Countering Violent Extremism

Tahir Abbas is Associate Professor in Terrorism and Political Violence, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Netherlands.

• About the bookAcknowledgementsPart One Terrorism and states1 Definitional challenges2 State terrorism3 The counter-terror state4 Genocide and ethnic cleansingPart Two Disentangling violent extremism5 Individual factors in terrorism6 The social science of extremism7 Reciprocal radicalization8 Countering reciprocal radicalization9 The UK ‘Prevent’ agendaPart Three Deradicalization10 Leaving terrorism behind11 Disordered deradicalization12 Driven to hate13 Terror politicsNotesBibliographyIndex

A wide-ranging and provocative treatment of political violence today. Countering Violent Extremism not only provides researchers with a set of critical resources through which to interrogate dominant conceptions of extremism and terrorism. It also offers practitioners an important set of tools with which to situate and address diverse forms of violence. The book deserves the wide audience it will no doubt receive.