Violent Extremism in America

Violent Extremism in America
Author: Ryan Andrew Brown
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781977406798

Terrorism and ideologically inspired violence are persistent and serious threats to U.S. national security. This report uses interviews to explore why and how 32 individuals joined extremist organizations and how some of them exited these groups.

Understanding Deradicalization

Understanding Deradicalization
Author: Daniel Koehler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131730439X

first comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of de-radicalization offers a coherent typology and methodology regarding the effects and concepts of de-radicalization programs will be of much interest to students of deradicalisation, counter-terrorism, criminology, radical Islam, security studies and IR

Deradicalizing Violent Extremists

Deradicalizing Violent Extremists
Author: Hamed El-Said
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Radicalism
ISBN: 9780415525190

This book provides a detailed analysis of both counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation programmes in eight Muslim-majority states, representing hitherto one of the largest, detailed and most systematic inventory of such programmes in the world.

Countering Violent Extremism

Countering Violent Extremism
Author: Tahir Abbas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1838607234

Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world. However, the role of governments and issues relating to state terrorism and the counter-terror state remain important considerations. This book presents an understanding of the concept of Countering Violent Extremism from a critical terrorism studies perspective using case studies from different countries while examining the issues it raises. Extremism and violence do not emerge in a vacuum – nor do the policies that counter these concerns. There are no simple solutions to violent extremism but the fixation on ideology can do more harm than good.

Home, Land, Security

Home, Land, Security
Author: Carla Power
Publisher: One World
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0525510583

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A “provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization” (Esquire), told through the stories of former militants and the people working to bring them back into society What are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to this question well before the January 6, 2021, attack in Washington, D.C., turned our country’s attention to the problem of domestic radicalization. Her entry point was a different wave of radical panic—the way populists and pundits encouraged us to see the young people who joined ISIS or other terrorist organizations as simple monsters. Power wanted to chip away at the stereotypes by focusing not on what these young people had done but why: What drew them into militancy? What visions of the world—of home, of land, of security for themselves and the people they loved—shifted their thinking toward radical beliefs? And what visions of the world might bring them back to society? Power begins her journey by talking to the mothers of young men who’d joined ISIS in the UK and Canada; from there, she travels around the world in search of societies that are finding new and innovative ways to rehabilitate former extremists. We meet an American judge who has staked his career on finding new ways to handle terrorist suspects, a Pakistani woman running a game-changing school for former child soldiers, a radicalized Somali American who learns through literature to see beyond his Manichean beliefs, and a former neo-Nazi who now helps disarm white supremacists. Along the way Power gleans lessons that get her closer to answering the true question at the heart of her pursuit: Can we find a way to live together? An eye-opening, page-turning investigation, Home, Land, Security speaks to the rise of division and radicalization in all forms, both at home and abroad. In this richly reported and deeply human account, Carla Power offers new ways to overcome the rising tides of extremism, one human at a time.

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists
Author: Angel Rabasa
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780833050908

Measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced Islamist extremism have been implemented in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. This monograph describes and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these programs and proposes steps that can be taken to promote and accelerate deradicalization processes.

Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement

Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement
Author: Stig Jarle Hansen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315387409

The Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement offers an overview of the historical settings, theoretical debates, national approaches and practical strategies to deradicalisation and disengagement. Radicalisation and violent extremism are major global challenges, and as new and violent extremist groups and environments emerge, there is an increasing need for knowledge about how individuals physically exit these movements and how to change their mindset. Historically, much of the focus on these topics has been highly securitised and militarised; by contrast, this volume explores the need for more community-based and ‘soft’ approaches. The handbook includes discussions from both right-wing/left-wing political and religiously inspired deradicalisation processes. The handbook is organised into three parts: 1 definitions, backgrounds and theories; 2 actors; 3 regional case studies. This handbook will be of much interest to students, researchers, scholars and professionals of deradicalisation, counterterrorism, political violence, political extremism, security studies and international relations in general.

The Three Pillars of Radicalization

The Three Pillars of Radicalization
Author: Arie W. Kruglanski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190851120

Based on rare field research with terrorists, this ground breaking book delineates the drivers of radicalization and develops a deradicalization model to mitigate contemporary terrorism. Radicalization arises from individuals' needs, ideological narratives, and support networks. Individuals' need for significance and mattering, when conjoined to a narrative that advocates violence as a path to significance and a network that socially validates the narrative, creates a combustible psychological mixture that threatens social stability and global peace.

Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization

Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
Author: Derek M. D. Silva
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839829885

The fifteen chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance discuss a number of issues researchers in the fields of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice theorize, conceptualize, and measure racialization and counter-radicalization.

Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice

Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309453658

Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals to radicalization toward violent extremism, to provide nonviolent avenues for expressing grievances, and to educate communities about the threat of recruitment and radicalization to violence. To explore the application of health approaches in community-level strategies to countering violent extremism and radicalization, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop in September 2016. Participants explored the evolving threat of violent extremism and radicalization within communities across America, traditional versus health-centered approaches to countering violent extremism and radicalization, and opportunities for cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration and learning among domestic and international stakeholders and organizations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.