The Rise and Fall of CVE in the Middle East

CVE is just a jargon acronym used in British, British really intelligence and political context for countering violent extremism. It has been used in by the US too. The one of the four main people working on this project, Harry Holcroft, "just struck me as a very kind of elite, very typically British elite figure," says author Peter Bergen. He was trained in elite British schools and academic institutions spent many years living overseas in Arab countries and according to his own testimony is fluent in Arabic.