Deradicalisation is part of the Danish Government’s preventive efforts, as described in the Government’s National action plan, “A Common and safe future”, which was presented in January 2009. Deradicalisation is also a key element of the preventive efforts in the EU which Denmark contributes to. In the present context, the…

Protecting American communities from al-Qa’ida’s hateful ideology is not the work of government alone. Communities – especially Muslim American communities whose children, families and neighbors are being targeted for recruitment by al-Qa’ida – are often best positioned to take the lead because they know their communities best. Indeed, Muslim American…

A House subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday on “Preventing Violent Radicalization in America.” Although the title didn’t explicitly mention American Muslims, the proceedings undoubtedly focused on this community. The two witnesses — Peter Neumann and John Gannon — hail from the Bipartisan Policy Center, whose recent report urged the United…

The Majority staff of the Committee on Homeland Security has conducted an investigation into the threat by al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen in Somalia, Al Qaeda’s majorally in East Africa, and its efforts to radicalize and recruit Muslim-Americans inside the U.S. The key finding is that there is a looming danger of American…

In social science research on terrorism, there is a continued lack of individual-level, data-driven evidence to test hypotheses, build reliable case studies, and support the emergence of new theories about the psychological process in the development of the terrorist. To help redress this deficiency, this article calls for explicit discussion…

In October 2009, the IRR’s report Spooked: how not to prevent violent extremism first drew attention to concerns over Prevent’s gathering of information on individuals thought to be on a pathway to radicalisation. Now an ongoing research project on counter-radicalisation initiatives in the US and the UK,[1] drawing on information…

This comparative and historical project, covering the period 1974-2007, is focused on two eras of political violence in Britain, the first coinciding with the Irish ‘Troubles’ and the second since 2001.The research examined to what extent and in what ways Irish communities and Muslim communities were represented as ‘suspect’ in…

This study, in a small-scale but in-depth way, seeks to explore issues of counter-terorrism by giving voice to the experiences of some residents of four cities across Britain: Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Leicester. In a series of focus groups local residents, both Muslim and non-Muslim, were asked about their experiences…

This article investigates the potential role of the Internet for Spanish extremist right-wing organizations for their contacts (at the national as well as at the international level), the promotion of a collective identity and their mobilization. To address this issue, it employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative research techniques.

This paper was produced by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in advance of the 9th meeting of the Policy Planners Network on Countering Radicalisation and Polarisation (PPN) in June 2011. It provides a broad summary of the current understanding of the role of the Internet in relation to extremist and…

As we move into the new era of mobile journalism, following the news on Blackberrys and watching newscasts on iPads, at any time and anywhere, exciting new possibilities emerge for journalism. Real-time technology changes the flow of information not only in the democratic societies of the West, but impacts also…

In its role as national security authority, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) is responsible for identifying, preventing and countering threats to freedom, democracy and safety in Danish society. This applies to threats in Denmark as well as threats directed at Danish nationals and Danish interests abroad. The nature…