A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization

Bhui, Kamaldeep; Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei; Lashley, Myrna; Jones, Edgar

doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-16

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“…As the security industry continues its expansion, we would like to address counter-radicalisation's novel pivot towards public health. A public health approach to counter-radicalisation has gained some traction in the last year, with Public Health Wales (Bellis and Hardcastle 2019) and academics advocating this solution (Bhui et al 2012). This approach frames the whole population potentially at risk of radicalisation, largely within a psychologising framework of risk factors detailed earlier.…”

Section: Developments: Public Health and Beyond Preventmentioning

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Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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In 2015, the UK government made its counter‐radicalisation policy a statutory duty for all National Health Service (NHS) staff. Staff are now tasked to identify and report individuals they suspect may be vulnerable to radicalisation. Prevent training employs a combination of psychological and ideological frames to convey the meaning of radicalisation to healthcare staff, but studies have shown that the threat of terrorism is racialised as well. The guiding question of our ethnography is: how is counter‐radicalisation training understood and practiced by healthcare professionals? A frame analysis draws upon 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork, which includes participant observation in Prevent training and NHS staff interviews. This article demonstrates how Prevent engages in performative colour‐blindness – the active recognition and dismissal of the race frame which associates racialised Muslims with the threat of terrorism. It concludes with a discussion of institutional racism in the NHS – how racialised policies like Prevent impact the minutia of clinical interactions; how the pretence of a ‘post‐racial’ society obscures institutional racism; how psychologisation is integral to the performance of colour‐blindness; and why it is difficult to address the racism associated with colourblind policies which purport to address the threat of the Far‐Right.

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Section: Developments: Public Health and Beyond Preventmentioning

confidence: 99%

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Friedrich Nietzsche Violent radicalization may be conceptualized as a morbid or malignant, individual and collective psychopathological process related to insane or distorted mental models of nationalism and religiosity, often facilitated by recruitment and training, by which an individual or group becomes increasingly committed to politically motivated violence, particularly against civilians (Bhui et al 2012). Mental models are about mental functioning, information processing and experiencing and defining the self and others.…”

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Spirituality, Religiosity and Nationalism From the Perspective of Public and Global Mental Health

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Despite the intensive globalization and an attractive idea of human cosmopolitism the world is still divided into rival nations and religions, with confronting ethics and many war conflicts across the globe producing and perpetuating huge mental health problems. Radicalism, malignant nationalism, pathological religiosity and violent extremism and terrorism are important issues from the public and global mental health perspective. Public and global mental health research can inform preventive strategies and interventions against malignant nationalism, pathological religiosity and violent extremism. Healthy spirituality, sound religiosity and normal nationalism may contribute significantly to public and global mental health and promotion of empathic civilization. The aim of this paper is to address, stress and support mutual understanding and creative cooperation between religions and nations in promotion of public and global mental health, research, patient care and education.

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“…Terrorist attacks cause widespread loss of life, physical injuries, psychological trauma and economic damage. There are additional societal costs in terms of social division, vilification of and discrimination against those perceived to be associated with or sympathetic to terrorist actions (Bhui et al, 2012). In terms of direct loss of life, the 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of almost 3000 people and in 2005 the terrorist attacks in London (UK) claimed the lives of 52 people.…”

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Violent Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism: Perspectives of Wellbeing and Social Cohesion of Citizens of Muslim Heritage

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After the 7/7 bombings radicalisation became a homegrown issue in the UK with Muslims born and brought up here being responsible for the attacks. This has had a subsequent impact on wellbeing and social cohesion in the UK. It feels that the Government's strategy of tackling radicalisation is ineffective and may be paradoxically serving to increase recruitment to radical groups. There is limited primary research from a sociological or a psychological perspective on the issue of radicalisation amongst the Muslim community in the UK. Two focus groups with six men and ten women, aged between 22 and 56, were established to determine the meaning of radicalisation to Muslims, gather experiences of the impact of the concept of radicalisation on the wellbeing of the Muslim community, understand more about the sociological and psychological processes that lead to radicalisation and gather in-group perspectives on how to tackle radicalisation as a means to promote social cohesion. Islamophobic media coverage and discrimination affected the wellbeing of the Muslim community resulting in a more orthodox religious identity. Drivers of radicalisation were perceived to include inequalities, and misrepresentation of Islamic teachings. Solutions to tackle radicalisation and promote social cohesion included authentic Islamic education, greater integration and reducing inequalities with greater acceptance by the Muslim community alongside more responsible journalism. Although further work is needed in Muslim communities, there also needs to be work done on non-Muslim communities to further understand the impact of extremism on social cohesion and wellbeing.

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A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization

Cited by 94 publications

References 26 publications

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Spirituality, Religiosity and Nationalism From the Perspective of Public and Global Mental Health

Violent Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism: Perspectives of Wellbeing and Social Cohesion of Citizens of Muslim Heritage

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