Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Williams

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Political Violence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE).

Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which confront societies in virtually every region of the world; this text examines how we can prevent or counter violent extremism using a systematic, evidence-based approach. The book, equal parts theoretical, methodological and applied, represents the first science-based guide for understanding “what makes hate,” and how to design and evaluate programs intended to prevent this.

Though designed to serve as a primary course textbook, the work can readily serve as a how-to guide for self-study, given its abundant links to freely available online toolkits and templates. As such, it is designed to inform both students and practitioners alike with respect to the management, design, or evaluation of programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism. Written by a leading social scientist in the field of P/CVE program evaluation, this book is rich in both scientific rigor and examples from the “real world” of research and evaluation dedicated to P/CVE.

This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism, preventing or countering violent extremism, political violence, and deradicalization, and highly recommended for students of criminal justice, criminology, and behavioural psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
LEG I: The Bases of Hate and Ideologically Motivated Violence
1 The Ubiquity of Bias
2 Belief Formation
3 Culture, Norms, and Socialization
4 Threat, Grievance, and Dissatisfaction
5 Institutions
6 Biochemistry
LEG II: Program Design for P/CVE
7 Decide and Define What You Want to Do
8 Refine What You Want to Do
9 Determine How You Will Do It
10 Sustainability
11 Scalability
LEG III: Program Evaluation
12 Defining the Problem and Identifying Goals
13 Complimentary Planning/Logistics
14 Choosing Appropriate Methods
15 Evaluation Implementation
16 Reporting Results
Afterword
Glossary
References
Index