Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation in Higher Education

Catherine McGlynn is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research focuses on Northern Ireland with respect to conflict resolution and party politics. Her last book was Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Paramilitary Prisoners and Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland from Manchester University Press (co-authored with Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge and James W. McAuley) which was the Political Studies Association of Ireland Book of the year in 2011.Shaun McDaid is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research and teaching interests include the conflict in Northern Ireland, but also the dynamics of political violence and attempts to prevent it more generally. He is the author of Template for Peace: Northern Ireland, 1972-75 (Manchester University Press, 2013), and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• 1.Introduction 2.Radicalisation: Debate and Policy 3.Universities, Terrorism and Radicalisation 4.Radicalisation and HE Governance 5.Radicalisation and the University Classroom 6.Conclusion and Recommendations

This volume explores radicalization and counter-radicalization at universities, focusing on how the Prevent Duty aspect of the UK's Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, the legal duty to have "due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism," is implemented in English universities in terms of the experiences of staff and students. It also places the discussion in the context of broader debates about the nature of radicalization and the efficacy of attempts to counter it and demonstrates that universities have been sites of radical political activity for a long time, as well as sites where states have intervened and monitored. It discusses the origins of radicalization as a concept, including how it has been related to ideas of extremism and applied in contemporary counterterrorism policy; radicalization and higher education and how university campuses have played a role in political radicalism; how the Prevent Duty has been implemented in a university setting in terms of governance and the classroom; and implications of the findings and recommendations for policymakers and university staff and students.