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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Sean Arbuthnot
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…