ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the argument that using military might to target terrorist groups such as Islamic State (IS), will only have limited gains. However, in order to see lasting gains and counter the ideology of IS, deradicalization and rehabilitation are a necessity. As the IS threat is global, the threat can be managed only by embracing and implementing rehabilitation and community engagement strategies and practices at national and international levels. At a time when western centric scholars wrote about deradicalization, Professor Kruglanski travelled to Singapore and studied rehabilitation. As most prisons and detention centers worldwide are overcrowded, rehabilitation of returning foreign fighters should be ideally conducted in a rehabilitation center with a conducive environment needed to facilitate such programs. To transform returning foreign fighters to productive citizens, governments should partner with a range of actors to create a rehabilitation enterprise.
