Community awareness of violent extremism and related issues

This indicator includes:

• community awareness of the causes of violent extremism
• risk factors for radicalisation
• the vulnerability of certain groups to extremist influences.  

Outcomes

This indicator supports an outcome of Diversion.  

Ways to measure

Ways to measure this include:

• a screening tool to be used by frontline workers as a checklist of key behaviours for identifying individuals potentially at risk of becoming involved with violent extremism
• Adapted Grievance, Activism and Radicalism scale  
• Focus groups or interviews exploring knowledge around:
  • causes of violent extremism
  • awareness of risk factors
  • most vulnerable groups.  

See the Countering Violent Extremism Evaluation Indicator Document [pages 81-85] for practical suggestions on ways to measure such as:

• survey instruments
• example questions
• using administrative data. 

Evaluations that use this indicator

• Thomas, P., Grossman, M., Miah, S., & Christmann, K. (2017). Community reporting thresholds: Sharing information with authorities concerning violent extremist activity and involvement in foreign conflict: A UK replication study. Research report.