Practitioner-Focused Workshop: CVE and Education

The workshop presented relevant case studies to the international community (GCTF members and related international organizations), and ended with a planning session to coordinate international efforts on Education and CVE for 2014 and 2015. The participants included mid to senior-level government officials, practitioners and policy makers from GCTF members to relevant non-GCTF members. The candidates were from Ministries of Education, Ministries of Youth and Ministries of Sports and Culture.
Throughout the workshop, participants attended speeches and engaged in discussions regarding the use of technology in countering violent terrorism as well as the use of media as a tool for CVE. The workshop used evidence-based approaches in education to counter violent extremism, where attendants discussed differing techniques such as integrative complexity, and how they can be applied to Education in the context of CVE.
The workshop also provided case examples of education helping to prevent or reduce violent extremism, especially in conflict zones, with special focuses on how education in the formal sense can expand to affect building resilience in families and communities.
The output of this workshop will be a proposed set of CVE and education good practices and an action plan of recommendations and realistic work proposals for governments and organizations that want to implement CVE and education programming. This will include recommendations regarding potential collaboration/roll out of existing projects. GCTF members will be given the opportunity to review this draft output, with the goal of having the documents endorsed at the next high-level GCTF meeting, which is tentatively scheduled to take place in New York in fall 2014.