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'Radicalisation' has often seemed the key to understanding, and preventing, modern terrorism. This site aims to gather high-quality academic research on radicalisation and make it easily accessible for policymakers, journalists and anyone else whose work deals with this area. It is managed by the Religion and Society Research Programme.
Islam's bloody innards? Religion and political terror, 1980-2000
This quantitative analysis is a useful addition to the evidence base addressing whether or not Islam is especially violent.
What's so 'religious' about 'religious terrorism'?
This article focuses on the concept 'religious terrorism' and assesses its validity and some of the effects of its usage. The authors argue that 'religious terrorism' is both conceptually suspect as well as empirically problematic.
The New Radical Right: violent and non-violent movements in Europe
This paper discusses the rise of the radical right in Europe as well as right-wing extremist violence.
Establishing official Islam? The law and strategy of counter-radicalization
This article provides both a good introductory survey to approaches to counter-radicalisation, placing US efforts in the context of European practices.
Reconsidering radicalisation and terrorism: the New Muslims movement in Kabardino-Balkaria and its path to violence: the New Muslims movement in Kabardino-Balkaria and its path to violence: the New Muslims movement in Kabardino-Balkaria and its path to violence
Focusing on the case of the Kabardino-Balkarian Jamaat, the authors use research on New Religious Movements to explore its move to violence.
Religion, State and Society - Special Issue
A special issue of a journal, with papers based on new primary research, that focuses on Muslim young people in Britain and Russia.
Suicide Bombers: Allah's new martyrs
This book makes the claim that an important distinction should be made between two types of jihadist martyrdoms.
Flimsy fundamentalism infuses the third wave of terror
A flimsy fundamentalism, more to do with rage and thrill-seeking than deep religious commitments, is behind the recent wave of amateur terrorism.
Radicalisation and the Arab Spring
Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on the fortunes of Jihadist movements in the Middle East, Khosrokhavar argues that it dealt a major blow to their wider attraction.
What causes Radicalisation? Main lines of consensus in recent research.
Introductory guide to the causes of radicalisation.
