Bruce Hoffman’s Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyzes the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in recent years, focusing specifically on how al Qaeda has…

Utilizing a Geertzian cultural systems approach, Australian newspaper reporting of the 2002 Bali bombing is analysed to explore the dynamics of collective memory during crisis. With Australian footballers among the casualties in the terrorist attack, the traditional heroic figure of the Australian sportsman was widely used as a symbolic frame…

This is the first Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Annual Hate Crime Report, and brings together information on CPS performance in prosecuting racist and religious hate crime, transphobic and homophobic crime, disability incidents and domestic violence. Until this year, CPS included domestic violence within its hate crime measure, but now groups…

This independent report, undertaken by Waterhouse Consulting Group on behalf of Birmingham City Council, evaluates the implementation of the Government’s Pathfinder Fund: a project set up to support local authorities in preventing violent extremism (PVE) across Muslim communities. The aim of the report is to examine: first, whether the Birmingham…

The United Kingdom (UK), like many other countries, faces a severe and continuing threat from international terrorism. Preventing violent extremism (Prevent) and the terrorist acts that may follow is a long term challenge to be addressed at international, national and local levels. The government aims to prevent people becoming terrorists…

Little attention has been paid to the ways in which such groups come to an end or move away from violence of their own accord. Similarly, though much current attention has focused on the process of radicalization and the espousal of violent extremism, Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan argue that…

This study is an investigation of the basic ideas and practices of skinheads in Belarus as a local variety of the worldwide youth counterculture. There are several themes that are presented within the framework of this paper: the origin and development of skinheads’ style, neo-Nazi ideas’ orientation of the skinhead…

This book responds to the discourse surrounding the emerging geo-politics after 9/11, which has sought to link madrasas to global terrorism, as a sort of factories for global jihād. This linking of madrasas with terror turned into an excuse in the hands of several governments to assert control and surveillance…

In his speech on liberty last year, Gordon Brown said “to each generation falls the task of expanding the idea of British liberty and to each generation also the task of rediscovering liberty’s central importance as a founding value of our country and its animating force.” He called on the…

Our findings suggest that the coverage of British Muslims has increased significantly since 2000, peaking in 2006, and remaining at high levels in 2007 and 2008. This rise is partly explained by the increase in coverage devoted to terrorism and terrorism related stories – 36% of stories about British Muslims…

This article conceptualizes political radicalization as a dimension of increasing extremity of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors in support of intergroup conflict and violence. Across individuals, groups, and mass publics, twelve mechanisms of radicalization are distinguished. For ten of these mechanisms, radicalization occurs in a context of group identification and reaction…

This paper shows how a wide range of partners are working together to prevent violent extremism as part of the overall Prevent Strategy.