| Description |
1 online resource (56 pages) |
| Series |
RUSI occasional paper, 2397-0286 |
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RUSI occasional paper. 2397-0286
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| Contents |
Executive summary. -- Introduction. Methodology. What are mentorship programmes? Assessing the evidence on mentorship-focused interventions. -- I. Promising approaches in mentoring. Mentoring and the creation of life skills to prevent violent extremism. Mentoring to meet needs for belonging or identity. Mentoring to raise awareness of the risks and consequences of violent extremism. -- II. Limitations of mentoring approaches. -- Unintended consequences of promoting self-esteem. -- Promoting liberal democratic values as part of mentoring is potentially ineffective. Focusing on religious education in mentoring could be ineffective. Building resilience should be a long-term goal of mentoring. -- III. Mentoring and effective implementation. Identifying mentees. Selecting mentors. Programmes need to be connected to community resources. -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This paper examines the effectiveness of mentorship interventions in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) as part of the Prevention Project, which appraises the available evidence base and examines 'what can work and what has not worked' in P/CVE interventions. Mentorships, as interventions targeted at the specific needs of individuals or groups of individuals and adapted to the local environment, are assumed to have a higher chance of tackling violent extremism than broad approaches targeting general populations. This paper demonstrates that evaluations of mentorship interventions are limited in number and scope - as with the wider P/CVE field. Existing evaluations often lack well-developed theories of change and are over-reliant on anecdotal evidence. 3 It is therefore difficult to draw causal links between mentoring and positive P/CVE outcomes. This paper is, however, cautiously optimistic about the effectiveness of mentorship programmes |
| Notes |
"September 2020." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-38) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (RUSI, viewed February 8, 2022) |
| Subject |
Radicalism -- Prevention
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Mentoring -- Evaluation
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Mentoring -- Evaluation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, publisher.
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