Understanding Radicalisation PG Cert

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The module supports continuing professional development for practitioners in front line services and will allow you to discuss and debate the many facets of radicalisation. By looking at how communities and agencies can be successfully engaged to work together, you will be able to identify, assess, refer and support those vulnerable to radicalisation.

This module provides the opportunity to unpack the theoretical approaches to radicalisation and to relate theory to practice in your working environment. Through research interaction and critique, major local security threats and global security risks will be addressed.

This module will enable you to approach the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism from a practitioner and case study perspective. An insider’s account and critical case study analysis will inform your critique and an appreciation of contemporary theorisation of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

You’ll analyse the conceptualisation of terrorism and its construction by academic study in contrast to social realities and practices. You’ll also consider how effectively terrorism can be dealt with, if informed and directed by academic theory, whilst taking practical and ethical considerations into account.

This module draws upon contemporary challenges and case studies to consider the changing focus of intelligence activities from an insider’s point of view, but also from the perspective of conceptual analysis and hypothesis beyond the constraint of institutions and governance realities.

You’ll examine intelligence in both the commercial and state sector. As the strategic environment changes, intelligence practice and, indeed, concepts of intelligence change. The actors and agents involved in intelligence transform, as do the objects of their concern. Counter-intelligence strategies and strategies relating to the activities of destabilisation, threat, illicit knowledge acquisition etc., also change. You’ll analyse how institutional intelligence bodies and their oversight transform, affecting theirimmediate and long term priorities.