Countering Violent Extremism: Building an evidence-base for the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism

This book contains a selection of papers which were presented at the international conference “Countering Violent Extremism: Building an Evidence-Base for the Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism” held on June 16-18, 2017, at the Hanover Congress Center (HCC) in Germany.

The conference “building an evidence base for the prevention on violent extremism” brought together selected researchers, practitioners and government experts with the aim of debating virtues and limits of “evidence-based practices” in the context of radicalisation and violent extremism. The National Center For Crime Prevention (NZK) and the German Congress on Crime Prevention (GCOCP-i) held the conference with funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

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