Walking Away from Terrorism

Thisaccessible new booklooks athow and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups suchas Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the dramatic and sometimes extraordinary accounts that the terrorists themselves offered to the authorabout why they left terrorism behind. The bookexamines three major issues: what we currently know about de-radicalisation and disengagement how discussions with terrorists about their experiences of disengagement can show how exit routes come about, and how they thenfare as 'ex-terrorists' away from the structures that protected them what the implications of these findingsare for law-enforcement officers, policy-makers and civil society on a global scale. Concluding with a series of thought-provoking yet controversial suggestions for future efforts at controlling terrorist behaviour,Walking Away From Terrorismprovides an comprehensive introduction to disengagement and de-radicalisation and offers policymakers a series of considerations for the development of counter-radicalization and de-radicalisation processes. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism and political violence, war and conflict studies, security studies and political psychology. John Horganis Director of theInternationalCenterfor the Study of Terrorism at thePennsylvaniaStateUniversity. He is one of the world's leading experts on terrorist psychology, and has authored over 50 publications in this field, recent books include theThe Psychology of Terrorism(Routledge 2005) andLeaving Terrorism Behind(co-edited, Routledge 2008)