This study seeks to explore the issue of radicalization and extremist activity in the prison environment. Using a combination of prison theory, historical examples and contemporary open source material, this report seeks to identify lessons from previous instances of dealing with extremist prisoners. It is envisaged that these lessons may…
Attempts to profile terrorists have failed resoundingly, leaving behind a poor (and unfair) impression of the potential for a sound psychological contribution to understanding the terrorist. However, recent work in the area has delivered promising and exciting starting points for a conceptual development in understanding the psychological process across all…
During the 1990s, the working class has become the core clientele of right-wing populist parties in Western Europe. This article empirically examines the motives of workers for supporting a right-wing populist party. Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets…
Promoting mutual understanding and respect for diversity, along with countering all forms of intolerance and discrimination, must today, more than ever, be absolute priorities for the international community, in order to maintain peace and stability at both the global and regional levels. The attitudes and tensions that lead to inter-communal…
The aim of this study is to provide an answer to questions such as: What is it that makes radical movements break down? Why is it that a violent course of action is renounced at a certain point in time? Why do some people leave their radical group? Because of…
For right-wing extremists the Internet is one of the most important instruments of agitation. Nowadays they show up with modern, appealing, and often inconspicuous websites, specifically within Web 2.0 they target youngsters and lure them to dehumanizing ideas. This report illustrates that jugendschutz.net acts on different levels when it comes…
On 14 December 2007, the European Council welcomed the suggestions made by the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator with a view to strengthening the implementation of the Counter-Terrorism Strategy 1 and called for work to be taken forward rapidly on them. Significant progress has been made in recent months in implementing the…
Local communities working in partnership with their local authorities, police, education institutions, and others are at the heart of stopping people becoming or supporting violent extremists. The Government has produced detailed guidance to assist those organisations in their work. The guidance includes information on successful projects already underway that have…
Terrorism is a global public health burden. South Americans have been victims of terrorism for many decades.While the causes vary, the results are the same: death, disability, and suffering.The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive, epidemiological, descriptive study of terrorist incidents in South America. This is a…
On October 11th 2002, a 19-yearold man, Petri Gerdt, detonated a homemade bomb in the Myyrmanni Shopping Centre at Myyrmäki in the Helsinki area. Seven people died and over a hundred injured. On November 7, 2007 an 18 year old student, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, killed eight students, staff and faculty at…
In this report the Local Communities Network (LCN) sets out practical proposals for building integration and community cohesion at the local level. The report cites examples of how mainstreaming non-discrimination can contribute to community cohesion and equality in a given community and shows that diversity and equality can reinforce each…
This study, carried out by the Change Institute for the European Commission – Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security aims to explore the beliefs, narratives and ideologies that lead to violent radicalism underpinned by an abusive interpretation of Islam, with a view to understanding of the causes and remedies for…
