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Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest

NABS+ brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers through Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Communities of Interest (CoIs). These communities provide structured spaces to share learning, build evidence, and strengthen prevention and early intervention across complex and sensitive areas of work.

NABS+ Communities of Practice focus on applied, cross-sector challenges and the development of practical outputs that support cultural change, evidence-based decision making, and improvement in policy and practice.

IAPSS-funded Communities of Interest bring researchers and practitioners together around shared themes in targeted violence and terrorism prevention, providing space for shared learning, research development, and the translation of evidence into practice.

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Wellbeing at Work

This Community focuses on supporting the wellbeing of those working in challenging environments and/or with difficult material. It brings together practitioners, researchers, and academics to improve early identification of risk, evaluate interventions, and address ethical and data-related challenges around wellbeing support.

Workplace VAWG Prevention & Early Intervention

This Community focuses on preventing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in workplace settings. It brings together cross-agency expertise to improve understanding of early warning signs, strengthen reporting cultures, test prevention and bystander interventions, and develop evidence-based, ethically grounded organisational responses.

This Community focuses on understanding the threats, harms, and risks associated with com networks and how to mitigate them. It brings together academics, practitioners, and policymakers to advance research, behavioural analytics, ethical practice, and multi-agency coordination to support prevention, disruption, and harm reduction.

Extremism and Mental Health

This Community of Interest explores the role of mental health in extremism and how research can better inform policy and practice. It connects international researchers and practitioners to improve collaboration, strengthen research integrity, and translate findings into operational insight.

Risk Assessment & Risk Management

This Community of Interest focuses on strengthening evidence-based approaches to assessing and managing the risk of terrorism and targeted violence. It provides a space to share knowledge, identify gaps, and co-produce practical, policy-relevant solutions.

This Community of Interest examines how norms around violence vary across societies and over time, and what this means for prevention. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to develop, share, and operationalise insight into how violence is understood, justified, or challenged.