How can community practitioners spot the signs that someone is being radicalised? And what can be done to safeguard against it? Anna Scott reports

摘要

Four days after the general election resulted in a hung parliament and left prime minister Theresa May clinging to power, the UK Government announced a joint campaign with the French Government to tackle online radicalisatibn. This came in the aftermath of three terrorist attacks in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge in as many months. The terrorist attack on a London mosque that followed shone the spotlight on yet another kind of extremism. 'It's a reminder that terrorism, extremism and hatred take many forms,' the prime minister said in the aftermath. 'This government will act to stamp out extremist and hateful ideology - both across society and on the internet, so it is denied a safe space to grow.' The perceived fact that only one particular group is susceptible to radicalisation is completely untrue, agrees Sean Thomson, citizenship and cohesion adviser for the London Borough of Waltham Forest. 'There are a number of different groups operating across the UK, and indeed the European continent, that espouse what we consider to be extremist views which are dangerous, he adds.