This publication explores the drivers of violent extremism (VE), with special reference to the Muslim world in the past three decades. It identifies and discusses those variables and dynamics that repeatedly have been shown to underpin contemporary manifestations of VE in countries with predominantly Muslim populations.

This report summarizes the recommendations and plan for implementing the UK PREVENT strategy within the context of universities and higher education. The report highlights several components of the plan, including the establishment of a “Champion Principals” group to oversee the implementation of the strategy and provide advise and support. Additional…

This publication explores the drivers of violent extremism (VE), with special reference to the Muslim world in the past three decades. This publication’s primary objectives are to summarize what we know, and what we do not know, about the drivers of violent Islamist extremism (VIE); to pinpoint recurrent drivers across…

This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the social science literature pertaining to counter-terrorism, with chapters seven and eight focussing on the cessation of involvement in terrorism activities. Generally, these chapters emphasise that just as radicalization pathways are somewhat context-specific, so too are deradicalization pathways. However, tying in with previous…

The Victim’s Voices Project has been implemented in Indonesia since mid-2012. By creating mechanisms and tools for victims to engage in efforts against violent political action and embed victim’s voices in the counter-terrorism struggle overall, it is hoped that this initiative can contribute to preventing violent radicalisation leading to terrorism.

This article explores South African madrassahs (Islamic religious schools) with a specific focus on if radicalization and extremism exist within the schools. This study collected interviews in two major districts in the Wester Cape province, South Africa. The interviews focused on educators for grades 2-10 at madrassahs. Based on reviewing…

This report looks at the religious dialogue project in Yemen, which aimed to end the attitudes of suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists in the state’s prisons, was one of the first deradicalization programmes in the world. It inspired similar efforts in other Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia. The report details the evolution…

Rule of Law anchors the relationship between the State and its citizens around an agreed set of rules, but its construction can be a messy and complex business. While donors have, quite rightly, supported efforts to reform Rule of Law in developing countries, this Opinion argues that the results on…

Evidence suggests that there is a link between certain madrasas in Pakistan and militant Islamic fundamentalism. However, this link has been inflated by Western media in an attempt to indict madrasas as the genesis of violent Islamic radicalism. The following study draws upon recent research and overlooked historical narratives, demonstrating…

This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist groups increasingly use and abuse the Internet for their propaganda and their recruitment, and also for their…

The internet plays a contributory role in radicalisation, but is only one of a number of mechanisms currently deployed to win recruits to global jihad. Technical regulation of online content is difficult and may be counter-productive, driving forums deeper underground or alienating users. Tim Stevens argues that adopting a social…

Research involving prisoners repeatedly went astray during the last century, culminating in the cruel medical experiments inside the Nazi concentration camps that gave rise to the Nuremberg Code. However, prisoners continued to become victims of scientific exploitation by the rapidly evolving biomedical research industry. The common roots of these abuses…