Combatting radicalisation in France: from experimentation to professionalisation
Keywords:
France, radicalisation, preventing violent extremism (PVE), combatting violent extremism (CVE), deradicalisation, disengagementAbstract
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n. 128
Quadrimestral (May-September 2021)
ISSN:1133-6595 - E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2021.128.2.105/en
Before the murders committed by Mohammad Merah in 2012, the French authorities dealt with terrorism almost exclusively as a problem of public order. Hence the country was late in producing measures to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism. Analysing how France’s utopian approach to deradicalisation shifted to more pragmatic measures of disengagement and primary prevention when tackling radicalisation, especially in its Islamist form, this article presents the successes and failures of the various plans implemented by France since 2014. Over time, these strategies, revised and improved (in particular, by means of interpreting the concept of radicalisation) culminated with the national Prevent to Protectstrategy of 2018. Among other aspects, laicism, republican values, and the legal and educational systems have been mobilised.
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