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Lessons Learned from Mental Health and Education: Identifying Best Practices for Addressing Violent Extremism
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
USA | 2015 |
Author: 
Stevan Weine; B. Heidi Ellis; Ron Haddad; Alisa B. Miller; Rebecca Lowenhaupt; Chloe Polutnik
Corporate author: 
START/Office of University Programs, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Region: 
Global

The overall purpose of this research was to identify assets from the mental health and education fields that could contribute to best practices for preventing and intervening against violent extremism. Specifically we aimed to address the following questions:

1) What prior knowledge, programmes or interventions within the mental health and education fields could contribute to best practices and other strategies that could help stop violent extremism? 
2) How can professionals from the mental health and education fields best become involved in stopping violent extremism?

Resource Type: 
International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documents
Research papers / journal articles
Conference and programme reports
Other
Theme: 
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Preventing violent extremism / genocide
Others
Level of education: 
Higher education
Other
Keywords: 
peace education
preventing violent extremism