Choosing our friends wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups is an authoritative analysis of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), the £90 million centrepiece of the government’s effort to stop the radicalisation of young Muslims.

The authors set out how the sound principles and good intentions of PVE have been compromised by muddled thinking as to the appropriate criteria for selecting Muslim groups as partners and by lax implementation at local level.