Situational Brief: UNDP Regional Stabilization Facility for the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) Region
This Situational Brief is the third in a series of four rapid assessment briefs commissioned by the UNDP Regional Stabilization Facility for the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) region. It explores the impact of COVID-19 in relation to the risk of recruitment into violent extremism by looking at the known drivers and triggers of extremism in […]
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Stories from the EU’s work around the globe
Preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) is a crucial aspect of the European Union’s approach to counterterrorism. Through its P/CVE initiatives the EU aims to foster peace, stability and security – around the globe, but ultimately also for European citizens. As violent extremism in one part of our interconnected world can easily have spill-over effects elsewhere, European security […]
Entry and Exit Points: Violent Extremism in South-East Asia
Violent extremism remains a significant challenge for South-East Asia, but in no country does it pose an existential threat. In Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, governments have the capacity to prevent it, while at the same time they should understand that it is unlikely to disappear completely. Whether violent extremism spreads, or is […]
Monitoring National Action Plans on Preventing Violent Extremism
This briefing paper aims at providing practical guidance to practitioners working to monitor National Action Plans on PVE to help ensure that the monitoring process and tools developed are aligned with emerging good practice and incorporate lessons learned from different contexts. It builds on UNDP and International Alert’s toolkit, Improving the impact of preventing violent extremism […]
Measuring protective factors against violent extremism
This paper builds on UNDP and International Alert’s Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DM&E) for Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) toolkit,i focusing on capturing learning on issues of measurement in relation to protective factors against violent extremism (VE). It reflects a desire by practitioners and policy-makers, national and international alike, to identify, monitor and assess what protects […]
UNDP Climate Security Nexus and Prevention of Violent Extremism
This policy brief explores initial lessons learnt from a climate security perspective of efforts to prevent violent extremism in politically and environmentally fragile contexts affected by climate change. It draws on recent country level examples, preliminary insights from UNDP’s work streams on climate security and the prevention of violent extremism (PVE), as well as an […]
Measuring the Economic Impact of Violent Extremism Leading to Terrorism in Africa
This study provides primary research on the economic cost and impact of violent extremism by looking at the economic cost of violent extremism focusing on 18 African countries. It examines the impacts of attacks on infrastructure and physical damage, formal and informal economies as well as the impact of ‘security spending’ on development processes. The […]
Conflicting Identities: The Nexus between Masculinities, Femininities and Violent Extremism in Asia
Violent extremism has emerged as one of the leading challenges to the realization of sustainable peace globally. Across South and South-East Asia, violent extremism poses a direct threat to inclusive development by fuelling intolerance, forcibly displacing communities, exacerbating cycles of insecurity and armed conflict, exploiting existing inequalities, and obstructing the enjoyment of human rights and […]
Measuring Mirco- and Macro-Economic Cost of Violent Extremism
This study provides primary research on the economic cost and impact of violent extremism by looking at the economic cost of violent extremism focusing on 18 African countries. It examines the impacts of attacks on infrastructure and physical damage, formal and informal economies as well as the impact of ‘security spending’ on development processes. The […]
Amman forum report
The Amman Forum, held on 18-19 June 2019, offered an opportunity take a deep-dive into issues of measurement, and to share experiences and learning and address some of the common challenges for researchers and implementers of PVE programmes. The growing body of evidence on violent extremism have started to influence individual programmes, yet knowledge is […]
