Reports

Reports​

Academic, NGO and think tank reports relevant to advocacy against counter-extremism policy, including global CVE and Britain’s Prevent strategy.

People's Review of Prevent

The People’s Review of Prevent is an alternative review to the Government Shawcross Review.

This review provides a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty.

Prevent is described as ‘safeguarding’ children from harms. However, under Prevent, safeguarding is focused on protecting the wider public from children believed to be ‘risky’, rather than protecting children from harms.

Throughout our report we present case studies that show how real these harms can be and the distress they cause to children and their families and carers.

More Reports

These reports relate to Prevent. Some feature Prevent Watch contributions, including our cases

Leaving the War on Terror: Suggestions for Progressive Alternatives

This forward-looking report by the Transnational Institute offers an account of the failures of current counter-terrorism policies, an analysis of the reasons why they fail, and "a progressive alternative"...

Separating Families: The use of Prevent in child removal cases in the UK

This report into child removal is essential reading for those concerned about the Prevent counter-extremism strategy in social care, as well as its impact in the courts and on families...

Islamophobia on Campus: The Experience of Muslim Students in 2017-18

In 2017, in response to evidence of Islamophobia on campus, the NUS Women’s and Black Students’ campaigns undertook a survey on UK campuses. This report draws on the 578 responses...

Human Rights and the Globalisation of Counter Extremism

The globalisation of counter-extremism (CVE) is an emerging human rights concern, due to Britain's failed Prevent counter-extremism strategy being sanitised and presented as a framework for global blueprints...

Counter extremism and censorship: Tips against Prevent-related pressure

This brief for students on confronting counter-extremism and censorship on campus, was put together by Students not Suspects and was the first of its kind...

Rethinking the Prevent strategy: A Case for an Alternative Approach

This report on the negative impact of the Prevent strategy in the north, by Just Yorkshire and Leeds Beckett University was among the first to suggest "a progressive alternative"...

Eroding Trust: The Prevent strategy in health and education based on 87 interviews

A landmark report into the impact of Prevent in education and health, this Open Society Justice Initiative is based on over 87 interviews, legal research and public material...

The ‘Science’ of Pre-Crime: The secret prison study underpinning Prevent

One of the earliest interrogations of pre-crime predictive tools within the framework of counter-extremism, this CAGE report is a basic must-read for all concerned with Prevent...

Preventing Education: Human Rights and UK Counter-Terrorism Policy in Schools

Of interest to those concerned with children’s rights and counter-extremism, this report by Rights and Security International on the harms of the Prevent strategy in UK schools is core reading...