Leaving Terrorism Behind

<p>This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism.</p><p>While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism, disengagement and deradicalization from terrorism have long been neglected areas in research on terrorism. This book uses empirical data to explore how and why individuals and groups disengage from terrorism, and what can be done to facilitate it. The work also presents a series of case studies of disengagement programmes, from Colombia, northern Europe, Italy, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, comparing and assessing their various strengths and weaknesses. In light of the lessons learned from these cases, this book describes and explains the potential for new developments in counter-terrorism.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to all students of terrorism studies, war and conflict studies, international security and politics in general, as well as professionals in the field of counter-terrorism. </p> <p>Foreword (TBC) 1. Introduction <em>Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan </em><strong>Part 1: Processes</strong> 2. Individual disengagement: A psychological analysis <em>John Horgan </em>3. Processes of disengagement from violent groups of the extreme right <em>Tore Bjørgo </em>4. How terrorist campaigns end <em>Audrey Kurth Cronin</em> 5. Leaving left-wing terrorism in Italy: A sociological analysis <em>Donatella della Porta</em> 6. Leaving terrorism behind in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: reassessing anti terrorist policies and the "peace processes" <em>Rogelio Alonso</em> 7. The renunciation of violence by Egyptian jihadi organisations <em>Diaa Rashwan </em><strong>Part 2: Programmes </strong>8. Exit from right-wing extremist groups: Lessons from disengagement programmes in Norway, Sweden and Germany <em>Tore Bjørgo, Sara Grunenberg and Jaap van Donselaar</em> 9. Disengagement and Beyond: A case study of demobilization in Colombia <em>Marcella Ribetti</em> 10. De-radicalisation and rehabilitation programmes targeting militant jihadists: An overview <em>Richard Barrett and Laila Bokhari</em> 11. Opening up the Jihadi debate: Yemen’s Committee for Dialogue <em>Christopher Boucek, Shazadi Beg, and John Horgan</em> 12. The rehabilitation of Jemaah Islamiyah detainees in Southeast Asia: A preliminary assessment <em>Zachary Abuza</em> 13. Extremist reeducation and rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia <em>Christopher Boucek </em>14. Pakistan: In search of a disengagement strategy <em>Shazadi Beg and Laila Bokhari</em> <strong> Part 3: Conclusions</strong> 15. Conclusions <em>Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan</em> </p>