The purpose with this study is to develop a deeper understanding about how Swedish governmental agencies can differ in how they handle radicalization and violent extremism as a community problem. The reason behind this study is the growth of attention on young western citizens being radicalized and involved in terrorist activity during the last decade. The governmental agencies that have been selected for this study are the Swedish Police Authority and the Swedish National Agency for Education. The chosen research design for this study is a qualitative method to analyze two official agencies reports connected with measures handling violent extremism. The results provided by the research shows that both state agencies are relying on agency cooperation to handle the issue with violent extremism. It also shows that the Swedish National Agency of Education focuses on long term prevention methods on micro level while the Swedish Police Authority focuses on requiring juridical support on macro level to develop more intelligence collecting methods. This is explained by the fact that state agencies have their own ways of applying governance tools on individual subjects.

There has been a rise in Right-wing extremism (RWE) mobilizing within what is known as the setter-colonial state of Canada, with some groups espousing values and narratives grounded in White nationalist ideology which have led to instances of violence and harm against community members. These incidents of harm and violence occur in the context of the Canadian state's claims to inclusive multiculturalism, civility and benevolence. While there are many looking into the presence of RWE groups to document their existence, mobilizing patterns and tactics, very little analysis exists that offers a deep analysis into these groups and situates their political ideology within the broader context of the Canadian state’s governance logics. Therefore, to push the discussion on this topic further, this project looks at the specific case of the Canadian Nationalist Front's (CNF), a White nationalist group in Canada, and unpacks the discourse shared on their blog. Through dissecting the CNF's blogpost with a theoretical framework of analysis that moves beyond understanding this group as merely a fringe group which holds fundamentally different values than the Canadian state, I make links to the existing literature that demonstrates the parallels between the two. I argue that the racialized governance logics of White nationalist groups, like the CNF, are also shared in the settler-colonial logics of the Canadian state's border governance strategies. Further, I highlight the ways in which groups like the CNF ground their movements in the superiority of Whiteness, while using the state's claims of inclusivity and multiculturalism to justify their entitlement to hold these exclusionary ideologies while presenting themselves as victims of those that they "Other". Finally, I contextualize their discourse within the context of neoliberalism, which has intensified the harms of racial capitalism in a way that has also impacted the White working class and allowed groups like the CNF to use economic grievances to mobilize their movements.

В работе исследовано отношение подростков и молодежи Западного управленческого округа к представителям различных социальных, этнических и религиозных групп, к институтам государства, к проявлениям экстремизма и террористической идеологии. В результате проведенного исследования подростковой и молодежной среде выявлено, что в Западном управленческом округе незначительно превалирует националистическая экстремистская установка в молодежной среде, что требует активизации и совершенствования профилактической работы в этом направлении и работы образовательных организаций по гармонизации межнациональных отношений в подростковой и молодежной среде. Результаты проведенных исследований легли в основу разработанных технологий профилактики экстремизма в подростковой и молодежной среде: 1. Технология формирования социальных навыков как механизм профилактики вовлечения детей и подростков в проявления асоциальной, в том числе - экстремистской направленности. 2. Методическая разработка «Традиции примирения народов разных национальностей» для специалистов по профилактике и предотвращению экстремистских проявлений для работы в органах государственного и муниципального управления, в образовательных учреждениях всех уровней, в молодежных организациях, на предприятиях всех форм собственности, в правоохранительных структурах. / The paper examines the attitudes of adolescents and youth of the Western administrative district to representatives of various social, ethnic and religious groups, to the institutions of the state, to manifestations of extremism and terrorist ideology. As a result of the study, the adolescent and youth environment revealed that in the Western administrative district the nationalistic extremist orientation among the youth prevails slightly, which requires the intensification and improvement of preventive work in this direction and the work of educational organizations to harmonize interethnic relations in the adolescent and youth environment. The research results formed the basis of the developed technologies for the prevention of extremism in the adolescent and youth environment: 1. Technology of formation of social skills as a mechanism for the prevention of the involvement of children and adolescents in manifestations of asocial, including extremist, orientation. 2. Methodical development "Traditions of reconciliation of peoples of different nationalities" for specialists in the prevention and prevention of extremist manifestations for work in government and municipal authorities, in educational institutions at all levels, in youth organizations, in enterprises of all forms of ownership, in law enforcement structures.

В работе рассматривается становление исламской системы образования в Киргизской Республике, анализируются нынешнее состояние исламского образования и существующие в этой области проблемы и противоречия. Формулируются практические рекомендации по повышению эффективности исламского образования в республике. Основное внимание сосредоточено на проблемах и противоречиях системы исламского образования и государственной политике по отношению к нему. Кроме того рассмотрены понятия радикализма, экстремизма и молодежи, а также использование основных исламских ценностей как средства борьбы с экстремизмом и терроризмом в молодёжной среде. / The work examines the formation of the Islamic education system in the Kyrgyz Republic, analyzes the current state of Islamic education and the problems and contradictions in this area. Practical recommendations are formulated to improve the effectiveness of Islamic education in the republic. The main attention is focused on the problems and contradictions of the Islamic education system and state policy in relation to it. In addition, the concepts of radicalism, extremism and youth, as well as the use of basic Islamic values as a means of combating extremism and terrorism in the youth environment are considered.

Актуальность исследования подтверждается указом Президента РФ «Стратегией противодействия экстремизму в Российской Федерации до 2025», который предоставляет возможность, чтобы противостоять кризисным положением как в социальной, политической, информационной и нравственной сфере. Протестные настроения является актуальной проблемой в условиях российской действительности, во всех своих проявлениях он стал одной из основных внутренних угроз безопасности Российской Федерации, опираясь на происшествия последнего времени (СКВЕР, Московское дело). Изменение ситуации заставляет искать новые научные решения, позволяющие вести профилактическую работу с протестным потенциалом среди студенческой молодежи с помощью социальных сетей интернет которыми они пользуются и получают основную информацию и ей руководствуются. Цель исследования разработка механизмов профилактики влиянию контента социальных сетей на формирование протестных настроений в студенческой среде. Задачи исследования заключаются в следующем: - Определить вовлечения студенчества в протестные акции; - Проанализировать профилактику и мотивы возникновения протестных настроений в студенческой среде. - Изучить механизмы воздействия социальных сетей на возникновение студенческих протестов. - Оптимизировать программу обучения СООПр «Феникс», по технологии профилактики экстремизма среди студентов в социальных сетях на основе УрФУ. Для решения поставленных задач использовались общенаучные методы: теоретические – системный анализ, метод «адресной рассылки», сравнительный анализ, контент-анализ, изучение и обобщение; эмпирические – наблюдение, анкетирование. Экспериментальной базой исследования является УрФУ. Применение данных методов позволило автору определить теоретические основания исследования студенческого протеста, сконструировать соответствующий социологический инструментарий и на основе проведенных эмпирических замеров выполнить оптимизацию программы обучения СООПр «Феникс» УрФУ. Научная новизна исследования – применяется комплексное обучения информационного противодействия силами СООПр «Феникс» в социальных сетях, для профилактики и выявлении протестных настроений у студентов УрФУ. Практическая значимость работы заключается во внедрении программы обучения СООПр «Феникс», методикой которого является выявление, влияние и профилактика деструктивного контента социальных сетей на формирование экстремистских взглядов в молодежной среде. / The relevance of the study is confirmed by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation «Strategy to Combat Extremism in the Russian Federation until 2025», which provides an opportunity to counter the crisis situation in the social, political, informational and moral spheres. Protest mood is an urgent problem in the context of Russian reality, in all its manifestations it has become one of the main internal threats to the security of the Russian Federation, relying on recent incidents (SQUER, Moscow Case). The changing situation makes us look for new scientific solutions that allow us to conduct preventive work with protest potential among students using the social networks Internet that they use and receive basic information and are guided by it. The purpose of the study is to develop mechanisms for preventing the influence of social media content on the formation of protest moods in the student community. The objectives of the study are as follows: - Determine the involvement of students in protests; - To analyze the prevention and motives for the emergence of protest moods in the student community. - To study the mechanisms of the impact of social networks on the emergence of student protests. - To optimize the training program of COOPr «Phoenix», on technology for the prevention of extremism among students in social networks based on UrFU. To solve the tasks set, general scientific methods were used: theoretical - system analysis, the method of "address mailing", comparative analysis, content analysis, study and generalization; empirical - observation, questionnaire. The experimental base of the study is UrFU. The application of these methods allowed the author to determine the theoretical foundations of the study of student protest, to design appropriate sociological tools and, on the basis of empirical measurements, to optimize the training program of the Phoenix Ural Federal University. The scientific novelty of the study - a comprehensive training of informational countermeasures by the forces of the «Phoenix» COOPr in social networks is used to prevent and identify protest sentiments among students of UrFU. The practical significance of the work lies in introducing the «Phoenix» COOPr training program, the methodology of which is to identify, influence and prevent the destructive content of social networks on the formation of extremist views in the youth environment.

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The coronavirus pandemic has changed the lives of individuals all over the world. The goal of this research is to investigate and understand the narratives and underlying messages of the QAnon movement concerning COVID-19. The theoretical basis for this analysis is that of uncertainty-identity theory and extremism to study the process by which people embrace these types of movements and their values. Also, to examine the spread of QAnons’ messages and conspiracy theories on digital media, network society theory is used. In order to carry out this research, we conducted qualitative content analysis on data gathered directly from QAnon sources. According to the results of the study, the movement proceeded to create crisis narratives that tap into social anxieties and political uncertainty. Accordingly, the pandemic was used for the movement to grow, gain new momentum and supporters, and even merge other conspiracy theories making the narratives more elaborate.

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International terrorism is a relevant and acute issue to deal with for most states across the globe. The horrors and fear of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 in New York and Washington left governments with new priorities and challenges to cooperate and coordinate efforts to combat terrorism. Governments in Southeast Asia have been faced with the threat of terrorism for several decades, although it has increased during the last decade. This case study sets out to trace and analyze terrorism in Southeast Asia from a neo-realist perspective. The first research question deals with the fact that the region is being referred to as the “second front” on the war on terror, or as a “terrorist haven”. Further, by using a neo-realist framework, an analysis of the situation and the actions of governments in the region will be provided. Finally, according to neo-realist theory, regional cooperation is only peripheral to the actual struggles of power and balancing that states are involved in. Yet the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is arguably an actor in combating terrorism in the region. Therefore, one of the objectives is to analyze these initiatives and to provide reflections for further action.