Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and Collective Disengagement

by Bjorgo; Tore

• ISBN13: 9780415776677
• ISBN10: 0415776678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism. While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism, disengagement and deradicalization from terrorism have long been neglected areas in research on terrorism. This book uses empirical data to explore how and why individuals and groups disengage from terrorism, and what can be done to facilitate it. The work also presents a series of case studies of disengagement programmes, from Colombia, northern Europe, Italy, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, comparing and assessing their various strengths and weaknesses. In light of the lessons learned from these cases, this book describes and explains the potential for new developments in counter-terrorism. This book will be of great interest to all students of terrorism studies, war and conflict studies, international security and politics in general, as well as professionals in the field of counter-terrorism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of tables	p. xii
Notes on contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Processes	p. 15
Individual disengagement: a psychological analysis	p. 17
Processes of disengagement from violent groups of the extreme right	p. 30
How terrorist campaigns end	p. 49
Leaving underground organizations: a sociological analysis of the Italian case	p. 66
Leaving terrorism behind in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: reassessing anti-terrorist policies and the 'peace processes'	p. 88
The renunciation of violence by Egyptian jihadi organizations	p. 113
Programmes	p. 133
Exit from right-wing extremist groups: lessons from disengagement programmes in Norway, Sweden and Germany	p. 135
Disengagement and beyond: a case study of demobilization in Colombia	p. 152
Deradicalization and rehabilitation programmes targeting religious terrorists and extremists in the Muslim world: an overview	p. 170
Opening up the jihadi debate: Yemen's Committee for Dialogue	p. 181
The rehabilitation of Jemaah Islamiyah detainees in South East Asia: a preliminary assessment	p. 193
Extremist re-education and rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia	p. 212
Pakistan: in search of a disengagement strategy	p. 224
Conclusions	p. 243
Conclusions	p. 245
Notes	p. 256
Index	p. 299
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