This example demonstrates how Luton Borough Council and its partners developed a multi-agency approach to addressing safeguarding issues related to radicalisation and extremism within a wider community integration strategy. The aim is to improve practice with the services provided and to reduce the risk to children and young people.

The first of two interrelated security threats is multifaceted inasmuch as it stems from a complex combination of religious, political, historical, cultural, social, and economic motivational factors caused by the growing predilection for carrying out mass casualty terrorist attacks inside the territories of “infidel” Western countries by clandestine operational cells…

In recent years, dozens of young Muslims from Britain, Europe, and North America have gone to Somalia to fight with the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab. ICSR’s latest report – Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy – is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of how al-Shabaab is reaching out…

In the last few years, and especially since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating from individuals and groups who self-identify with the far-right of American politics. These incidents cause many to wonder whether these are isolated attacks, an increasing trend,…

In December 2011, the Government presented a national action plan to safeguard democracy against violence-promoting extremism. During the remainder of its mandate period, the Government will be investing SEK 62 million to prevent and counter the breeding grounds for violence-promoting extremism. The purpose of this publication is to present the…

There has been an enormous amount of academic and policy work on the integration of minority cultural communities, especially certain Muslim communities, into ‘mainstream’ society in the last decade. Our task in this briefing is to outline a potential new approach, one that we call ‘everyday integration’. We believe that…

This paper is the fifth in a series of country briefing papers released in 2012 about the online support of populist political parties and street-based groups in Europe. These papers are based on a dataset of approximately 10,667 Facebook supporters of these ‘nationalist populist’ parties in 11 European countries, which…

An examination of the main far-right groups active in Poland today, as well as the orientations, narratives, and influences of these groups. There is also a brief discussion on some of the countermeasures that have been used to move people away from far-right influences in the country.

This report begins by exploring the rise of extremist groups in Pakistan and the avenues through which they increase their influence in society. The next section discusses government-led initiatives to counter extremism. This is followed by a broad overview of the scope and capacity of Pakistan’s civil society. Efforts to…

This policy report draws on the discussions during a meeting entitled “Colloquium on Measuring Effectiveness in Counterterrorism Programming” and held in Ottawa on 9–10 February 2012, as well as discussions with experts, government officials, and an initial desktop literature review. The colloquium was developed and organized by the Center on…

This briefing sets out initial findings from an Institute for Strategic Dialogue research project, which sought to explore the challenges of evaluating integration and gather best practices and learning points to inform government and foundation approaches to designing and evaluating integration programmes.

This document outlines the case against Anders Breivik and the court’s judgement in 2012, following the murders and injuries he caused on Utøya Island and in the government district of Oslo, Norway, in 2011. There are detailed descriptions of the victims experiences in this transcript, highlighting the traumatic events of…