Leaving Terrorism Behind

Tore Bjørgo is Professor at the Norwegian Police University College and Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has published extensively on terrorism, racist violence, youth gangs and crime prevention, and is author of Root Causes of Terrorism (2005).John Horgan is Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at The Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the world’s leading experts on terrorist psychology, and is author of over 50 publications in the field.

• Foreword (TBC) 1. Introduction Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan Part 1: Processes 2. Individual disengagement: A psychological analysis John Horgan 3. Processes of disengagement from violent groups of the extreme right Tore Bjørgo 4. How terrorist campaigns end Audrey Kurth Cronin 5. Leaving left-wing terrorism in Italy: A sociological analysis Donatella della Porta 6. Leaving terrorism behind in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: reassessing anti terrorist policies and the "peace processes" Rogelio Alonso 7. The renunciation of violence by Egyptian jihadi organisations Diaa Rashwan Part 2: Programmes 8. Exit from right-wing extremist groups: Lessons from disengagement programmes in Norway, Sweden and Germany Tore Bjørgo, Sara Grunenberg and Jaap van Donselaar 9. Disengagement and Beyond: A case study of demobilization in Colombia Marcella Ribetti 10. De-radicalisation and rehabilitation programmes targeting militant jihadists: An overview Richard Barrett and Laila Bokhari 11. Opening up the Jihadi debate: Yemen’s Committee for Dialogue Christopher Boucek, Shazadi Beg, and John Horgan 12. The rehabilitation of Jemaah Islamiyah detainees in Southeast Asia: A preliminary assessment Zachary Abuza 13. Extremist reeducation and rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia Christopher Boucek 14. Pakistan: In search of a disengagement strategy Shazadi Beg and Laila Bokhari Part 3: Conclusions 15. Conclusions Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan

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