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Resilience and Belonging

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Developing resilience to negative peer influence as well as to those political and social events that may inform the motivation to re-engage in extremism is vital to long-term desistance. In reviewing some of the methods tried by probation officers and community mentors to develop resilience, this chapter examines two issues: critical thinking and social identity. Nurturing critical thinking and critical consumption skills were considered vital to sustaining long-term disengagement. Similarly, developing a broader social identity rather than the single-minded focus on a narrow conception of identity related to the radical group was a central part of what practitioners believed was important. Interpreting these processes in the context of desistance-based models of reintegration offers a conceptual foundation for understanding why and how developing resilience is important.

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Marsden, S.V. (2017). Resilience and Belonging. In: Reintegrating Extremists. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55019-4_4

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