Learning from the Past – Sharing Experiences across Borders to Combat Extremism

Salzburg Global Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Program continues building strategies for countering violent extremism.

Ensuring the next generation can grow up in more resilient, open, and pluralist communities in the face of rising extremism challenges countries across the globe. Faced with a rise in violent extremism, policymakers are under pressure to invest in prevention and to show that it works. Structured efforts to reduce extremist mindsets and behaviors have existed for some time, but evidence of effectiveness is often not widely known or utilized. Many interventions require considerable time to affect change, making rigorous measurement of their success over the long term resource-intensive and in need of sustained political will around an often-unpopular topic. What works? How do we know? And will it work in different geographic, cultural and political contexts?

Originally published on Salzburg Global Seminar. Read the full article here.