Defining and Classifying Terrorist Content Online: Leveraging National Countering Violent Extremism Strategies and Action Plans

The research in this paper builds upon the existing NAPs across 35 countries and the European Union and is based on the experience of Hedayah, which has been working with governments to develop and implement national strategies and action plans for P/CVE since 2014. In combination with national legislation on counter-terrorism, NAPs and national strategies often set out the country’s definition and approaches to terrorism, violent extremism, extremism, and radicalization both online and offline. Hedayah’s work on this subject has granted it privileged access to the conversations, discussions, and disagreements on how this work is to be defined in a variety of contexts such as Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Balkans.