Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a theoretical framework supported by case studies. It aims to send the message that idealistic solutions may not exist when crafting a rehabilitation programme. The book seeks to share the global experience in terrorist rehabilitation. It focuses on approaches to rehabilitation and the varied experiences of countries of fighting the emerging threat using strategic approaches. The book also describes that progressive states and agencies have expended a milieu of soft and hard countering violent extremism strategies that include disengagement, repression and rehabilitation as part of the approach to reintegrate radicalised individuals into society. It explores the notion of accommodation or living arrangements of terrorist detainees and the possible impact that this has on the rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. The book describes economic rehabilitation, in which the participants gain economic independence while facilitating their re-entry into society.