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Social Media to P/CVE: Toolkit for Practitioners Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Search for Common Ground This Toolkit has been created on the basis of the key findings obtained in the framework of the Search for Common Ground (Search) โSocial Media for De-Radicalization in Kyrgyzstan: A Model for Central Asiaโsโ pilot project funded by the Bureau of Counterterrorism, US Department of State. The project is based on two parts: a participatory approach, focused on UN Resolution 2250, and a professional approach aimed at creating and conducting social media campaigns in Kyrgyzstan.Extremist and terrorist groups use the Internet to radicalize and recruit young people through social media and instant messaging applications. Therefore, it is important to create new methods to combat online extremist propaganda, focusing not only on measures such as blocking and filtering content, or counter-narratives which are very popular and come naturally in response to radicalization and violent extremism, but also offering a positive alternative to extremist propaganda, while challenging their ideology and messages. 
Information Flows and Radicalization Leading to Violent Extremism in Central Asia Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Search for Common Ground This study was carried out as part of the regional project โPromoting Stability and Peace in Central Asia through Media Literacy, Effective Lighting and Regional Cooperationโ, implemented by the Internews office and funded by the European Union. The project aims to support national and regional initiatives that help prevent radicalization in Central Asia by increasing the capacity of journalists, civic activists and media professionals in the production of high-quality media content and the level of critical media consumption of representatives of civil society, decision-makers and active citizens. 
Countering Violent Extremism: An Introductory Guide to Concepts, Programming, and Best Practices Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Search for Common Ground This curriculum aims to update the best practices and experience gained in the process of countering violent extremism. The anti-violent extremism program, adapted for Central Asia, is designed to train civil servants and civil society organizations. This curriculum delivers a contextually literate countering violent extremism and awareness-raising training program that is relevant to your context in an accessible way. It highlights the benefits of collaborative approaches beyond the use of military or securitized responses to violent extremism, drawing on good practices, and offers tools and guidance for easy adaptation to your local context and cultures. Finally, it encourages the early identification and mitigation of risks with programming, as well as ensuring a Do No Harm approach.While this curriculum will offer guidance around how to design, implement, and monitor constructive responses to violent extremism, an understanding of project management is assumed. Therefore, it is not a training program on general project management skills, monitoring and evaluation, or on fundraising.Since the problem of violent extremism is complex and highly context-specific, it is also not a guide to the drivers of violent radicalization in your local context, nor does it proscribe the programs and policies that would be most effective. Instead, it introduces you to the guiding questions and tools necessary to make informed and effective choices in your own efforts to counter violent extremism.