This working paper collects material submitted by the author as contributions to DoD's Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment project on violent extremist organizations. It discusses a systems approach, a spectrum of influence approaches, seeing influence strategy as involving a set of different influence approaches with different audiences, the sources of knowledge to inform strategy, decision aids, and an application to understanding and influencing public support of insurgency and terrorism.

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Introduction -- Influencing a violent extremist organization (VEO) and the larger system in which it operates -- Sources of knowledge and insight -- Some potential aids to thinking and decision -- Qualitative systemic theory for influencing public support of VEOS without bad side effects -- Final observations.