Countering Terrorist Narratives

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, provided an overview of current approaches to countering terrorist narratives.

The first and second sections outlined the different responses developed at the global and European Union levels. The third section presents an analysis of four different approaches to responding to terrorist narratives:

+ disruption of propaganda distribution
+ redirect method
+ campaign and message design
+ government communications and synchronisation of message and action.

The final section offered a number of policy recommendations, highlighting five interrelated ‘lines of effort’ essential to maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism strategic communication.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, November 2017: Countering Terrorist Narratives http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/596829/IPOL_STU(2017)596829_EN.pdf

European Commission: Migration and Home Affairs: What we do > Networks > Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network_en

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