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Legally designating domestic extremist groups as terrorist organizations – as some in the US advocate now – will have limited benefits, if any at all.
New Zealand’s response to the Christchurch mosque attacks is seen as a new way of reacting to violent extremism. The challenge now is how to translate domestic cohesion into foreign policy.
We don’t know the exact path towards radicalisation, so giving teachers signs to look for is dangerous.
While broad-based counter-terrorism strategies aren’t very effective at preventing lone-actor attacks, community outreach efforts are having success turning troubled young lives around.
If Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen had not been Muslim, it is highly unlikely he would have been imprisoned in a Supermax facility for four weeks on flimsy evidence.
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Simon Rosenbaum is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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DECRA Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Senior Analyst Te Arawhiti and founding member of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Aotearoa (MEISA) network, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, Département des sciences de l'activité physique, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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PhD Student, Health and Society, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
