INTRODUCTION
We live in a world where radical right extremist violence is on the rise. 1 As recent terrorist attacks in the US, Europe and New Zealand have shown, ideas and messages propagated by radical right actors can inspire violent (and oftentimes deadly) political action.2 The pertinent question therefore becomes: how can governments, policy practitioners and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) respond to this?
One weapon in the array of softer, upstream counter terror (CT) interventions are counter narratives, or narratives that aim to ‘[demystify] deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’.4 Tracing its policy origins in the UK back to the development of the Home Office’s CONTEST counter terror strategy,5 such a policy intervention has more commonly been used against extreme Islamist groups. 6 The CARR-Hedayah Radical Right Counter Narratives toolkit is therefore attempting to foster best practice when using this methodology specifically in relation to violent forms of radical right extremism.
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