1. Conceptual Grounding in Countering Violent Extremism

This module clarifies the different violent extremism and countering violent extremism terms and concepts, the evolution over the past decade, and engages participants with key documents and resolutions, including the United Nations Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, and selected National Action Plans. This module lays the foundation for understanding the countering violent extremism field of practice and offers insights into the opportunities as well as the common pitfalls in this space and suggestions on how to avoid them.
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Violent extremism threatens to tear apart societies around the world. Our strategies to counter it shouldn’t as well.

We are excited to introduce our new training curriculum on countering violent extremism, available in English, Arabic, and Russian.

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This training curriculum was produced by Search for Common Ground in collaboration with Hedayah and generously financed by the European Union through the STRIVE Global Program.

This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Search for Common Ground and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.