Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism: A Multidisciplinary Framework

This textbook helps students analyse the causes of violent extremism using different disciplinary approaches, and suggests concrete solutions from those perspectives. Why do individuals join violent extremist movements?This book approaches that question through seven disciplinary lenses: security, ideology, sociology, socio-economics, psychology, gender, and youth.Rather than privileging one explanation, it shows how these perspectives complement each other and why effective responses depend on combining them.The book is built on a simple premise: you cannot respond to violent extremism without first understanding what drives it.Each chapter maps the push and pull factors behind radicalisation and traces their implications for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation.To show the frameworks at work on real lives, the book includes profiles of six individuals who became involved in extremist movements.Each chapter is structured to guide students through the material step by step, com