The Targeted Violence Threat Landscape - A Practice Guide for the US Prevention

The aim of this is not only to connect practitioners across the US with one another, but also to build their capacity and the efficacy of their programs through a series of workshops that cover both theoretical and practical elements of delivering prevention and intervention initiatives, and through providing information packs and practice guides in supplement to the workshops. [...] This particular guide supplements the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth workshops that were delivered for the emerging Network, and covers the threat of white supremacy and anti-government violence, Incel and misogynistic violent extremism, internationally inspired terrorism, and the role of mis-, dis- and mal-information in terrorism. [...] The practice guides, on the other hand, combine the contents of the read-ahead materials with insights from the workshops to provide both a conceptual overview of and practice tips for the given topic, which Network members can refer to in their work. [...] For more information about each threat "type", • advocating for violence or the sociopolitical readers are advised to refer to past materials provided to the exclusion of the out-group, and/or Network and to the "Further Reading Recommendations" framing the out-group as inherently listed in Annex C at the end of this practice guide. [...] For example, A Voice for Men, one of the most visible MRA websites, claims its mission statement is to “provide education and encouragement to men and boys: to lift them above the din of misandry, to reject the unhealthy demands of gynocentrism in all its forms…”.