Posts tagged radicalisation
RAMP-ing up responses to radicalisation in our communities: effective pathways to engagement.
RAMP-ing up responses to radicalisation in our communities: effective pathways to engagement.

Post-Christchurch, our leaders must reinvigorate their responses to radicalisation in our communities. Deb Cleland and Valerie Braithwaite (ANU) introduce the RAMP framework for behaviour change to help understand community organisations’ responses to radicalisation. The RAMP framework suggests that behaviour change can be facilitated by: Rewards, Awareness, Motivation and Pathways. 

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Issues, Policy and governancePower to Persuaderadicalisation, CALD communities, communication, Government, policing
The UK government’s terror strategy 'compromises the Mental Health Act and must be challenged'
The UK government’s terror strategy 'compromises the Mental Health Act and must be challenged'

Post 9/11 Islamophobia and the pathologisation of black people in the UK mental health context should be tackled as part of the ongoing Mental Health Act review, argue former psychiatrist Suman Fernando and researcher Tarek Younis in this post for re-published from Mental Health Today.

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Policy and governancePower to Persuadesoc, mental health, policy problem, radicalisation, discrimination, Disability
The un-intended consequences of the bizarre incentives catalysing the referral of mental health patients as radicalisation threats
The un-intended consequences of the bizarre incentives catalysing the referral of mental health patients as radicalisation threats

One has to stretch the imagination to conceive that a new policy might result in health professionals in Britain considering whether to refer patients with mental health needs as radicalisation threats in order to gain quicker access to necessary support and services. In this post, Dr Chris Allen examines the un-intended consequences of the bizarre incentives catalysing the referral of mental health patients as radicalisation threats.

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Advocacy, Issues, Policy and governancePower to Persuadepolicy problem, terrorism, radicalisation, policy research, policing, mental health