Terrorist Rehabilitation: A New Frontier in Counter-Terrorism - A New Frontier in Counter-Terrorism

With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabilities in parallel with strengthening their law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities. Terrorist Rehabilitation: A New Frontier in Counter-terrorism aims to provide an understanding of the importance of the approach and strategy of terrorist rehabilitation in countering this threat.
Comprising of nine chapters, this book provides case study assessments of terrorist rehabilitation practices set against the backdrop of their unique operational and geopolitical milieu in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. This will help the reader to form a foundational understanding of the concept of terrorist rehabilitation by combining the insights, successes and experience of senior government officials and counter-terrorism experts. In addition, the contributors provide discussions on religious concepts that have been manipulated by violent Islamists as a background to understanding religiously or ideologically motivated terrorism and the avenues open for countering it.

Summary

With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabilities in parallel with strengthening their law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities.

Product details

• Authors: Mohamed Bin Ali, Rohan Gunaratna, Rohan (Ntu Gunaratna, Rohan Ali Gunaratna, Gunaratna Rohan, Rohan Gunaratna & Mohamed Bin Ali
• Assisted by: Mohamed Bin Ali (Editor), Mohamed Bin Ali (Editor), Mohamed (Ntu Bin Ali (Editor), Rohan Gunaratna (Editor), Rohan (Ntu Gunaratna (Editor)
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781783267439
• ISBN: 978-1-78326-743-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Imperial College Press Insurge; Imperial College Press Insurgency and Terrorism Series; Insurgency and Terrorism Series; Insurgency And Terrorism Series; Insurgency and Terrorism
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education