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From Threat to Opportunity

Re-examining the relationship between violent and non-violent radicalisation

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• The Turban Effect? I posted an article in Comment is free yesterday, which you can read here.  The article draws attention to a new experiment that claims to offer fresh evidence of Islamophobia, albeit with a twist:  that our biases towards Muslims are in some instances unconscious.  The author of the experiment attributes to biased popular and news media and has deemed his findings the Turban Effect.  continue reading Posted by Jonathan Birdwell on 9th July 2008
• Podcast: Community Based Counter-Terrorism So, apparently the police are watching 2,000 terror suspects, but they aren’t the only ones watching them – there’s the rest of us too. Last week Jamie Bartlett gave a lecture about community based approaches to counter terrorism - the terror threat may come from global networks, but it’s in local communities that young Muslims become radicalised. Jamie's lecture makes up this weeks podcast (it's 35 minutes long).You can listen to the free Demos podcast...1.... continue reading 13th November 2007

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