France, Belgium and the Netherlands are all deploying solitary and "small-group isolation" on suspected and convicted terrorists to prevent radicalisation of prisoners.
Those who watch would-be terrorists say that radicalisation often begins with a chat with a charismatic agitator, although the sort of loudmouths who give interviews to newspapers are much less dangerous than the covert kind.
When nations violate human rights and undermine the rule of law, even in the pursuit of terrorists, it feeds radicalisation, gives propaganda tools to the extremists and ultimately undermines our efforts.
In France, suspects can be charged simply for "association" with those plotting terrorist attacks.Two routes to radicalisation are of particular concern, though.
As a result, there was still no federal agency specifically charged with identifying radicalisation or working to prevent terrorist recruitment of US citizens and residents, said the report, released today by the Washington-based BipartisaNational Security Preparedness GroupPreparedNational Security Preparedness Group
According to Daniel Köhler, the director of the German Institute on Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation Studies, "lone actor terrorists" pose "a new challenge that we are struggling to come to terms with".
Proposals being considered by the Victorian government and police to impose curfews and internet bans on teenagers they suspect may become terrorists reveals just how poorly authorities understand radicalisation and those most vulnerable to it, experts have said.
We are seeing an increase in fearful rhetoric around radicalisation, particularly when we see foreign terrorist fighters and females in unprecedented numbers joining Isis".
According to radicalisation theory, a person becomes a terrorist by way of identifiable stages of adopting increasingly radical ideas, until he or she is finally radicalised into terrorist action.
Barrow said that "the tactics of the regime, including barrel bombs, are in our view more likely than not to create radicalisation rather than managing to defeat terrorist elements.
