Cutting through Complexity: Evaluating Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

This study applies and further develops realistic evaluation and realist review to provide an evaluation and synthesis method for complex social programmes such as counter violent extremism (CVE). The end result is heuristic development of the realistic evaluation method which provides a basis for future CVE evaluation studies.

Amy-Jane Gielen is a political scientist who completed her dissertation at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam. She has more than a decade of experience in evaluating CVE and advising governments on a local, regional and national level.