This exploratory policy document provides a brief summary of the Danish Government’s integration plan. The plan covers initiatives in the areas of education and training for immigrants and descendants of immigrants as well as young ethnic Danes, employment and employment generating schemes, efforts to counter neighbourhood ghettoisation and combatting extremism…

What causes the increase in terrorism that reportedly often follows government concessions? Given this pattern, why do governments ever conciliate terrorists? I propose a model in which terrorist organizations become more militant following concessions because only moderate terrorists accept them, leaving extremists in control. Governments nonetheless are willing to make…

This study investigated the self-enhancement strategies used by online White supremacist groups. In accordance with social identity theory, we proposed that White supremacist groups, in perceiving themselves as members of a high-status, impermeable group under threat from out-groups, should advocate more social conflict than social creativity strategies. We also expected…

To foster a more in-depth understanding of the psychological processes leading to terrorism, the author conceptualize the terrorist act as the final step on a narrowing staircase.Although the vast majority of people, even when feeling deprived and unfairly treated, remain on the ground floor, some individuals climb up and are…

There have been few attempts to introduce frameworks that can help support tutors evaluate educationalgames and simulations that can be most effective in their particular learning context and subject area. Thelack of a dedicated framework has produced a significant impediment for the uptake of games and simu-lations particularly in formal…

Cultures Interactive combines a sequential preventative approach to countering the threat from far-right violent extremism among school-aged youth. This project engages those at risk from disadvantaged communities susceptible to right-wing narratives through interactive mentoring and creative engagement.

This report responds to the European Council’s request for a report every six months on the implementation of the Action Plan to combat terrorism adopted in June 2004. The report summarizes progress since June 2005 and the state of play regarding ratification of the conventions and implementation of the legislative…

This book provides insights into the processes and motivations involved in group formation and joining, as well as into group cohesiveness and dis-integration, and the processes whereby individual members disengage or are unable to do so. Various forms of interaction between the group and the social environment will also have…

The emergence of radical Islamist movements in various parts of the world, the rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the 9/11 attacks, widespread vilification spearheaded by Hindutva groups–all these and more have made madrasas a much talked about institution. Focussing on the madrasas of India, Bastions of the…

An archival study is presented where we collected the most important events occurred between the days of the terrorist attack, on March 11th, and the general elections, on March 14th, some headlines in the press, and a summary of a study about participation in political forums in Internet. This first…

This paper examines how two activist groups attempted to use their websites to win support from people and influence international opinion on a controversial foreign conflict, the Kosovo crisis in 1999. This paper uses the Internet Archive web pages of the two websites to analyze how these two sites evolved…

Nearly seven years have passed since Al Qaeda issued a fatwa calling on Muslims worldwide to kill Americans and their allies. At the time, Al Qaeda was a hierarchical network with clear lines of authority leading to Osama bin Laden, who in turn provided funding and/or command and control over…