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By H. El-Said

ISBN-10: 1137449969

ISBN-13: 9781137449962

Hamed El-Said investigates the emergence of latest, 'soft' ways to counter violent extremists, generally called counter radicalization and deradicalization programmes (Counter-de-Rad). this can be the 1st paintings to advance a holistic framework with a purpose to let coverage makers and practitioners to raised comprehend stipulations conducive to violent extremism, and to raised layout and successfully enforce such programmes sooner or later. This publication, supported and facilitated via a wealth of basic study and attention of all stakeholders, addresses cultural and felony variations among international locations whereas constructing its holistic strategy. furthermore, the study makes a speciality of and identifies stipulations conducive to both the good fortune or the failure of Counter-de-Rad programmes. eventually, it presents a brand new, broader method of assessment the functionality of such programmes, one who is going past the present slim types which deal with recidivism premiums because the major indicator of good fortune or failure.

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Vidino and Brandon (2012, p. 2) are in agreement: Authorities have also struggled to establish clear metrics to assess the effectiveness of their programs. While methods of verifying the success of deradicalization and disengagement measures are relatively easier to find, general preventive measures are extremely difficult to empirically assess. It is important, however, to build in assessment and evaluation when developing Counter-de-Rad programs to allow for improvement, adjustment and to ensure that policies are fed the correct information about the effectiveness of their counterterrorism strategies.

Whether the former or the latter, debate is a key element in the process of Counter-de-Rad. Lyons (2009, p. 64) pointed to the prominent role which debate and discussion assumed in the political discourse under the Abbasid caliphates in the following words ‘other than face to face, how else could a learned man meet his colleagues and collect and debate their ideas’? Such debate can, and has, taken a religious form in some countries, like Saudi Arabia, for example, or Mauritania and Sudan. In others, like Malaysia, it has taken more of a political form.

For example, the economic and international business literature, known to be more rigorous, expansive and data-oriented than the terrorism literature, has long argued that ‘Terrorists tend to emerge from areas characterized by poverty, low economic development, and ungoverned spaces’ (JIBS, 2010, p. 833. See also Innes, 2007; Li and Schaub, 2004; Stern, 2010; Suder, 2004b). The major international business journal (JIBS) goes further to find a strong link between the weak political and developmental capacities of the state, arguing that ‘Poverty and underdevelopment often characterizes regions in which governments fail to address basic needs, such as ensuring adequate infrastructure or the rule of law, and therefore are either unwilling or unable to expel terrorists from their borders’.

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