A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (CEJI) work with Jewish communities and is geared toward combatting anti-Semitism through direct advocacy to the European Union. It works with capacity building, fundraising, and project management and activities to strengthen the local leadership of Jewish communities.

This article addresses the question of how terrorism declines and the role that different stakeholders within different contexts contribute to this phenomenon, particularly governments. It first addresses the point that disengagement from terrorism is an under researched area and starts with the assumption that government policies of prevention and deterrence…

Subjects furnished autobiographical accounts of being angered (victim narratives) and of angering someone else (perpetrator narratives). The provoking behavior was generally portrayed by the perpetrator as meaningful and comprehensible, whereas the victim tended to depict it as arbitrary, gratuitous, or incomprehensible. Victim accounts portrayed the incident in a long-term context…

The article is a descriptive look at entry, discipline and exit in the Italian Red Brigades (BR) in the early 1970s. The author describes the passage from extremism to terrorism and the criteria imposed by the BR for entry. Initial imitation of the Latin American guerrilla model was gradually replaced…

The exercise of self-sanction plays a central role in the regulation of inhumane conduct. In the course of socialization, moral standards are adopted that serve as guides and deterrents for conduct. Once internalized control has developed, people regulate their actions by the sanctions they apply to themselves. They do things…

EXIT-Germany is an initiative assisting individuals, who want to leave the extreme right-wing movement and start a new life. EXIT-Germany was founded by criminologist and former police detective Bernd Wagner and former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach. EXIT-Germany has been working since summer 2000 to provide assistance to dropouts from extreme…

Existing processes, methods and tools to identify and evaluate the risk of involvement in terrorism and violent extremism (ITVE) operate largely at the individual level. Comparatively less attention has been devoted to identifying and evaluating the characteristics of the socio-physical contexts (i.e. environments, settings, places)  which may contribute to the…

This volume explores the issues of extremism and violent extremism in Serbia through research from a multitude of different interdisciplinary perspectives. The topic of violent extremism and radicalization leading to terror (VERLT) has grown as a field of policy and donor aid support, globally and in the western Balkans. This…

Countries across the OSCE area are focusing increased attention on how to operationalize a “whole-of-society” approach to the challenge of preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalism that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT), an approach that emphasizes the importance of multisector, multidisciplinary, and multilevel collaboration. Referral mechanisms for addressing violence and…

The video game industry has been a major influence on students’ lives in recent years. Now researchers consider how games might be used in pursuit of engaging, effective learning experiences. Kurt Squire and Henry Jenkins describe five detailed scenarios designed to illustrate the pedagogical potential of computer and video games….

In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America’s long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield commander,…