This indicator can bring together a range of issues, including:
- community understanding of the scale and prevalence of violent extremism
- the causes of violent extremism
- awareness of the risk factors
- support for CVE-related programs
- support for the roles of different agencies and individuals delivering CVE projects.
Outcomes
This indicator supports an outcome of Resilience.
Ways to measure
Ways to measure include:
- focus groups and interviews
- written submissions.
There does not appear to be any published quantitative measure of community awareness of violent extremism.
See the Countering Violent Extremism Evaluation Indicator Document [Pages 46-66] for practical suggestions on ways to measure such as:
- survey instruments
- example questions
- using administrative data.
Evaluations that use this indicator
- More Than A Game Evaluation Report, McDonald, K., Grossman, M. and Johns, A., Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University, 2012
- Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S. Community-Based, Muslim-Led CVE Program, Michael Williams, John Horgan, William Evans, US Department of Justice, 2016
- Findings of a Market Research Study to Evaluate ‘The Point Magazine’, Horizon Research, 2018 (PDF 2.59MB)
- First Steps Towards Hearts and Minds? USAID's Countering Violent Extremism Policies in Africa Daniel P. Aldrich, 2014, Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:3, 523-546, DOI
- Moral Disengagement and Building Resilience to Violent Extremism: An Education Intervention, Anne Aly, Elisabeth Taylor & Saul Karnovsky, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2014, 37:4, 369-385