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This article argues that Prevent, Britain's counter-radicalisation policy, has been an important and under-analysed site for contemporary renegotiations of threat; first, in that it seeks to act on threats existing within a radically unknowable future, and second, in terms of how it identifies ...
“There has never been a more important time for us to come together to tackle the dangers of radicalisation and ensure that extremist ideologies are robustly challenged,” Jo Johnson, the universities minister, said this week. We need Prevent more than ever. Those who brought the legal challeng...
Prevent operates in a pre-criminal space, providing support and re-direction to vulnerable individuals at risk of being groomed into terrorist activities before any crimes are committed. Radicalisation could be comparable to other forms of harm and abuse. It is therefore considered a safeguarding issu...
Officially, Prevent entails three strands of work. There’s work on “tackling the causes of radicalisation” that helps build resilience in communities – for example by funding community-led projects as well as removing terrorist content from the internet. There’s “early intervention for those ...
The Prevent policy was introduced in the UK in 2003 as part of an overall post 9/11 counter-terrorism approach (CONTEST), with the aim of preventing the radicalisation of individuals to terrorism. In 2015, the Prevent policy became a legal duty for publi
This training session, delivered by the charity Just Enough, is part of Prevent, the UK government’s ground war against violent extremism. The programme is the most controversial aspect of its counter-terrorism strategy, seeking both to educate communities on the risks of radicalisation and to st...
The UK Counter Terrorism and Security Act (2015) (CTSA) calls for a partnership between the government, individuals, organisations and communities to prevent the radicalisation of individuals and to prevent their participation in terrorist and illegal activities. As part of this strategy, universities...