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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY1. Global initiatives to counter terrorist narratives are carried out by a number of different actors on the supranational, international, regional, national and sub-national levels. The UN has established itself as a key player in the field of counter-narratives, inspiring related institutions, such as the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) and Hedayah, to assist states in building concrete plans of action in this field. Other internationalorganisations, such as NATO and OSCE, have implemented initiatives that focus onstrategic communications and counter-narratives. States have also increased efforts incountering terrorist narratives through cooperation with other states or non-state institutional partners. Finally, tech companies have taken steps to prevent abuse of theirplatforms by terrorist actors.2. The EU has assumed a leading role in counter-narrative efforts through its own agenciesand programmes as well as through supporting external initiatives. Europol plays a keyrole in removing illegal terrorist content from the Internet while the EU Internet Forumprovides a platform to disrupt terrorist content and amplify counter-narratives. The EUalso facilitates a network of front line practitioners, the Radicalisation AwarenessNetwork, which provides analyses of existing counter-narrative efforts. Finally, there area number of institutes working at the European level, often in partnership with eitherthe EU or Member States, which facilitate the creation of counter-narratives between governments, industry, and civil society.3. There are four key trends in current efforts to tackle terrorist propaganda:i. Disruption of propaganda distribution - The key objective is to interfere with thedistribution of propaganda, in short, to try and stop propaganda at the source bypreventing it from reaching its target audience. In particular, this has focussed ontaking down propaganda from social media and deleting offending accounts.ii. Redirect method - Rather than erasing propaganda, this approach seeks toredirect viewers to different messages in an attempt to 'nudge' their behaviour.Pioneered by Jigsaw and ISD, this project redirects those searching for jihadistmaterial to counter-messaging.iii. Campaign and message design - These projects seek to provide information andskills to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to develop communication campaigns,typically based on counter-narrative or alternative-narrative approaches. Whilstdisruption seeks to stop the spread of propaganda, this approach seeks to enableCSOs with the skills to confront and undermine the propaganda.iv. Government communications and synchronisation of message and action - There is a tendency for communication campaigns to be designed in a vacuum,disconnected from events in real life. Synchronisation approaches take acomprehensive perspective and aim to link messages and actions, and tocoordinate messaging across government and with international partners. The strength of these approaches is to prevent the undermining of a narrative by exposing its 'say-do-gap', through ensuring message and actions are aligned, andthrough limiting contradictory messaging.Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs. Although the idea of counter-narratives is widely supported by governments, think tanks and NGOs, the concept itself is rather underdeveloped and lacks a thorough grounding in empirical research. There is little evidence to support the effectiveness of counternarrativesand many of its underlying assumptions have been called into question. Thereis a need for greater research in this area and, in particular, effective monitoring and evaluation of current counter-narrative projects in order to be able to ensure that lessons are learned.5. Counter-terrorism (CT) and countering violent extremism (CVE) strategiccommunications efforts across various programmes and initiatives can be informed by the following recommendations:i. Disruption of violent extremist material needs to be applied comprehensively andacross multiple platforms, in order to avoid displacing terrorist messaging activitybetween channels. The vacuum created by disruption needs to be filled with a seriesof messages designed to leverage a range of motivational drivers, in order toresonate with a target audience subject to varying motivations and in order to havea reinforcing cumulative effect on that audience.ii. To ensure coherent messaging over the short, medium and long term, campaignand message design principles need to be synchronised through the establishmentof a clear and simple-to-understand, overarching central narrative, which issupported by a thematically diverse array of messages.iii. A clear identification of the target audience is vital to effective strategic communications, taking into account a spectrum of potential consumers of the message (intended, unintended, supporters, adversaries and neutrals). A nuancedbehavioural and attitudinal understanding of that audience is needed topersuasively shape attitudes and behaviours.iv. Measuring the efficacy of strategic communications requires assessments thatfocus on measures of strategic literacy, technical literacy and target audience.These assessments need to be initially performed prior to the commencement of astrategic communications effort in order to establish a baseline measure. Once thebaseline metrics are established, these assessments need to be regularlyimplemented as a means to gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of the campaignover time.v. In order to gain trust, credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of a target audience,messaging needs to be synchronised with activities on the ground, therebyreducing the perceived disparity between what one says and does (the 'say-dogap'). The central requirement for improving the synchronisation of messaging andaction across bureaucracies is largely cultural. Archaic attitudes that 'actions speaklouder than words' contribute to an organisational culture, often reinforced bydoctrine, which affords strategic communications an ex post facto role inoperations, strategy and policy. Strategic communications should be a keyc onsideration in planning from the beginning of the operational, strategic and policy design process.

How long is Countering Terrorist Narratives?

Countering Terrorist Narratives by Alastair Reed is 54 pages long, and a total of 13,716 words.

This makes it 18% the length of the average book. It also has 17% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 14 minutes to read Countering Terrorist Narratives aloud.

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