Assessing the environmental risk factors for terrorism: Operationalising S5 (ASSESS-5)

Existing processes, methods and tools to identify and evaluate the risk of involvement in terrorism and violent extremism (ITVE) operate largely at the individual level. Comparatively less attention has been devoted to identifying and evaluating the characteristics of the socio-physical contexts (i.e. environments, settings, places)  which may contribute to the emergence of the risk of ITVE, or, conversely, to its suppression.

This project investigated the feasibility of developing a framework to assess the risk of involvement in terrorism and violent extremism at the level of environment. This requirement was conducted via a modified e-Delphi exercise with UK front-line practitioners in order to produce a shortlist of indicators that might characterise ITVE risk-promoting and risk-suppressing systems (societies), social ecologies (neighbourhoods) and settings, as well as the risk of individual selection for exposure.

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