This issue paper:

• Introduces different models of MAW (Section 2)

•Discusses the importance of threat and hazard specification (i.e. specifying the threat of concern (Section 3)

• Summarises key lessons gleaned from relevant meetings of the RAN H&SC working group (Section4).

A policy paper, to be issued in 2018, will present a series of case studies on MAW in the EU, and identify a set of

good practice principles for those intending to establish MAW as a response to the threat of violent extremism.