Radicalization and violent extremism are one of the most important challenges of modern plurally diverse societies. The gap between ensuring security and stability on the one hand and respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals on the other raises a number of tensions and dilemmas for scholars, policy makers as well as educators in their everyday educational environment. At the same time, the brutality of terrorist attacks and their frequency open the space to ‘moral panic’ which promotes the polarization of society and the associated phenomenon of conflicting diversity. Moreover, radicalization and violent extremism have once again brought to the forefront the importance of common principles and fundamental values as well as the questions associated with diversity and tolerance in general. This paper examines some of the most important problems and challenges related to radicalization and violent extremism. The introductory part contextualizes the problems and challenges raised by radicalization and violent extremism. The central part presents in detail some of the most important topics radicalization and violent extremism have brought to the forefront. The final part emphasizes the shift of emphasis in understanding the process of radicalization and identifies some of the neglected aspects of radicalization and violent extremism.
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Despite the consensus that radicalization and violent extremism represent a major threat to political, economic and social security of contemporary democratic societies, the discussion about what precisely is radicalisation is far from being over. In fact, the problem of radicalization and violent extremism have brought to the forefront problems previously either compartmentalized in specialized courses on intelligence and security studies or at the very fringes of scholarly interest. This introductory article to ‘Radicalization, Violent Extremism and Conflicting Diversity’ journal special issue identifies some of the most pressing of problems and challenges associated with radicalization and violent extremism as their relationship is anything but unambiguous or unproblematic. It also introduces the articles and the interview that are part of this journal special issue.
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The article discusses some discursive similarities between Slovene online comments on social networks, hostile to refugees, which he assumes are not specific to the Slovene environment, and elements of contemporary anti-Semitic discourse in modern Germany and Great Britain.
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