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British Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement in Birmingham last week of a new five-year plan to deal with extremism comes hard on the heels of the UK Counter-Terrorism and Security Act (or CTSA), which came into force earlier this year in direct response to intelligence that hundreds of British citizens have been travelling to Syria to fight for ISIS or live in its ‘Islamic State.’ These policy developments shift the focus of the current UK government’s counter-radicalisation efforts decisively to ‘non-violent extremism’ which, it argues, leads directly to terrorist violence.
