Essays about: "counter-radicalization"

Found 2 essays containing the word counter-radicalization.

1. 1. Countering pro-violent extremism – compromising contentious political engagement : a critical discourse analysis of the Swedish counter extremism initiative and its impact upon local political practices and contentious left wing political engagement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Rebecca Asmundsson Fristedt; [2017]
   Keywords : CDA; Pro-violent extremism; Antagonism; Counter-democratic civic culture; Power; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The thesis builds upon a critical discourse analysis and ethnographic methods such as interviews and participatory observation, in an effort to contribute with original research about how the Swedish counter radicalization project discursively constructs political engagement as “pro-violent” and “anti-democratic”, and how these constructions impacts local political practices. The analysis reveals contradicting discourses within the core concepts used by the preventative project, and that these have various forms impacts within a variety of dimensions. READ MORE

3. 2. Preventing Radicalization in Prisons: A comparative analysis of the Danish and Swedish Prison and Probation Service's counter-radicalization strategies within prisons

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

   Author : Sara Christiansen; [2017]
   Keywords : deradicalization; life-course and developmental criminology; militant islamism; prison; radicalization; rehabilitation; violence; violent extremism;

   Abstract : It is important to direct resources to effective evidence- and value-based counter-radicalization strategies, especially within prisons. With the increasing threat ofviolence and terror from various violent extremist groups, such as Daesh, thefocus on prisons should be intensified. READ MORE