Counter-terrorism from within assessing Saudi Arabia’s religious rehabilitation and disengagement programme
Type
Publication
Authors
Category
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom
Volume
V153
Pages
6p
Subject
Terrorism, Religious, Rehabilitation, Islamist
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Abstract
Following a series of deadly domestic terrorist attacks in 2003, the government of Saudi Arabia began an ambitious and wide-ranging counterterrorism effort. In addition to traditional security and law enforcement efforts to kill and capture terrorists, a parallel strategy was launched to combat the ideological justifications for violent extremism within the kingdom. This ‘soft’ counter-terrorism strategy is made up of three components: prevention programmes to deter people from getting involved with violent extremism, rehabilitation programmes designed to encourage supporters and sympathisers to renounce violence, and aftercare programmes to prevent recidivism and to reintegrate people back into Saudi society.
Description
6 p.; illus.; 29 cm
Number of Copies
1