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Category: Debate

In addition to providing high quality research relating to radicalisation and extremism, we also invite academics and other experts to discuss and comment on some of the key issues in the field. These articles help to clarify discourses on radicalisation as well as provide space for robust debate on some of the areas of difference between expert’s views.

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    Credibility contests and the ebb and flow of anti-minority activism

    How can analysis of ‘credibility contests’ help us understand where and when anti-minority activism is more likely to gain momentum? Joel Busher, Gareth Harris and Graham Macklin draw on their[…]

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    Extreme far right: ‘pick’n’mix’ ideologies and direct messaging online make for deadly new combination

    While it is difficult to look beyond the atrocities committed in New Zealand, that they were perpetrated by someone inspired by the extreme right reminds us of the very real[…]

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    The psychology of fear and hate, and what each of us can do to stop it

    As an immigrant to New Zealand, I am saddened and outraged by the events in Christchurch. The apparent innocence of New Zealand has been stripped away by acts of cowardice[…]

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    Violent extremism: how communities can help counter it
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    Violent extremism: how communities can help counter it

    Local communities are being called upon to help prevent radicalisation. In a bid to counter violent extremism, UK home secretary Sajid Javid recently launched the government’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism.[…]

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    Briefings: Reciprocal radicalisation

    What is reciprocal Radicalisation? Reciprocal radicalisation (and related terms, including cumulative extremism and co-radicalisation) is the idea that extremist groups fuel one another’s rhetoric and/or actions, including violence. It emerged[…]

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    Islamist and Far-Right Extremists: Rhetorical and Strategic Allies in the Digital Age

    The shared goal of extremist actors across different ideologies is to bring about radical political or societal change, often through the strategic polarisation of society. The adoption of meta-political campaigns[…]

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  • “Is it because they is…”: Microradicalisation, Reciprocal Radicalisation, and Explanation
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    Microradicalisations: individuals’ radicalisation journeys

    Whether ‘reciprocal radicalisation’, ‘cumulative extremism’ or ‘interactive escalation’, a key question for policy makers as well as researchers is how new people get drawn into conflict. After all, at any[…]

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    Understanding ‘reciprocal radicalisation’ as a component of wider conflict dynamics
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    Understanding ‘reciprocal radicalisation’ as a component of wider conflict dynamics

    The last time that the concepts of ‘reciprocal radicalisation’ and ‘cumulative extremism’ were a focus of attention for policymakers, practitioners and academics, we wrote two articles in which we sought[…]

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  • The Hyper-Intersectionality of Far Right Islamophobia and Islamist Radicalisation
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    The differences in how Islamists and the Far Right feed off their ‘Other’

    Both radical Islamists and far right groups feed off the ‘otherisation’ of groups presented as oppositional to their local and global identity formations. Far right groups want to reclaim particular[…]

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    Reciprocal radicalisation – practical examples of Prevent support

    As a practitioner working in Prevent I am always grateful for the opportunity to engage with and learn from academia. Whilst I cannot profess to have any theoretical or conceptual[…]

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