Evidence-based Informed Policy Design for Support Groups for Families of Foreign Fighters: Ex Ante Application of Realistic Evaluation and Review

The previous chapters illustrated that realist review and realistic evaluation are suitable methods to deal with the complexity of evaluating countering violent extremism. Those chapters focused on applying realistic evaluation in an ex post situation. In chapter 2, realist review, through which existing evaluation studies are synthesized, was used to develop a conceptual model for CVE. chapters 4 and 5 illustrated the conduct of realistic evaluation for existing CVE programmes, such as family support and exit programmes.