This report is about youths and young adults who have become involved in right-wing extremist movements and later terminated their involvement. It was produced on the basis of research in which the life stories of the young people played a central role. This is primarily a qualitative study of a…

This short overview aims to depict the complicated nature of the RE in Poland whose selection and classification in ideological terms became also a multilevel task. In the last decade, several NGOs and subsequently state authorities undertook a variety of actions, directly or not-directly aimed in the RE. Nevertheless, the…

The London bombings in 2005 led to the perception that the terrorist threat had changed from external to internal. This became conceptualized shortly after as “homegrown terrorism.” This article deals with the meaning and scope of this phenomenon. This article traces an ambiguity in the term “homegrown,” which is both…

This report focuses on the English Defence League (EDL) and asks whether the organisation poses a threat to our country and our values of social inclusion, fairness and equality. This report demonstrates clearly that the English Defence League does not represent the values which undepin our communities and our country:…

This monograph assesses the potential of Nigeria’s Sufi Brotherhoods to act, both individually and collectively, as a force for counter-radicalization, to prevent young people from joining Islamist groups.

This paper looks at the nature of ethnic, religious and militant influences on the Uyghur?Chinese state relationship. It further delves into the policies adopted by China to overcome the menace of ‘the three evils’ – extremism, terrorism and separatism – and the importance of the Xinjiang question in its foreign…

This report recognizes the important steps the Obama administration has taken to address violent extremism and suggests ways to address remaining gaps in U.S. homeland security and foreign policy. The report has benefited from a series of interviews with administration officials at numerous cabinetlevel agencies and the White House and…

The Coalition Government has the opportunity to initiate a new era of counter terrorism policy. It has started well by signalling its commitment to ‘restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power’, including the introduction of a ‘Freedom Bill’, and a review of counter-terrorism legislation. This…

This report stemmed from an expert discussion that took place in the Netherlands in June 2009, hosted by the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism (NCTb) and the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CTC) and Leiden University. With regards to formers’ narratives, Chapter 6 (by Michael Jacobson) highlights the lessons that can…

This study explores the decline of terrorism by conducting source-based case studies on two left-wing terrorist campaigns in the 1970s, those of the Rode Jeugd in the Netherlands and the Symbionese Liberation Army in the United States. The purpose of the case studies is to bring more light into the…

Using semi-structured interviews, 35 incarcerated Middle Eastern terrorists have been interviewed – 21 Islamic terrorists representing Hamas (and its armed wing Izz a-Din al Qassan), Islamic Jihad, and Hizballah, and 14 secular terrorists from Fatah and its military wing, PFLP and DFLP. The purpose of the research was to understand…

On 15 September 2009, Minister Anne Holmlund set up a working group to formulate Finland’s National Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The strategy was designed to define and clarify the roles and responsibilities of the various authorities involved in counter-terrorism action, and the possible coordination of such action as might prove necessary. The…