Journal Articles
Useful journal articles for advocates against counter-extremism and the UK Prevent strategy.
The People's Review of Prevent
The People’s Review of Prevent is an alternative review to the Government Shawcross Review.
This review provides a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty.
Prevent is described as ‘safeguarding’ children from harms. However, under Prevent, safeguarding is focused on protecting the wider public from children believed to be ‘risky’, rather than protecting children from harms.
Throughout our report we present case studies that show how real these harms can be and the distress they cause to children and their families and carers.
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual' is of interest to those concerned with the foundational assumptions of counter-extremism, especially current 'radicalisation' theories, whether in the UK or globally...
The UK government's preventing violent extremism programme was exposed in 2010 as being both failed and counter-productive - this article shows how...