Saruna Collection:http://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/3282024-03-14T05:27:35Z2024-03-14T05:27:35ZFostering community resilience for preventing violent extremism : perspectives from Central AsiaTadjbakhsh, Shahrbanouhttp://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/3322018-04-15T08:51:21Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Fostering community resilience for preventing violent extremism : perspectives from Central Asia
Authors: Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou
Abstract: Community resilience refers to the “capacity of a community to withstand, respond to and recover from a wide range of adverse events, either natural or caused by an individual or a group”. It is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations and to learn from past disasters to strengthen future response and recovery efforts. Community resilience is a term often associated with disaster risk reductions, preparedness to mitigate environment
disasters, emergency response and the ability to recover in a way that restores normal functioning in society. Although resilience is a term most often used for development in risky environments (such as a natural disasters), it is increasingly used for a broader set of adversity: economic downturn, a pandemic, crime, conflicts and terrorism. This paper will focus on how community resilience can help prevent terrorism.2016-11-01T00:00:00ZCountering terror in South Asia : beyong statist approachesAhmed, Imtiazhttp://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/3312018-04-15T08:51:36Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Countering terror in South Asia : beyong statist approaches
Authors: Ahmed, Imtiaz
Abstract: While social and communal factors influence motivations, less attention is often paid to the environment in which individuals are either radicalized or deradicalized and the role that families and communities might play in this regard. The question of communities tends to come into the equation of strategies to counter terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization under two different lenses: One secrutiny, based on a negative narrative,
focuses on how the community creates conditions for its members to become radicalized. These often happen in places where members of religious communities where unforgiving versions of religion is being taught including places like prisons which are notorious hotbeds of radicalization through exchanges among prisoners; and even within families which help recruit brothers, wives etc. into so-called Jihad, such as is often the case in Central Asia. This paper will focus on certain misconceptions of Islam.2016-11-01T00:00:00ZIslam and radicalism : a brief historyIsmail, Mohamed M. M.http://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/3302018-04-15T08:52:00Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Islam and radicalism : a brief history
Authors: Ismail, Mohamed M. M.
Abstract: This article explains the nature of of Islam and its tolerance. It sheds light on Medina constitution as one nation in order to understand the relation between Muslims and non-Muslims in the state of Medina. Jihad has long proven to be one of the most controversial terms therefore, the study sheds light on the violent interpretations of jihad by two radical Islamic scholars Abul A’la Al-Maududi and Seyyid Qutub. Their call for unrestricted war against the enemies of Islam has had a direct influence on extremist militant groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS who have carried out terrorist attacks on an international scale, delegitimized the existing Muslim governments, and called for the restoration of the caliphate throughout the Islamic world. The understanding of jihad should be conducted with an awareness of the controversial nature and the ambiguity surrounding the concept in the modern context of terrorism and religious extremism. In response to the propagators of the offensive theory of jihad who keep feeding the already circulating misconceptions about Islam as a violent and intolerant religion, I provide scholarly evidence to the centrality of peace and tolerance in Islam2016-11-01T00:00:00ZEditorialShareef, Ali Fawazhttp://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/3292018-04-15T08:52:10Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Editorial
Authors: Shareef, Ali Fawaz2016-11-01T00:00:00Z