Summary
There are many examples of terrorist acts committed by radicalized Europeans with an immigrant heritage. This collective text shows how to prevent home-grown terrorism and what strategies should be developed to hinder its development. It includes recommendations on how to counteract processes that provide a fertile subsoil for terrorism to develop.
Contents
Section 1. Terrorism and/or Radicalisation in Special Areas and Populations -- 1. Islamism: the process of identity formation / Latéfa Belarouci --- 2. Pathways to Jihad—radicalisation and the case of Pakistan: a way forward? / Laila Bokhari -- 3. Radicalisation and deradicalisation: Dutch experiences / Albert Jongman -- 4. Police and Muslim communities in London: countering Al-Qaida influence and Islamophobia / Robert Lambert -- 5. Decreasing violence in Saudi Arabia and beyond / Sherifa Zuhur --
Section 2. Emergence and Organisation of Terrorism -- 6. Radicalization: what does It mean? / David R. Mandel -- 7. Reading their lips: the credibility of militant Jihadi Web sites as 'Soft Power' in the War of the minds / Reuven Paz -- 8. Political warfare, the Muslim brotherhood, and the targeting of America / Peter S. Probst -- 9. Al-Qaeda's radicalization doctrine: concept and execution / Yoram Schweitzer and Sean London -- 10. The militant Jihad in Europe: fighting home-grown terrorism / Anne Speckhard --
Section 3. The Societal Subsoil Nurturing Intolerant Militancy and Terrorism, as against Measures and Processes Nurturing Tolerance -- 11. The relevance of humiliation studies for the prevention of terrorism / Evelin G. Lindner -- 12. Beyond competing identities and ideologies: building resilience to radicalization in a world in transition / Elena Mustakova-Possardt -- 13. Societal fit and radicalisation: poorly managed absorption of immigrants and poor fit between the society of origin and the host society as predisposing factors to radicalisation / Thomas M. Pick -- 14. The cycle of righteous killing: psychological forces in its prevention and the promotion of peace / Tom Pyszczynski, Kenneth E. Vail III, Matthew S. Motyl -- 15. Religious metaphors in political discourse: examples from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Vera Kattermann -- 16. Recommendations from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop.