Background A report by Arun Kundnani, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and Ben Hayes, a researcher and consultant specialising in human rights, applied ethics, and data protection, “brings much needed attention to the global deployment of increasingly standardized policies countering violent extremism”[1]. Kundnani … [Read more...] about Report sheds light on the harmful globalisation of countering violent extremism policies
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Jailing of Parsons Green bomber raises questions about effectiveness of Prevent
Ahmed Hassan, an Iraqi asylum-seeker, has been sentenced to thirty-four years in jail for trying to detonate a homemade bomb on a rush-hour London commuter train at Parsons Green station in Fulham in September 2017. Although the bomb, which was packed with shrapnel, did not properly detonate, thirty people were injured as flames engulfed the carriage[1] and people struggled to … [Read more...] about Jailing of Parsons Green bomber raises questions about effectiveness of Prevent
Report warns of “war against Islam” days after UK’s most senior terror officer warns of threat of far-right
The UK’s most senior terror officer, Mark Rowley, the outgoing assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has warned that far-right terrorists pose an “organised and significant” threat to the UK, stating that four associated plots have been foiled in the past year. He says this illustrates the growth of this form of terrorism, which is more challenging than public … [Read more...] about Report warns of “war against Islam” days after UK’s most senior terror officer warns of threat of far-right