1 Introduction: the need for research in CVE policy and practice / Sara Zeiger & Anne Aly, 1
PART I: ASSESSING THE LOCAL PUSH AND PULL FACTORS LEADING TO RADICALIZATION AND RECRUITMENT
2 Western European Foreign Fighters in Syria: An overview / Peter R. Neumann, 13
3 Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Terrorists or freedom fighters? / Hamed El Said, 21
4 From Policy to Practice: Findings and lessons learned from a research-based pilot CVE programme in the Horn of Africa / Martine Zeuthen, 31
5 Assessing Violent Extremism: The case of Burkina Faso / Peter Romaniuk, 37
6 Terrorism/Crime Nexus in Central Asia: Implications for countering violent extremism & terrorism / Mariya Y. Omelicheva, 47
7 Right-Wing Extremism in Canada / James O. Ellis III, 55
PART II: COUNTERING THE NARRATIVE OF VIOLENT EXTREMISTS
8 Challenging the Narrative of the "Islamic State" / Alex P. Schmid, 67
9 Countering Online Violent Extremism in Australia: Research and preliminary findings / Anne Aly & Kosta Lucas, 81
10 Countering the Terrorist Narrative: Issues and challenges in contesting such spaces / Thomas K. Samuel, 91
PART III: DISENGAGEMENT, DERADICALIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF FORMER FIGHTERS
11 Testing the Notion that Prisons are Schools for Terrorism: Examining radicalization and disengagement in the Philippine corrective system / Clarke R. Jones, 101
12 Desistance and Deradicalisation - The case of Northern Ireland / Orla Lynch, 111
13 The Evolving Identities of Former Child Soldiers in Colombia / Ines Marchand & Myriam Denov, 119
14 Family Counselling, De-radicalization and Counter-Terrorism: The Danish and German programs in context / Daniel Koehler, 129
PART IV: INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY IN COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM
15 Research Summary: Lessons from a U.S. study revealing the critical role of "gatekeepers" in public safety networks for CVE / Michael J. Williams, John G. Horgan & William P. Evans, 139
16 Developing CVE Programs through Building Community Policing Capacities / Stevan Weine & Ahmed Younis, 145