The field work examined local perceptions in 6 communities in Lebanon (Baalbek, Hay elSalloum, Kfarnabrakh, Saida, Tripoli and Zgharta). The qualitative findings drew from 11 workshops, 12 focus group discussions (FGDs), and 54 stakeholders’ interviews, and a policy lab with a total of 547 participants in Lebanon. The research sample includes government officials, security actors, community leaders, civil society representatives, and international organizations. The project develops a Theory of Change to align human security programming with efforts to prevent violent extremism, taking into account the impact of traditional security policies on these efforts. This dataset includes all raw data from Lebanon, and is in Arabic and English.