Knowledge: Students obtain knowledge of recent developments in questions, theories, policies and research on right-wing, left-wing and Muslim radicalization.
Skills: Students enhance their ability to indicate the link between sociological questions, theories and policy. Applied to the field of radicalization, students train their ability to relate sociological theories to interventions of deradicalization. Students train in evaluation of projects on integration and deradicalization
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In this course we address a timely topic: processes of radicalization and the ways to counter these radicalization processes. Radicalism is not tied to one ideology – almost every ideology knows its extreme variants. We start out with what is seen as intra-parliamentary radicalism – support for parties at the flanks of the political spectrum. In the second part of the course, we take a closer look at extra-parliamentary extremists and processes of radicalization into these groups: neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists.
Many governments have been concerned with people radicalizing and have searched ways to counter these processes. Small-scale projects have been implemented to counter radicalization, many of which only recently have come to be evaluated. In this course, we study what kind of programs have been proposed, and implemented, and to what extent they have shown to be effective. In particular, we focus on the extent to which the assumptions taken in policy making have been built on the academic literature. Research master students develop their theoretical skills by reviewing existing research and formulating hypotheses from combining various theoretical contributions.
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