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- Title
Terrorist Rehabilitation: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices.
- Authors
Gunaratna, Rohan
- Abstract
Pakistani military developed a state-of-the-art capability to rehabilitate insurgents, terrorists and extremists. Community engagement to prevent and rehabilitation to deradicalize are the most humane approaches to countering the ideological threat of politically motivated violence. Spearheaded by Major General Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad in Swat and by Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa in South Waziristan, Pakistani military working with its partners have created a rehabilitation capability that should be adopted by the police and the prisons. A new frontier in countering political violence, rehabilitation of insurgents, terrorists and extremists is a global challenge. This paper discuss the concepts and practices in rehabilitation shared by Singapore with Pakistan since October 15, 2008. Singapore's International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research conducted the 1st Strategic Workshop on Rehabilitation and De-Radicalization of Militants and Extremists at the FATA Secretariat in Peshawar on 18-19 May 2010. Pakistan's pioneer in rehabilitation, Vice-Chancellor of the Islamic university of Swat, Dr. Farooq Khan was assassinated by the Taliban on October 2, 2010. This paper is dedicated to his courageous and visionary leadership.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; TERRORISTS; REHABILITATION of criminals; COUNTERTERRORISM; TERRORISM; POLITICAL crimes &; offenses; ARMED Forces
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2012, Vol 3/4, Issue 4/1, p143
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article