Note
Authors affiliated with:
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.
"TSAS is supported as a national strategic initiative funded by SSHRC and Public Safety Canada, along with the following departments of the federal government: Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)".
Summary
"This review was commissioned by TSAS to survey the ways in which academic researchers have been trying to understand the experiences of exclusion by marginalized youth, and how these might relate to trajectories of radicalization to violent extremism, and community-level security interventions. The primary purpose of this review is to consider the turn to community engagement, or "soft" security measures, as a strategy for countering violent radicalization and extremism. While community engagement as a security strategy is not entirely new, our understanding of its use and effects is still being developed. As such, this review was commissioned to encourage dialogue, evaluation, and discussion about these strategies and their implementation in Canada, by considering the international academic literature on community engagement for
the purpose of countering violent extremism."--Text from Introduction.
Contents
Introduction -- Key terms --
Radicalization --
Extremism --
Terrorism --
Islamism/Islamists -- 1. The social context: is there a relationship between social inclusion/exclusion & extremist eadicalization? -- 1.1. Social exclusion/inclusion -- 1.2. Tenuous links between social exclusion & violent radicalization -- 2. Modes of engagement around issues of security -- 2.1.
From "hard" to "soft" security strategies --2.2.
Framing security policy with concepts of social cohesion and community resilience -- 2.3.
The quest for social cohesion -- 2.4.
Building resilience: local solutions to local problems -- 2.5.
Major critiques of soft security policy -- 2.6.
Rehabilitating community relations & trust-building -- 3. Impacts of "soft" security policies and programs on minority communities -- 3.1.
The problem of evaluation -- 3.2.
Suspect communities -- 3.3.
Unintended impacts & negative effects -- Conclusion -- References.