It’s rare for a news day to go by without some mention of extremism. But it’s also rare for the meaning of this word to be explained – so what does it mean?

The recent mass shooting in Orlando and the territorial losses of ISIS in Syria and Iraq have lead to concerns that more attacks will be orchestrated in the West, particularly in the United States, ...

Most Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) strategies assign a prominent role to counter or alternative narratives. The thinking behind these strategies goes something like this: groups like ...

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Few would disagree that preventing extremism is a laudable goal, but even discussing extremism and radicalization may seem problematic within the field of psychiatry. Psychiatry’s legitimacy is ...

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve said anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent is “very ineffective” in dealing with political extremism and young people “fixated on violence” without a specific ...