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Terrorist rehabilitation and counter-radicalisation : new approaches to counter-terrorism / edited by Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard, and Lawrence Rubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cass series on political violence.
- Cass series on political violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorists--Rehabilitation.
- Terrorists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional rehabilitation programs have led convicted and suspected terrorists to express remorse, repent, and recant their violent ideologies and re-enter mainstream politics, religion and society. Although operational counter-terrorism initiatives have received both investment and attention, strategic
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Rohan Gunaratna and Lawrence Rubin; 2. Islamist deradicalization in algeria: the case of the Islamic Salvation Army and affiliated militias: Omar Ashour; 3. Non-kinetic approaches to counter-terrorism: a case study of Egypt and the Islamic Group: Lawrence Rubin; 4. Terrorist rehabilitation: the Singapore experience: Rohan Gunaratna and Mohamed Feisal Bin Mohamed Hassan; 5. Terrorist rehabilitation: the Saudi experience: Abdulrahman Al-Hadlaq
- 6. Extremist disengagement in Saudi Arabia: prevention, rehabilitation and aftercare: Christopher Boucek7. Thinking strategically about terrorist rehabilitation: lessons from Iraq: Douglas M. Stone; 8. Dialogue and its effects on countering terrorism: the Yemeni experience: Hamoud Abdulhameed Al-Hitar; 9. Challenges of establishing a rehabilitation programme in Pakistan: Tariq Parvez; 10. Aspects of deradicalization: Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele J. Gelfand, and Rohan Gunaratna; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-04032-8
- 9786613040329
- 1-136-82265-8
- 0-203-83048-2
- 9780203830482
- OCLC:
- 707067662
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