Professionalizing Prevention & Advancing Sustainable Counterterrorism
Building Data · Strengthening Systems · Institutionalizing Integration & Coordination
About
Priority Sustainable Solutions LLC is an advisory and research firm supporting effective and sustainable solutions to preventing and countering terrorism and surrounding ecosystems sowing instability and threatening lives around the world.
Offering strategy and advisory, including business development; program and enterprise reviews; desktop reviews for towns, municipalities, and states on targeted violence and terrorism prevention; localization support to better identify and engage with local actors, such as civil society organizations, especially in and near terrorism affected areas; and client-specific Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism Reports on a client-chosen terrorist group, violent extremist threat, or threat landscape.
​​
Approach
Advisory, reviews, assessments, analyses, and reports are constructed to be comprehensive to the degree of being evidence-based and to produce analyses and recommendations that may be applied and used in the near term. Recommendations and insights are meant to be palatable and adoptable - solutions which may be possible in a given reality and political climate. Priority Sustainable Solutions are identified by engaging local actors, practitioners, and policymakers across sectors and levels.
​
Targeted violence and terrorism prevention, mitigation, and countering must be guided by the activity and direction of the bad actor activity to be effective. Priority Sustainable Solutions LLC professionalizes what may otherwise be a conceptual analysis by building the necessary data on geographic focuses - like the periphery of hot zones - or the activity - such as al Qaeda's non-kinetic and low-kinetic activity or lethality - to construct actionable assessments that align with the governance, security, and related counterterrorism systems as they exist to support effective and lasting solutions.
Implementing A whole-of-society approach
​Implementing Priority Sustainable Solutions requires both engaging and convening various community-level to policy-level actors.
Priority Sustainable Solutions LLC is a bridge builder - a trusted third-party who can help institutionalize and implement changes that are likely to support greater communication and coordination, including information sharing and access across sectors and levels.
​
Coordination and communication must be institutionalized for a system to work. Progress should be rewarded and encouraged by authority. Too many connections between sectors and levels are due to personal connections and often at personal sacrifice.
Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism Model
Localization
Localization is a key component in the methodology, ensuring that strategies fit within local contexts and realities.
Integration
Integrating security with development is critical to creating sustainable solutions that address root causes of violence. Cross-sector approaches are core to understanding and effectively combating these threats.
Positive Prevention
Positive prevention focuses on proactive measures that help mitigate risks before they escalate into violence that also harness youth's capacity and agency to be a part of the solution.
Assessment
We conduct thorough landscape assessments to understand the specific threats posed by different environments.
Policy Review
Our policy reviews highlight the importance of aligning local, national, and global initiatives for a cohesive response.
By combining these elements, we define transformative and sustainable counterterrorism practices.