Awareness Efforts

Global Peace Foundation has also led efforts to raise awareness of and prevent violent extremism across its international portfolio, including in Kenya, Tanzania, and Indonesia. For this work, our U.S. based subject matter experts collaborate with field partners to implement best practices, provide technical support and capacity building coaching, evaluation, as well as learn from local promising practices that may inform the field of work.

In Kenya, GPF has implemented online digital literacy education and social media counter-narrative campaigns with funding from Google and other donors. GPF Tanzania has built capacity of women and youth to prevent and counter violent extremism in their communities and examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on extremist narratives in East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Projects have received support from United Nations Development Programme, African Women Development Fund, Hedayah Center and others. In Indonesia, GPF implemented the Millennial prevention campaign reaching 6 universities and over 1,000 youth with support from UNDP through Convey Indonesia.

Across these projects, GPF’s subject matter expertise and local field networks provide rich inputs to adapt program design approaches and curricula for training deliveries and presentations at conferences, convenings and professional development events, and tailored to fit the local contexts and audiences in European and African countries. In project evaluations, participants reported significant increases in the ability to recognize, prevent, and take appropriate action to counter violent extremism.

The Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention project is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, opportunity number EMW-2021-GR-00121.