This selection of films shows the problem of extremism in its complexity, examining how real people can become radicalised.
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Articles on Radicalisation
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We should celebrate the 'deplatforming' of the 8chan message board, linked to the El Paso shootings, as a win for the fight against online hate speech. But its removal does not mean the fight is over.
The process of radicalisation is a complex system that cannot be reduced to the brain, behaviour, or environment. It exists at the intersection of all these elements.
After a civil conflict, within five years the majority of modern peace agreements fail. What is causing these negotiated settlements to fall apart?
Michael Haneke's allegorical 2009 film showed how a peaceful society can be shattered within a single generation. It's a lesson for us now in a world drifting toward populism and violence.
We don't know the exact path towards radicalisation, so giving teachers signs to look for is dangerous.
Globally, Muslims have been by far the most victimised group by terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
With more cases of women such as Shamima Begum expected, the UK is under legal obligations to protect the rights of any children involved.
Despite the publication of promising new statistics on referrals to the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, the strategy remains a blunt instrument.
Not all terrorist incidents have mental illness as a causal factor, and most violent acts are committed by people without a mental illness.
An analysis of budget documents suggests that federal funding for community-based, counter-terrorism programs has dried up.
Lecturers remain concerned about limits the Prevent duty places on freedom of expression.
Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda.
The internet may provide the forum, but radicalisation remains a social process.
Islamic State systematically militarised the education systems of captured Iraqi and Syrian territory to turn the region’s children into ideological timebombs.
The word only appears 14 times in the UK's parliamentary record between 1803 and 2005. Now it is everywhere.
A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it. Here two of them tell their stories.
Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
The Maldives' increasingly polarised religious politics are coming apart.
Counter-terrorism policies have social and political impacts on citizenship, identity and our perception of self and the Other. Through the British case, Lee Jarvis discusses his latest research with Sylvain Antichan.
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