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    Are French prisons ‘finishing schools’ for terrorism?

    A good 'Long read' in The Guardian on a topical subject:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/are-french-prisons-finishing-schools-for-terrorism

    This thread was closed in 2014, it has 24.6k...
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    Fighting terrorism: Do 'deradicalisation' camps really work?

    A long comprehensive article by Jason Burke of The Guardian, which assembles information from around the globe and tries give an answer to this:
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    Canada's growing problem: rehabilitation

    A thoughtful article, from a country with very few convicted terrorism prisoners and if Canada is struggling with a plan and implementation, how will others fare?
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    After Assassinations, Basque Killers Explain

    A rare insight into how Spain is accommodating it's violent past, now that the Basque separatist ETA has declared a ceasefire and the brave people on either...
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    Lessons from Saudi Arabia

    Spotted in an ICSR report on the Yemen:

    See main post (No. 57), with full copy of the ICSR report:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=12784&page=3
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    Canadian report (just prisons)

    This Canadian parliamentary report has some depth - in the variety of witnesses heard - and the testimony of Professor Andrew Silke (UK) on the effect of prison is...
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    From Rehabilitation to Recruitment

    Hat tip to a Canadian helper.

    The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has released a new report entitled ‘From Rehabilitation to Recruitment’, an in-depth look at the problem of prison radicalization –...
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    Ex-Guantanamo inmates 'fail rehab'

    The much-lauded and criticised Saudi rehab process has re-appeared after a rare official statement:

    More on the link:http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201062013047249951.html or...
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    After Yemeni AQ surge, the KSA responds

    I suppose this was to be expected and appearing in The Daily Telegraph is no surprise.

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    Terrorist Dropouts: Learning from those who have Left

    CT Blog pointer to a WINEP report starts with:

    I have asked about those who have given up the fight, not necessarily the cause and few academics appear to have considered this - so even if I've...
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    Saudi work critique

    A short article by Shiraz Maher on the Saudi Arabian prison de-radicalisation programme: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574643891690484198.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopBucket
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    Sect de-programming?

    Fuchs,

    I've read a few books on this theme and none refer to this activity. Some mention is made of leaving gangs behind. John Horgan has written on the issue, so maybe check his writings?
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    Saudi court case

    A different aspect to the traditional 'rehab' policy in Saudi Arabaia:...
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    Book recommended

    A good book on this theme is: 'Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and collective disengagement', edited by Tore Bjorgo and John Horgan (Pub by Routledge 2009). Some theoretical and general...
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    Pied Piper concept

    Typically Bob's World comments have led to some hard thinking about policy in the UK and in a May 2008 government paper on our nationals strategy:...
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    UK prisons and radicalisation

    This issue appears fairly reglarly, usually with a lurid news headline and then disappears. The link goes to an article which takes a longer view, the author works in a London "think tank" IISS:...
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    Muslim prisoners in Washington State

    Not earth shattering, but the figures on the numbers involved were new to this faraway observer: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090201/NEWS01/702019905&news01ad=1

    How the US CT regard such a...
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    Recycled the Saudi experience

    Once again the Saudi rehab programme for extremists via art gets an airing, last appeared in April 2008 with a showing at The Frontline Club, London (on this thread:...
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    Wicked problems - a fundamentalist fix?

    120mm,

    It is an add feature, in the UK and possibly elsewhere that some Salafist groups tackle extremism with their theological / ideological methods and thoughts. It came as a surprise to me to...
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    BBC Radio

    Tonight BBC Radio Four broadcast an intriguing forty minute piece entitled 'Is AQ Winning', amidst the issues was Information Operations and the Saudi prison programme. Podcast available on:...
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    Saudi Prisons again

    Try: Saudi Arabia showcases its controversial programme to rehabilitate convicted jihadis through art; on this link http://www.frontlineclub.com/club_articles.php?id=319

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