ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement offers an overview of the historical settings, theoretical debates, national approaches and practical strategies to deradicalisation and disengagement.
Radicalisation and violent extremism are major global challenges, and as new and violent extremist groups and environments emerge, there is an increasing need for knowledge about how individuals physically exit these movements and how to change their mindset. Historically, much of the focus on these topics has been highly securitised and militarised; by contrast, this volume explores the need for more community-based and ‘soft’ approaches. The handbook includes discussions from both right-wing/left-wing political and religiously inspired deradicalisation processes.
The handbook is organised into three parts:
1 definitions, backgrounds and theories;
2 actors;
3 regional case studies.
This handbook will be of much interest to students, researchers, scholars and professionals of deradicalisation, counterterrorism, political violence, political extremism, security studies and international relations in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
Definitions, backgrounds and theories
chapter 5|13 pages
Psychological approaches to terrorist rehabilitation
chapter 7|15 pages
Deradicalization or DDR?
part II|100 pages
Actors
chapter 11|13 pages
Civil actors’ role in deradicalisation and disengagement initiatives
chapter 13|17 pages
United Nations and counter-terrorism
part III|138 pages
Regional case studies