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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
2h ago“When a government decides who counts as a threat, who do you trust to draw that line fairly?”
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How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: Deradicalization practitioners
Nobody gets argued out I have sat across from a neo-Nazi and a former jihadist, and I can tell you what does not work: facts. You cannot debate someone out of an identity, because the belief is load-bearing — it holds up his self, his friends, his sense of mattering.... How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: Security-first
The van that doesn’t wait for your theory A plot does not pause while you address root causes. In 2016 a man drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice and killed 86 people; the warning signs were there, the disruption wasn’t.... How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: The Story
The mentor or the handcuffs In the Danish city of Aarhus, when young men came back from Syria, the police did something that scandalized half of Europe: instead of arresting them, they assigned them mentors — help with school, a job, a flat, a person who would keep showing up....