TY  - RPRT
A1  - Brady, Erika
T1  - An analysis of the UK's counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, and the challenges in its evaluation
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - The UK’s Counter-Terrorism strategy, known as CONTEST, is recognized as one of the most successful soft-focus strategies in the world, with an intended emphasis on community support and what have become known as ‘Prevent’ (or counter-extremism) measures. In all, there are four limbs to CONTEST: PREVENT, PROTECT, PURSUE and PREPARE. While there is much crossover between these areas, for example policing activities take place in all four limbs, each one has a specific focus with its own intrinsic goals. This article intends to provide an overview of CONTEST, and to explore the challenges of evaluating counter-terrorism strategies in general. In doing so, I intend to show that while robust and independent evaluation of CONTEST has not been undertaken from a quantitative approach, some level of evaluation has taken place and can be taken into consideration when moving forward with future analysis of the strategy...
KW  - Anti-Terror
KW  - anti-terrorism
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - IRA
KW  - islamic state
KW  - islamism
KW  - radicalization
KW  - strategy
KW  - terrorism
KW  - UK
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41584
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-415842
UR  - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/10/10/an-analysis-of-the-uks-counter-terrorism-strategy-contest-and-the-challenges-in-its-evaluation/
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CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -