Psychosocial Prevention Programs against Radicalization and Extremism: A Meta-Analysis of Outcome Evaluations

Jugl, Irina; Lösel, Friedrich; Bender, Doris; King, Sonja

doi:10.5093/ejpalc2021a6

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“…Despite the strong interest in recruitment to terrorism, and the large number of counterradicalization programs that have been developed to reduce recruitment, there is little knowledge about whether such programs actually have the desired impact. In a review of counterradicalization programs, Jugl et al (2020) identify six evaluations of programs that focus primarily on efforts to reduce radicalization. These programs generally focus on targeting attitudinally oriented factors, with the goal of reducing radicalization.…”

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“…In a review of counter‐radicalization programs, Jugl et al. (2020) identify six evaluations of programs that focus primarily on efforts to reduce radicalization. These programs generally focus on targeting attitudinally oriented factors, with the goal of reducing radicalization.…”

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“…Only two of the studies had a control condition compared to the intervention. None of these studies examined recruitment to terrorism (Jugl et al., 2020). A recent qualitative synthesis of evidence on risk of radicalization also examined diversionary programs, including employment programs, and concluded that such programs demonstrated mostly positive outcomes, including reducing vulnerability to recruitment (Hassan et al., 2021).…”

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“…Although there is a strong research literature that examines the relationship between risk factors and radicalization (see Wolfowicz et al, 2020Wolfowicz et al, , 2021, we have little solid evidence regarding whether counter-radicalization programs will actually reduce radical attitudes or recruitment to terrorist groups (Gielen, 2019;Koehler & Fiebig, 2019;Pisoui & Ahmed, 2016). There are few evaluations of counter-radicalization programs, and they are generally of low methodological quality (see Jugl et al, 2020). In turn, we are not aware of any quantitative evaluations of programs that seek to reduce recruitment.…”

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What is the best approach for preventing recruitment to terrorism? Findings from ABM experiments in social and situational prevention

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This study uses agent-based models (ABMs) to compare the impacts of three different types of interventions targeting recruitment to terrorism-community workers at community centers; community-oriented policing; and an employment program for high-risk agents. The first two programs are social interventions that focus on de-radicalization and changing the dispositions of agents in the model, whereas the employment program focuses on "deflection" and represents a situational/opportunity reducing approach to prevention. The results show significant impacts of the community worker and community policing interventions on radicalization but no significant impact on recruitment. In contrast, the employment intervention had a strong and significant impact on recruitment, but little impact on radicalization.Policy Implications: Our ABM simulations challenge the reliance of existing programs to reduce recruitment to terrorism on counter and de-radicalization approaches. Instead they suggest that policy makers should focus more attention on deflection and opportunity reduction. At the same time, our ABMs point to the This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: Is There Evaluation Evidence That Interventions Reduce Recru...mentioning

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Section: Is There Evaluation Evidence That Interventions Reduce Recru...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Is There Evaluation Evidence That Interventions Reduce Recru...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…inhaltliche Arbeit, die Anwendung bestimmter Methoden und die Gestaltung des Lernkontextes extremistischen Ideologien entgegen zu wirken.Systematische Forschungsbilanzen zu Ansätzen der Extremismusprävention(Hassan et al 2021;Jugl et al 2021) erlauben erste Ableitungen wirksamer Maßnahmen. So erwies sich die Aufklärung über extreme Narrative und Motive radikaler religiöser Gruppen sowie eine differenzierte Wissensvermittlung über die eigene Religion als signifikant mit reduzierten Werten in extremistischen Einstellungen und Handlungsmotivationen assoziiert.…”

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