This report examines the use of the Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Afghanistan. It explores the effectiveness of CERP in supporting tactical operations in Afghanistan during the counterinsurgency-focused 2010–2013 time frame using both qualitative and quantitative methods and describes CERP’s origins, history, and existing research on the effectiveness of CERP in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Investing in the Fight: Assessing the Use of the Commander’s Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan

History

Stewart, Robert

ROBINSON, Eric

Helmus, Todd C.

Connable, Ben

Egel, Daniel

Ries, Charles P.

Baruffi, Isaac

Bradley, Melissa A.

Card, Kurt

Loa, Kathleen

Mann, Sean

Sedano, Fernando

Seabrook, Stephan B.

Asia

RAND Corporation

This report analyzes political warfare as it is practiced today by both state and nonstate actors, and provides detailed recommendations regarding the most effective ways that the U.S. government, along with its allies and partners, can respond to or engage in this type of conflict to achieve U.S. ends and protect U.S. interests.

Modern Political Warfare: Current Practices and Possible Responses

Radin, Andrew

Migacheva, Katya

Robinson, Linda

Cohen, Raphael S.

Magnuson, Madeline

Nader, Alireza

Military

The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements. This report is a companion to the toolkit and provides background on its development and testing.

Development and Pilot Test of the RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism

Politics & Social Sciences

Ramchand, Rajeev

Matthews, Miriam

Stebbins, David

Brown, Michael A.

Beaghley, Sina

Kadlec, Amanda

Social Sciences

Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign against former Soviet states that includes news tweets, nonattributed comments on web pages, troll and bot social media accounts, and fake hashtag and Twitter campaigns. Nowhere is this threat more tangible than in Ukraine. Researchers analyzed social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering this campaign.

Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

Marcellino, William

Mendelsohn, Joshua

Winkelman, Zev

Bodine-Baron, Elizabeth

Bega, Andriy

Europe

The threat of terrorism and violent extremism in the Philippines--especially in Mindanao, the Philippines' second-largest island--is severe and persistent. In this report, RAND researchers provide a snapshot of the terrorist and extremist threats facing the Philippines and the countering violent extremism efforts that the Philippine government and nongovernmental agencies have undertaken in response.

Countering Violent Extremism in the Philippines: A Snapshot of Current Challenges and Responses

Rhoades, Ashley L.

Equal Access International (EAI)'s countering violent extremism (CVE)-themed programming involves training local civil society members in Mindanao to design and implement locally based CVE campaigns. This report contains an evaluation of and recommendations from a set of EAI tech camps and fellowships in the Philippines. The authors of this report include research from a study of EAI CVE radio programming on Mindanao.

Promoting Peace as the Antidote to Violent Extremism: Evaluation of a Philippines-Based Tech Camp and Peace Promotion Fellowship (Countering Violent Extremism)

Marrone, James V.

Smith, Victoria M.

Given the size and scope of the Russian propaganda campaign that targeted the U.S. electorate in 2016, it is critical to understand the impact of that campaign and mechanisms that can reduce the impact of future campaigns. This report, the third in a series, describes a study that assessed how people react to and engage with this propaganda, and found that media literacy advisories and labeling the source of the propaganda had a counter effect.

Russian Propaganda Hits Its Mark: Experimentally Testing the Impact of Russian Propaganda and Counter-Interventions

Computers & Technology

Posard, Marek N.

Schlang, Danielle

Networking & Cloud Computing

This report, the fourth in a series on election threats, describes research from focus groups and individual interviews on responses to memes sourced in Russia that were designed to breed dissension and to a public service announcement warning about such online manipulation. It then outlines a strategy to counter such interference that involves coordinating with social media companies and releasing simple PSAs for use during election cycles.

Countering Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections

Reininger, Hilary

Terrorism and ideologically inspired violence represent persistent and serious threats to U.S. national security. In this report, the authors aim to characterize why and how 32 individuals joined extremist organizations, as well as how some of them exited these groups. Semistructured interviews were conducted with former extremists and their family members, representing 32 unique stories of 24 white supremacists and eight Islamic extremists.

Violent Extremism in America: Interviews with Former Extremists and Their Families on Radicalization and Deradicalization

Brown, Ryan Andrew

Palimaru, Alina I.

Weilant, Sarah

Hiatt, Liisa

Americas

Exploratory Examination of Agent-Based Modeling for the Study of Social Movements

Frank, Aaron B.

Grana, Justin

Marcinek, Krystyna

Kahn, Omair

Zutshi, Rushil

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