Disengagement vs Deradicalisation
Definition
Disengagement: ceasing to participate in extremist activity without necessarily changing underlying beliefs. Deradicalisation: changing the beliefs and identity constructs that motivated extremism. Research (Horgan, Speckhard) consistently finds disengagement more achievable; effective programmes provide alternative identity pathways and practical support rather than direct ideological challenge.
Related terms
- BNS § 113 and UAPA
- BNS 2023 § 113 creates the general criminal offence of terrorist act in India. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 (as amended...
- Channel Programme (UK)
- The referral and multi-agency assessment pathway within UK Prevent. Any public-sector professional can refer an individual; a Channel panel assesses vulnerability and...
- Leakage
- Intentional or unintentional communication of intent to commit violence to a third party. One of TRAP-18's eight proximal warning behaviours and the...
- McCauley-Moskalenko Two-Pyramid Model
- Conceptual framework (Friction, 2011) distinguishing the opinion pyramid (distribution of extreme views) from the action pyramid (distribution of extremist behaviour). The two...
- TRAP-18 (Terrorist Radicalisation Assessment Protocol)
- 18-indicator structured professional judgement instrument by Reid Meloy, Roshdi, Guldimann and Hoffmann (2014). Distinguishes 8 proximal warning behaviours (leakage, pathway, fixation, novel...
- VERA-2R (Violent Extremism Risk Assessment)
- Structured professional judgement instrument by Elaine Pressman and John Flockton (2010, revised) for known extremist individuals in contact with the justice or...
Explained in
- Extremism, Radicalisation and Lone-Actor ViolenceDisengagement: ceasing to participate in extremist activity without necessarily changing underlying beliefs. Deradicalisation: changing the beliefs and identit...