Elena Akers is a researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include radicalisation, domestic extremism, social movements, and propaganda.
Michael A. Jensen is a senior researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland where he leads the centre’s team on extremism in the United States. He is the principal investigator of the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project. His work examines the processes of radicalisation, disengagement from extremism, and patterns of terrorism and targeted violence in the United States.
Dr. Marcus A. Boyd is an Associate Research Scientist and Director of Graduate Studies of the Security and Terrorism Studies programs at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has conducted research on terrorist finance, sanctions, drug trafficking organisations, and most recently, climate security. He has been at START for 10 years. Prior to that he served in various positions supporting the US Intelligence and Defence Communities.
As a practical, evolving and growing tool, the RAN Collection includes more than 200 inspiring practices and is a convincing testimony to the progress that is being made in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). It is continually expanding to include more practices to provide a valuable source of information and inspiration for practitioners, policymakers and researchers. The Collection offers practitioners, policymakers and researchers the opportunity to draw inspiration from existing practices and to find examples adaptable to their local/specific context.
The RAN is a network of frontline practitioners who work daily with both those vulnerable to radicalisation and those who have already been radicalised.
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