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Blue Sky V: An Independent Analysis of UN Counterterrorism Efforts
This report, the fifth in the “Blue Sky” series, explores how the UN’s comparative advantage can be leveraged to improve the policy development, interagency coordination, delivery, and impact of counterterrorism and preventing violent extremism efforts
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Capture Technologies in Violence and Conflict Prevention
In this policy brief, Eleonore Pauwels examines how artificial intelligence and data capture technologies can be positively harnessed and potentially misused, as the new paradigm of predictive behavioral analysis and population data capture is increasingly
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Shrinking Space in the Name of Countering Terrorism: Why the United Nations Must Deliver on Civil Society Commitments
Without meaningful civil society engagement, the UN system’s counterterrorism policy, coordination, technical assistance, and advocacy risk causing more harm than good. This article argues that the United Nations needs to take its commitments to civil
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Cooperating With Civil Society to Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Violent Extremist Prisoners
This policy brief explores how government and civil society can advance their cooperation in the rehabilitation and reintegration of individuals convicted and imprisoned for violent extremism or terrorism-related offenses. It presents the current state of
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Enhancing Civil Society Engagement
This paper presents the key findings and recommendations from consultations with civil society organized in connection with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) regional high-level conferences on counterterrorism, in which UNOCT partnered with the Global
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National Strategies to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism
Using the guidelines of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism’s “Reference Guide: Developing National and Regional Action Plans to Prevent Violent Extremism” as a common analytical framework, the report is organized around the six procedural components
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Gendered Pathways to Radicalization and Desistance from Violent Extremism
This policy brief explores the drivers of radicalization to and engagement in violent extremism and the factors of disengagement and desistance among women and girls by examining cases of individuals that went through the United
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Desecuritizing Kenyan Youth: Young People’s Perspectives on Community Priorities in Mombasa
Against the backdrop of heightened international and domestic concerns over the vulnerability of Kenyan youth to violent extremism, this policy brief focuses on the hardships and priorities of youth in Kenya through the voices of
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