralising the role of local women in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) and …

Kiriloi Ingram 2021
General Article

When Healing Turns to Activism: Formers and Family Members’ Motivation to Engage in P/CVE.

The involvement of former extremists or family members of terrorists in measures aimed at preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) has recently …

Jonatan Schewea , Daniel Ko… 2021
Education Article

Evaluating P/CVE: Institutional Structures in International Comparison

Preventing and countering violent extremism (P/​CVE) is an emerging field with a wealth of valuable experience but without proven recipes for success. …

Asena Baykal, Sarah Bressa… 2021
Policy Article

Armed and Explosive? An Explorative Statistical Analysis of Extremist Radicalization Case…

Extremist infiltration of armed forces, and the spread of violent radicalization among service members and former soldiers, are a growing international concern. …

Håvard Haugstvedt and Dani… 2021
General Article

Gender at the crossroads: the role of gender in the UN’s global counterterrorism reform a…

Since the early 2000s, the United Nations (UN) global counterterrorism architecture has seen significant changes towards increased multilateralism, a focus on prevention, …

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel 2021
Policy Article

Perspectives on Terrorism

The issue features ten Articles. The opening articles are from Thomas Renard and Michael Shkolnik, the two winners of the bi-annual TRI …

Terrorism Research Initiati… 2021
Faith Article

Discover Your Inner Strength: A Positive Psychological Approach to Bolster Resilience and…

The article reports initial attempts to evaluate a new positive psychological approach to bolster resilience among Muslims in the Netherlands. The approach …

Mark Dechesne, Jamal Ahajjaj 2021