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.
As part of discussions about academic freedom in the UK, John Holmwood asks why the harms of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent have not featured in relation to concerns about
Epidemic Empire will be of interest for post-colonial studies as a background to counter-extremism, and for those concerned with the presence of Prevent in healthcare.
Kawtar Najib’s 2021 book reveals the multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia in Paris and London. Najib also questions the whiteness of the discipline of geography, which impacts studies of this kind.
Terror and the Dynamism of Islamophobia in 21st Century Britain is a 700-page treatise on anti-Muslim sentiment from within post-colonial studies and within wider racial politics.
Using the largest data set collected in the UK at the time (2015–18), Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived in UK higher education.
This chapter ‘The demography of ethnic minorities in Britain’ was used as a reference in the People’s Review of Prevent to disprove the first argument used for Prevent: “social cohesion”.
Written by John Berger and published in August 2018, this book attempts to understand what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can lead to violence.
In this monograph focusing on the problems and limitations of British attempts to “prevent violent extremism” relevant to its time, Thomas argues for “new, cohesion-based approaches”.
