Community-Based Terror Prevent

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

Communities around the world play a vital role on the front lines of terrorism prevention by creating public awareness about threats, and developing countering violent extremism (CVE) programs. However, to date, few practitioners have entered the field in the US, when compared to their international counterparts. This course will equip students from a practitioner and policy perspective to: 1) understand the threat of radicalization to ideologically motivated violence and recruitment tactics of extremist groups, 2) assess and compare community-based and federal government approaches to CVE, and 3) examine challenges and lessons learned from real case studies of community-oriented prevention and intervention approaches. This course will be an interactive seminar with lectures and group discussions. At the conclusion of the seminar, students will have developed a strategic plan for a prevention or intervention program in a community of their choice.