Mind over martyr: how to deradicalize islamist extremists
Type
Publication
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Category
Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
Pages
14p
Subject
Militants, Terrorism, Religion, Security
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Abstract
Is it possible to deradicalize terrorists and their potential recruits?
Saudi Arabia, a pioneer in rehabilitation eªorts, claims that it is. Since
2004, more than 4,000 militants have gone through Saudi Arabia’s
programs, and the graduates have been reintegrated into mainstream
society much more successfully than ordinary criminals. Governments
elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout Europe and Southeast
Asia have launched similar programs for neo-Nazis,far-right militants,
narcoterrorists, and Islamist terrorists, encouraging them to abandon
their radical ideology or renounce their violent means or both.
Saudi Arabia, a pioneer in rehabilitation eªorts, claims that it is. Since
2004, more than 4,000 militants have gone through Saudi Arabia’s
programs, and the graduates have been reintegrated into mainstream
society much more successfully than ordinary criminals. Governments
elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout Europe and Southeast
Asia have launched similar programs for neo-Nazis,far-right militants,
narcoterrorists, and Islamist terrorists, encouraging them to abandon
their radical ideology or renounce their violent means or both.
Description
14 p.; illus.; 25 cm
Number of Copies
1