Partnering to build solutions: 2014 Countering Violent Extremism Symposium, Sydney

This paper presents the outcomes of the 2014 Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Symposium: Partnering to Build Solutions, organised by the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT), Macquarie University. This event developed the practical and conceptual tools and context needed to provide a unique space within with diverse stakeholders from government, industry, community and academic worked together to build whole-of-society solutions to five current CVE issues. Three overarching themes emerged during the planning and delivery of the Symposium: the validity of a robust model of transdisciplinary engagement; the role of impact and the challenging but critical requirements across the CVE space for evaluation. It is argued that the model of transdisciplinary engagement utilised during the symposium is one best suited to address the latter two issues of impact and evaluation.