Dr. Skye Cooley, Dr. Asya Cooley, and Linda Schlegel (Goethe University Frankfurt, GNET) participated in the CVE Roundtable at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 

Since the live-streamed attacks in Christchurch, El Paso and Halle and ISIS's use of video gaming sequences for propagandistic purposes, the so-called 'gamification of terror' has become a new concern for P/CVE research and practice. It is highly likely that gamification will continue to spread and be used by extremist organizations, which leads to important questions regarding the psychological effects of gamification on extremists and potential implications for our understanding of digitally-mediated radicalization processes. During our roundtable, we also hoped to contribute to CVE research by arguing that narrative reflection can be used as a tool to address violent extremism. During our talk, we provided theoretical understandings of narratives (and their role in our lives), discussed narratives as they relate to violent extremist ideologies, and proposed how narrative reflections may serve as a deradicalization tool within cooperative games.