June 20, 2017
As part of its ongoing effort to facilitate greater collaboration among NGOs in New York around the preventing violent extremism (PVE) agenda, The Prevention Project, together with the Global Center on Cooperative Security, convened a roundtable under the framework of the Global Solutions Exchange (GSX) for NGOs with experience engaging the United Nations on a range of issues related to preventing violent extremism (PVE), e.g., peacebuilding, gender, and human rights. The purpose was two-fold: 1) to share experiences on how and discuss the ways in which civil society space is shrinking and strategies for preserving this space in the context of PVE and 2) to brainstorm ways to strengthen the UN’s engagement with civil society on PVE, particularly in the context of the recent establishment of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT).