WALKING AWAY FROM TERRORISM IBD

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Thisáaccessible new bookálooks atáhow and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups sucháas Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the dramatic and sometimes extraordinary accounts that the terrorists themselves offered to the authoráabout why they left terrorism behind.á The bookáexamines three major issues: what we currently know about de-radicalisation and disengagement how discussions with terrorists about their experiences of disengagement can show how exit routes come about, and how they thenáfare as âÇÖex-terroristsâÇÖ away from the structures that protected them what the implications of these findingsáare for law-enforcement officers, policy-makers and civil society on a global scale. Concluding with a series of thought-provoking yet controversial suggestions for future efforts at controlling terrorist behaviour,áWalking Away From Terrorismáprovides an comprehensive introduction to disengagement and de-radicalisation and offers policymakers a series of considerations for the development of counter-radicalization and de-radicalisation processes. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism and political violence, war and conflict studies, security studies and political psychology. John Horganáis Director of theáInternationaláCenteráfor the Study of Terrorism at theáPennsylvaniaáStateáUniversity. He is one of the worldâÇÖs leading experts on terrorist psychology, and has authored over 50 publications in this field, recent books include theáThe Psychology of Terrorismá(Routledge 2005) andáLeaving Terrorism Behindá(co-edited, Routledge 2008)