Promoting peace as the antidote to violent extremism : evaluation of a Philippines-based tech camp and Peace Promotion Fellowship / Ashley L. Rhoades, Todd C. Helmus, James V. Marrone, Victoria Smith, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron.
"RAND National Security Research Division." "This research was sponsored by the Global Engagement Center at the U.S. Department of State and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD), which operates the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI)"--Preface (page iii). Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76). See also RAND/RR-A233-1, RAND/RR-A233-2, RAND/RR-4257-DOS.
Contents:
Introduction -- Tech Camp Assessment -- Peace Promotion Fellowship Assessment -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Interview Instruments -- Appendix B: Tech Camp Assessment Instrument Results -- Appendix C: Summary of Peace Promotion Fellowship Projects -- Appendix D: Results of a Study of Countering Violent Extremism-Themed Radio Programming in Mindanao.
Summary:
The Philippines continues to experience the travails of militant violence, much of which is focused on the southern island of Mindanao and its neighboring Sulu archipelago. Equal Access International (EAI) trained local civil society members on Mindanao to design and implement locally based countering violent extremism (CVE) campaigns. This training was provided through two five-day tech camps. EAI then selected 11 activists from the tech camps to participate in a six-month Peace Promotion Fellowship (PPF) program. This program offered mentorship and funding for these activists to implement their own community-based micro-CVE campaigns. To evaluate the process of implementing this program, RAND researchers conducted in-depth interviews with the 11 PPF fellows and the EAI staffers charged with running the program. During these interviews, researchers also asked the PPF fellows about their experience during the tech camps. This report contains a series of recommendations that are based on the information gained from these interviews to improve future tech camp and PPF programming. The authors of this report include research from a study of EAI CVE radio programming on Mindanao.
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