Community-run micro-interventions may outperform government CVE programs

Evidence

In 2020, RAND published another evaluation of CVE programming—a “tech camp” training and a “peace promotion fellowship”—in the Philippines. To complement this evaluation, RAND also conducted a review of existing literature on CVE programming in the Philippines to provide future implementers with potential best practices. Although these two reports are highly specific to the Philippines and are thus difficult to generalize to other countries or contexts, they do suggest that, similar to one of the conclusions from the Practical Terrorism Prevention report, micro-CVE campaigns—meaning those run by members of the local community and targeting others in the community for outreach or intervention—may be better positioned than the government to counter extremism. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 218

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s test hypothesis about what changes adversarial identity — community/relational factors, not state authority. — connects to: Local, community-led CVE programming outperforms federally led efforts. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 213; Effective prevention requires coordinated interventions across multiple social levels — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 116; Grassroots backlash forced one group’s grant decline but most CVE funding persisted — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 408 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Preexisting social ties make intra-community monitoring cheaper than external oversight. #expands (0.78) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 207
• Grassroots backlash forced one group’s grant decline but most CVE funding persisted #expands (0.74) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 408
• Community-based guarantorship systems replaced direct hierarchical supervision at Bezalel #exemplifies (0.74) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 586
• Depolarization interventions can succeed while creating unintended harms. #complicates (0.73)
• Effective prevention requires coordinated interventions across multiple social levels #qualifies (0.72) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 116
• Micro-foundational safety does not guarantee systemic safety #complicates (0.72) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 131
• Controlled experiments may not predict real-world intervention effects #qualifies (0.71) — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard, 75