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Between two stools? the government's 'Preventing Violent Extremism' agenda [PDF]

, 2009
The 7/7 London suicide bombings of July 2005 and numerous subsequent Islamist terror plots have highlighted the reality of an 'internal' threat to Britain. One governmental response has been the 'Preventing Violent Extremism' (PVE) programme.
PAUL THOMAS, Thomas, Paul
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Breaking up the Bubble: Improving critical thinking skills and tolerance of ambiguity in deradicalization mentoring.

Journal for Deradicalization, 2022
In response to a complex world, radicalized individuals tend to retract into black-and-white thinking, preference for easy solutions for complicated problems, or belief in conspiracy theories.
Irina Jugl
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Preventing violent extremism : a delicate balance [PDF]

, 2021
Violent extremism poses a serious challenge for many countries. In Europe, two types of violent extremism dominate policy discussions: right-wing and jihadist.
ZELLER, Michael, VIDRA, Zsuzsanna
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From Conversion to Violent Extremism: Empirical Analysis of Three Canadian Muslim Converts to Islam

Journal for Deradicalization, 2021
The scholarship on radicalization to violence often treats born Muslims and converts interchangeably; far too little research is focused on understanding the factors and processes driving converts in particular.
Denis Suljić, Alex Wilner
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On Extremal Multiflows

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 2000
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Hagai Ilani, Ephraim Korach, Michael Lomonosov   +2 more
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Mandelbrot's Extremism [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
In the sixties Mandelbrot already showed that extreme price swings are more likely than some of us think or incorporate in our models.A modern toolbox for analyzing such rare events can be found in the field of extreme value theory.At the core of extreme value theory lies the modelling of maxima over large blocks of observations and of excesses over ...
Beirlant, Jan, Schoutens, Wim, Segers, Johan   +2 more
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Reporting Anti-LGBTQI Hate Crime to the PoliceFirst-Hand Experiences and Reasons for not Reporting

Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing
This study investigates the views and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex (LGBTQI) people in Norway of reporting hate crimes to the police, using more than 3000 responses to open-ended survey questions.
Rune Ellefsen, Kristina Os, Mona Hovland Jakobsen   +2 more
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The etymology of “Islamic extremism”: A misunderstood term?

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
Dealing with Islamic extremism without considering the meaning and context of the term itself leads to a narrow understanding of the phenomenon and its implications.
Barend Louwrens Prinsloo
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Extremism from the perspective of a system approach [PDF]

Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2014
Extremism is seen as a complex, multilevel, and multicomponent phenomenon. The problems of modern science in understanding extremism are revealed. The following bases of extremism as a system phenomenon are singled out: social factors, latent extremism ...
Zinchenko, Yury P.
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Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism - Failing to Prevent [PDF]

, 2012
The shocking 7/7 London bombings and subsequent plots have confirmed the Islamist terrorist threat faced by the UK. How should we understand such home-grown terrorism, and how successful since 2005 have government attempts to ‘prevent violent extremism ...
Thomas, Paul
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