Preventing Armed Violence Tool: Data Analysis for Policy Decisions

The data collected can be analyzed to generate insights that inform policy decisions, for instance:

• Exploring how risk and protective factors may vary by age and by gender
• Identifying similarities and differences in risk and protective factors across violent extremism/terrorism and intra-state conflict
• Identifying and including indicators in monitoring and evaluation efforts
• Debunking assumptions about specific risk and protective factors
• Understanding differences in the risk and protective factors for the onset, spillover, and recruitment

CIC has already produced some of these analyses, including:

• Understanding risk and protective factors through a gender-lens →
• Exploring the overlap between violent extremism and intra-state conflict →
• Identifying overlooked avenues for prevention* →
• Understanding how risk and protective factors can be used to assess prevention impact →

*This includes, for example, the prevention of recruitment into non-state armed groups