Resources on Deradicalization

Below are educational resources that support the Minds Deradicalization Initiative.

Manila Principles/Bill of Rights

Manila Principles

Deradicalization and Anti-Censorship Studies

Liebert Publications - "Being Bad in a Video Game Can Make Us Morally Sensitive"

UNESCO - "UNESCO Releases New Research on Youth and Violent Extremism on Social Media"

CPJ - "Privatizing Censorship in Fight Against Extremism"

IDC - "A Revealing Study on How Our Brain Responds to Friends and Enemies in an Atmosphere of Conflict"

SSRN - "Why Net Censorship in Times of Political Unrest Results in More Violent Uprisings: A Social Simulation Experiment on the UK Riots"

Psychological Bulletin - "Much Ado About Nothing: The Misestimation and Overinterpretation of Violent Video Game Effects in Eastern and Western Nations: Comment on Anderson et al. (2010)"

Prospect - "The Remedy is More Speech"

You Can’t Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech

Would Online Censorship Be Effective? Evidence From Two Research Projects Proves the Opposite

The Streisand Effect and Censorship Backfire

Journal For Deradicalization

Understanding Deradicalization: Methods, Tools and Programs for Countering Violent Extremism

How to Deradicalize Someone 

Networks, organizations, and other initiatives

Talk for Peace International

Peace Talks

TED Peace

DM&E for Peace

Geneva Peace Talks Initiative

Stories and news

Washington Post: Don't leave the Afghan Peace Talks for Dead

Washington Post: The US Meets China, Russia, and Pakistan to Discuss Afghan Peace

Reuters: Taliban, U.S. envoy in Pakistan to review broken peace talks

Military Times: US meets China, Russia and Pakistan to talk peace in Afghanistan

VOA: Afghan Government Links Peace Talks With Taliban to One-Month Cease-Fire 

Beacon for Freedom - "The Long History of Censorship"

UNLV Law Journal - "Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Censorship of Hate Speech May Well Increase Violence"

Science Direct - "Trolls Just Want to Have Fun"

Antonio Casilli - "Banning Pro-Ana Websites? Not a Good Idea, as Web Censorship Might Have a Toothpaste-tube Effect" 

Wired - "Police Say Youtube Policies Motivated Shooter"

Ars Technica - "How Youtube's Adpocalypse May Have Figured In Its Tuesday Campus Shooting"

Wired - "Blame the Echo-Chamber on Facebook. But Blame Yourself, Too." 

NPR - "How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members to Give Up Their Robes"

Washington Post - "Hate Speech is Showing Up In Schools. Censorship is Not the Answer"

Mubin Shaikh - "The Making and Unmaking of an Islamic Terrorist"

VICE News - "Contrapoints is Deradicalizing Young, Right-Wing Men"

BBC News - "Radicals: The Man Who is Being Deradicalised"

VICE News - "This Indonesian School Is Deradicalizing The Children Of Convicted Terrorists"

Inspirational speeches

TED Talk: One day of peace with Jeremy Gilley

TED Talk: Talking about Peace with David Smith

TED Talk: A realistic vision for world peace with Jody Williams

Guides and how-to's

How to become friends with an enemy

5 Tips for Talking with "the Enemy"

7 Simple Steps to Turn Enemies into Friends

Talking to "The Enemy"