The alarming truth about Countering Violent Extremism programs: We don’t know what works

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"Regrettably, and despite over a decade of funding for CVE programs, there is no rigorous evaluation or evidence produced to demonstrate that these programs have reduced radicalisation and extremism. There is clearly a critical need for rigorous impact evaluation of CVE programs in order to establish their effectiveness and ensure that government investment in such programs is not better spent elsewhere.

The absence of CVE program evaluations is reminiscent of the situation over a decade ago for community-based obesity prevention programs. The problem was addressed to some extent by requiring those obesity programs to have an evaluation framework that could yield evidence on their effectiveness, with funding for evaluation built into the prevention program. A similar approach is urgently needed for CVE programs in Australia."