PAVE: How?

PAVE had two main objectives:

  1. to advance evidence-based knowledge on violent extremism in the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the Western Balkans, and
  2. to strengthen the capacity of policy-makers and community leaders for the development of an effective prevention strategy between the European Union and its neighbourhood.

We achieved these objectives through a bottom-up, participatory strategy:

Strategy

The workload is structured into nine work packages that build on each other to implement the overall project.

Work packages

Timeline and implementation of participatory approach

Designed as a three-year project, PAVE members convened a variety of events including policy roundtables to disseminate the research findings in-country and pilot trainings to test the produced training materials to strengthen community resilience. Additionally, to ensure that the project addresses local needs, two stakeholder committee meetings were held in each fieldwork country in order to engage key social actors during the design and implementation of the research. These involved local state and security officials, community (e.g. religious) leaders, civil society representatives as well as organisations and individuals working with at-risk groups. EU and member state policy-makers were also addressed through policy dissemination events in Brussels and EU project partner countries.

Timeline

EU

The PAVE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870769.