Schools have the opportunity to develop students’ voices and agency to shape greater political civility and civic engagement.
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The extent to which schools foster political deliberation, engagement, understanding and empathy has far-reaching implications for our democracy.
A makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue.
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The shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue joins a list of more than 200 other ideologically motivated attacks by far-right extremists since 1990.
A memorial vigil for the victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue where a shooter killed 11 and wounded six on Oct. 27, 2018.
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The attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and the sending of pipe bombs to critics of the current administration are examples of the increase in the violence on the margins of the right.
Australia has some of the toughest anti-terror laws in the world. But the government isn’t doing enough to prevent extremism at the community level.
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An analysis of budget documents suggests that federal funding for community-based, counter-terrorism programs has dried up.
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Is controversy extremist? The Charity Commission seems to think so.
Led by speaker Anjem Choudary (centre), al-Muhajiroun protests Omar Bakri Mohammed’s arrest in Lebanon in November 2015.
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The extremist network al-Muhajiroun has rebuilt itself before, but that doesn’t mean it’s destined to again.
Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The fourth is the Oxford-style debate series, this article argues that “the impact reflected by Trump is here to stay”.
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Social isolation feeds into extremism and terrorism.
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FreeTommy protests depict the founder of the English Defence League as a hero. But his sentencing had nothing to do with the right to protest.
An Indonesian police officer secures the area following the May 14 bomb blast at police headquarters in Surabaya, East Java.
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A tougher security approach to terrorism may be counterproductive and could even potentially undermine the supremacy of civilian government in Indonesia.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in orange headgear, greets members of Sikh community during his visit to Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018.
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Recent reports of the presence of Sikh extremists in Canada have put both the prime minister and the federal leader of the NDP party on the defensive about their positions.
NRA TV’s content focuses on ideology rather than guns.
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Gun control advocates want to shut down the National Rifle Association’s online video channel, NRA TV. A scholar looks at what its videos are actually about.
Videos serving up jihadi content are being targeted by the Home Office.
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Machine learning isn’t reliable enough yet – and it’s short-sighted to only train this detection tech on jihadi content.
Saliha (left) and Alexia in 2012. Alexia no longer wears the veil.
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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.
Is there an echo here?
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More and more, news items, adverts and posts by friends are blurred in Facebook’s interface. This all merges into a single stream of information.
‘Antifasc’ as portrayed in Romper Stomper.
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Stan’s remake of the 1992 film Romper Stomper swaps skinhead culture for the complexities of contemporary Australian extremist politics. In doing so, it highlights disillusion with mainstream politicians and media.
A man breaks down next to the caskets of three of the six victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting during funeral services in February 2017 in Montreal.
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As Canadians, we shouldn’t blame U.S. President Donald Trump for the rise of hatred here. He may have emboldened the so-called alt-right in Canada, but it was flourishing long before his election.
Mubin Shaikh, a Toronto-born de-radicalization expert, speaks during a counter-terrorism event in Germany in May 2015.
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No country is immune to terrorism, but de-radicalizing people who have been attracted to terrorist organizations like ISIS can work.
Britain First leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen.
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The US president has lent legitimacy to a small group of right-wing extremists by sharing its content.
Interreligious gathering of prayer for peace ceremony, October 2017.
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There is a battle of Buddhisms taking place on the streets of Myanmar.