1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement
The Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement offers an overview of the historical settings, theoretical debates, national approaches and practical strategies to deradicalisation and disengagement.
Radicalisation and violent extremism are major global challenges, and as new and violent extremist groups and environments emerge, there is an increasing need for knowledge about how individuals physically exit these movements and how to change their mindset. Historically, much of the focus on these topics has been highly securitised and militarised; by contrast, this volume explores the need for more community-based and ‘soft’ approaches. The handbook includes discussions from both right-wing/left-wing political and religiously inspired deradicalisation processes.
The handbook is organised into three parts:
1 definitions, backgrounds and theories;
2 actors;
3 regional case studies.
This handbook will be of much interest to students, researchers, scholars and professionals of deradicalisation, counterterrorism, political violence, political extremism, security studies and international relations in general.
1 Why do we need a handbook on disengagement and deradicalisation?
Stig Jarle Hansen and Stian Lid
PART I: Definitions, backgrounds and theories
2 Terminology and definitions
Daniel Koehler
3 Concepts and practices: a brief history of disengagement and deradicalisation 26
Stig Jarle Hansen
4 Exploring the viability of phase-based models in (de)radicalization
Liesbeth Mann, Lars Nickolson, Allard R. Feddes, Bertjan Doosje, and Fathali M. Moghaddam
5 Psychological approaches to terrorist rehabilitation: direct and indirect mechanisms of deradicalization
David Webber, Marina Chernikova, Erica Molinario, and Arie W. Kruglanski
6 Gender, deradicalisation and disengagement
Jennifer Philippa Eggert
7 Deradicalization or DDR?: The challenges emerging from variations in forms of territorial control
Stig Jarle Hansen
8 “Welcome” home: deradicalization of Jihadi foreign fighters
Arie Perliger
PART II: Actors
9 Prison-based deradicalization: what do we need to determine what works?
Jessica Stern and Paige Pascarelli
10 Local governments’ role in disengagement, deradicalisation and reintegration initiatives
Stian Lid
11 Civil actors’ role in deradicalisation and disengagement initiatives: when trust is essential
Tina Wilchen Christensen
12 Deradicalization through religious education
Rached Ghannouchi
13 United Nations and counter-terrorism: strategy, structure and prevention of violent extremism conducive to terrorism: a practitioner’s view
Hans-Jakob Schindler
14 Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union
Sarah Léonard, Christian Kaunert, and Ikrom Yakubov
15 African Union initiatives to counter terrorism and develop deradicalisation strategies
Anneli Botha
PART III: Regional case studies
16 Deradicalisation and disengagement in the Benelux: a variety of local approaches
Amy-Jane Gielen
17 Desistance and disengagement programme in the UK Prevent strategy: a public health analysis 224
Mohammed Samir Elshimi
18 Promoting disengagement from violent extremism in Scandinavia: what, who, how?
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen and Jakob Ilum
19 Deradicalisation: China’s panacea for conflict resolution in Xinjiang
Bhavna Singh
20 Deradicalization and disengagement: context, actors, strategies and approaches in South Asia
Bahadar Nawab
21 The politics of deradicalization in Israel/Palestine
Lihi Ben Shitrit
22 Disengagement and preventing/countering violent extremism in the Horn of Africa: an analysis of contemporary approaches and discussion of the role disengagement can play in preventing/countering violent extremism
Martine Zeuthen
23 Turning the page on extremism: deradicalization in the North American context
Mubin Shaikh, Hicham Tiflati, Phil Gurski, and Amarnath Amarasingam
24 Deradicalization and disengagement in Latin America
Irina A. Chindea
25 Conclusion
Stig Jarle Hansen and Stian Lid
Index
Biography
Stig Jarle Hansen is a professor and leader of the international relations programme at the Norwegian University of Life Science.
Stian Lid is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research at Oslo Metropolitan University.