Leaving Terrorism Behind
Individual and Collective Disengagement
Description:... This volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism, based on empirical data with (former) participants. Until now, little research has been carried out to explore these processes and to evaluate how disengagement works. An important practical contribution is the chapters exploring various programmes for disengagement, rehabilitation, dialogue and amnesty for Jihadis and participants in other terrorist groups. The contributors look at movements in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Italy, Scandinavia, and Colombia, exploring the conditions under which these programmes work, or do not work, and consider the ways in which they are designed may make them more or less adaptive to their tasks of facilitating disengagement. These studies will also demonstrate why disengagement from terrorism may not be the same as ideological deradicalization. There is now great policy-level interest in these topics and as such this volume is extremely timely and relevant to current counter-terrorism activities. Leaving Terrorism Behind will be of great interest to all students of terrorism studies, international security and politics in general, as well as professionals in the field of counter-terrorism.
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