Building Resilience against Violent Extremism: A Community Based Approach

Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism (BRAVE) CVE violent extremism Community-Based Approach

Preventing violent extremism—both within the United States and abroad—will remain a national security priority for the upcoming administration, given the multifaceted and expanding nature of the threat. There are a wide range of actors and movements that compose the threat matrix—including sovereign citizens; militia groups; issues-based extremists, such as eco-terrorists; ideologically linked gangs/organized criminal networks; and Islamist extremists, such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Al-Shabab. Islamist extremists compose a fraction of the overall threat in the United States (Kania and Kramer 2011; see also Shane 2015), but in other regions, these groups claim responsibility