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 Evaluating the Federal CVE Initiative
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Duke University
Award #
              2013-ZA-BX-0004
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Durham, NC
Awardee County
              Durham
Congressional District
              1
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2013
Total funding (to date)
              $470,481
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 13  Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2013, $246,493)
President Obama has stated that the best way to prevent violent extremism inspired by [al Qaida] is to work with the Muslim American community "to identify signs of radicalization and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence." This statement reflects the Administrations strategy for countering violent extremism (CVE), which calls for creating partnerships between federal and local law enforcement agencies and impacted communities.
This project will evaluate the contribution of key federal agencies community engagement activities to the national CVE effort. The plan for implementing the initiative will be two years old when this project begins. Yet there has been no independent effort to inventory what the federal government is doing or begin assessing the program's effectiveness. The project will fill this gap by collecting information on the engagement efforts being conducted by U.S. Attorneys Offices, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center. These data collection efforts will include a survey of U.S. Attorneys Offices and in-depth interviews with key officials to catalogue federal outreach and engagement work. The impact of these efforts will begin to be assessed through focus groups of Muslim American community leaders in three cities.
The information collected will aid CVE policymakers. This research will explore not only the engagement strategies that are being used, but also identify the barriers to more effective cooperation between the community and the federal agencies and ideas on how to overcome them. Improving CVE is especially important following the Boston Marathon bombing, along with other recent "lone-wolf" terrorist incidents in the U.K and France, which have highlighted the difficulty of preventing attacks by individuals who have few, if any, connections with international terrorist organizations and do not leave many clues about their intentions to engage in violent extremism. Building trust between the federal agencies responsible for preventing terrorism and Muslim American communities is a critical step towards gaining the types of information that could be used to prevent a terrorist attack.
ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2014, $223,988)
The Evaluating the Federal CVE Initiative project is designed to collect baseline information on the federal government's efforts to date to implement the national strategy for countering violent extremism (CVE) Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States.  Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also plays a significant role in executing the national strategy, it was not included in the initial project design. This supplemental award remedies this omission by examining the FBI's contribution to the federal CVE initiative, as well as capturing more contributions from U.S. Attorney Offices. The project team will collect information about the FBI's CVE efforts through a variety of methods: 1) a nationwide survey of Special Agents in Charge on their local CVE programs; 2) field visits to 8 FBI field offices; and 3) interviews with key stakeholders at FBI headquarters. Field visits will also include conducting interviews with the U.S. Attorney's offices in the same jurisdictions as the FBI offices field offices. This methodology will provide the project team  with both national data about the FBI and U.S. Attorneys CVE efforts and qualitative in-depth insights into specific programs. Both will be valuable in assessing the progress of the CVE initiative to date and determining the steps that need to be taken to advance this effort. nca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Engaging With Communities To Prevent Violent Extremism: A Review of the Obama Administration's CVE Initiative, Executive Summary
                  Engaging With Communities To Prevent Violent Extremism: A Review of the Obama Administration's CVE Initiative, Final Report

  
Date Created: September 19, 2013
    
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