Preventing Extremism in Schools

  • Shamim Miah
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the government flagship de-radicalisation project called Prevent. It shows how the Prevent policy, in light of the Counter-Terrorism Security Act 2015, embeds the question of security within the political and educational landscape of Muslims in Britain. It assess the ways Prevent discourse in general and the Channel programme in particular construct Muslims as a security threat by defining and re-defining nature of extremism from violent extremism to non-violent extremism. More crucially, it questions some of the evidence base underpinning the government’s de-radicalisation initiatives.

Keywords

Contest Prevent Channel extremism Counter terrorism security act 2015 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Shamim Miah
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  1. 1.University of HuddersfieldHuddersfieldUnited Kingdom

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