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RADICALISATION AND COUNTER-RADICALISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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Great Debates in Higher Education is a series of short, accessible books addressing key challenges to and issues in Higher Education, on a national and international level. These books are research informed but debate driven. They are intended to be relevant to a broad spectrum of researchers, students and administrators in higher education, and are designed to help us unpick and assess the state of higher education systems, policies and social and economic impacts.

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RADICALISATION AND COUNTER-RADICALISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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CATHERINE McGLYNN

University of Huddersfield, UK

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SHAUN McDAID

University of Huddersfield, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Acknowledgements

We thank the team at Emerald Publishing for the opportunity to write this book, especially Dr Philippa Grand and Kimberley Chadwick. Our research was conducted with the help of a Research and Innovation Fund grant from the University of Huddersfield and we would like to thank Professor Surya Munro, Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity, Professor Brid Featherstone, Head of the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Dr Pete Woodcock, Head of the Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology for their support. Special thanks goes to Susan Smith whose efforts made the task of analysing transcripts a pleasant one. The book has benefitted from the insights of friends and colleagues too numerous to mention – thank you all. We are exceptionally grateful to the lecturers and students who gave their time willingly as participants in our focus groups. Catherine dedicates this book with love to Ian, Rachel and Louise. Shaun dedicates it to Ania and to Emilia.

List of Acronyms

AM

Al-Muhajiroun (The Emigrants)

AQAP

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

BCU

Birmingham City University

CTSA

Counterterrorism and Security Act 2015

EDL

English Defence League

ERG22 + 

Extremism Risk Guidelines/Guidance

ETA

Euskadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom)

FOSIS

Federation of Student Islamic Societies

HE

Higher Education

HEFCE

Higher Education Funding Council for England

HEI

Higher Education Institutions

HT

Hizb ut-Tahrir

IRA

Irish Republican Army

IS

Islamic State Group

JIMAS

Jamiyat Ihya Minhaj al-Sunnah (Association to Revive the Way of the Messenger)

LSE

London School of Economics

LUU

Leeds University Union

MB

Muslim Brotherhood

MSS

Muslim Students Society

NICRA

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

NIRT

Northern Ireland Related Terrorism

NUS

National Union of Students

PD

People’s Democracy

PLO

Palestinian Liberation Organisation

RAF

Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction)

RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

SDS

Sozialistischer Deutsche Studentenbund (Socialist German Students’ League)

SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies

UAL

University of the Arts London

UCU

University and College Union

UKIM

United Kingdom Islamic Mission

WRAP

Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent

About the Authors

Catherine McGlynn is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research focuses on Northern Ireland with respect to conflict resolution and party politics. Her last book was Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Paramilitary Prisoners and Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland from Manchester University Press (co-authored with Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge and James W. McAuley) which was the Political Studies Association of Ireland Book of the year in 2011.

Shaun McDaid is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research and teaching interests include the conflict in Northern Ireland, but also the dynamics of political violence and attempts to prevent it more generally. He is the author of Template for Peace: Northern Ireland, 1972–1975 (Manchester University Press, 2013), and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.