Sean Arbuthnot

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How can we prevent acts of violence such as the mass shooting in Plymouth?

The UK is still coming to terms with the unbearably tragic events of 12 August, when police were called to a mass shooting in the Keyham area of Plymouth. The 22-year-old perpetrator…

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7 min

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Can Community Engagement Counter The Radical Right?

Recently I was grateful for the opportunity to participate in an online CARR panel that asked a very searching question, one that as a Prevent Coordinator I’ve asked myself many…

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5 min

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Mentoring the radical right: talking to a Channel referral and his mentor

“There is no doubt in my mind that by far the most important and effective element of Channel is mentoring.” “The main reason I left the far right was because…

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5 min

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What do the latest Prevent statistics tell us about the radical right in the UK?

It strikes me as odd that the UK’s Prevent Strategy is regularly called secretive, lacking in transparency and likened to spying. This is because, for some time now, the Home…

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5 min

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Reciprocal Radicalisation – Practical Examples of Prevent Support

As a practitioner working in Prevent I am always grateful for the opportunity to engage with and learn from academia. Whilst I cannot profess to have any theoretical or conceptual…

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4 min

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UK Prevent: Building Resilience to Radicalisation through Critical Thinking

“Schools should be safe spaces in which children and young people can understand and discuss sensitive topics, including terrorism and the extremist ideas that are part of terrorist ideology, and…

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Prevent, radicalism, radical islam, radical right,

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5 min

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Journey of a Radical Right Prevent Referral

The Home Office has recently released its latest set of statistics on the UK Prevent strategy and Channel programme for the period April 2016 to March 2017. Perhaps the standout headline was…

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Building Resilience Against the Radical Right Through RealTalk

A few days after the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack on 22nd March 2017, a Midlands-based youth worker arrived at work to find a group of teens gathered around a tablet,…

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How can we prevent acts of violence such as the mass shooting in Plymouth?

Can Community Engagement Counter The Radical Right?

Mentoring the radical right: talking to a Channel referral and his mentor

What do the latest Prevent statistics tell us about the radical right in the UK?

Reciprocal Radicalisation – Practical Examples of Prevent Support

UK Prevent: Building Resilience to Radicalisation through Critical Thinking

Journey of a Radical Right Prevent Referral

Building Resilience Against the Radical Right Through RealTalk

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)