ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between the two British policy agendas of Prevent and Community Cohesion. It argues that the clear policy demarcation claimed simply does not, and cannot, exist at the ground operational and the national level, post-2011 policy split has significantly exacerbated and further securitised inherent problems and tensions within Prevent; it has left the 'spooks' in sole. The chapter explains that the later demarcation of Prevent and Community Cohesion has made Prevent even more problematic and less effective in its own terms because it removes Prevent even further from, and privileges it even more in relation to, the policy analysis and practices of Community Cohesion. Real progress would require a re-energised, nationally funded, cohesion-based educational programme that encompassed the goals of Prevent while moving away from the counter-productive title and distinctness of Prevent as it currently stands.
