This RAND report mines a systematic review of 41 public health communication campaign meta-analyses for lessons applicable to U.S. national security communications, including the Army's psychological operations inform, influence, and persuade campaigns.

Created the national standard for measuring CVE program effectiveness. Mandated by the Department of Homeland Security for all terrorism prevention grant recipients.

This RAND report was part of a ground breaking set of studies that experimentally tested the impact of State Department counter violent extremism programs. This study, in a first of its kind, used text message surveys to assess the impact of CVE radio programs in Nigeria.

We RAND randomized controlled trial using actual Russian propaganda finds that the content reliably elicits strong partisan reactions but that revealing its Russian source and showing a brief media literacy video reduce engagement—especially among Partisan Left and Partisan Right audiences—pointing to source-unmasking tools, generalized warnings, inoculation approaches, and scalable social media literacy as viable countermeasures.

This RAND evaluation was part of a ground breaking set of studies experimentally testing the impact of Department of State funded counter violent extremism programs.

This RAND evaluation of Equal Access International's Mindanao CVE training and Peace Promotion Fellowship finds high participant satisfaction and successful community-based projects, and recommends tighter program design, more dedicated coaching staff, contingency planning, attention to fellow credibility, and more rigorous evaluation.

The authors of this study assessed the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program which is designed to provide counterterrorism training to state, local, and tribal law enforcement personnel.

This RAND assesses the Redirect Method, which uses targeted ads to divert users searching for violent jihadist or far-right content toward counter-narrative videos and it offers recommendations for improving evaluations of online campaigns.