CIVIL SOCIETY COUNTER-MESSAGING IN ASIA: EXPERIMENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

In recent years, various civil society organisations (CSOs) have experimented and deployed counter-messaging campaigns and projects to prevent violent extremism in Southeast Asia. The pandemic has also accelerated the roll-out of some online CSO initiatives, while offline face-to-face projects have shifted to hybrid models. This CENS-GNET Workshop brought together counter-messaging practitioners from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines to share best practices and recurring challenges in this developmental field.