Introduction
“Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) is usually understood to be “an approach intended to preclude individuals from engaging in, or materially supporting, ideologically motivated violence” (Williams 2017, p. 153) or simply as “non-coercive attempts to reduce involvement in terrorism” (Harris-Hogan et al. 2015, p. 6). The term CVE is now widely used in international and national counterterrorism strategies and policies, even though it was criticized as being a “catch-all category that lacks precision and focus” (Heydemann 2014, p. 1). The term was (sporadically) used as early as 2005 but became impactful in the United States around 2009/2010 advanced by Daniel Benjamin, at the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism under the Obama administration. Even though the Bush administration after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 had already introduced a “National Implementation Plan” including a pillar to “counter violent Islamic extremism” (CVIE), countering ideas...
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Koehler, D. (2019). Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_22-1
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