General Article Should Britain work with 'extremists' to prevent terrorism?

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By Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller

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Jamie Bartlett is head of the independence programme at the think tank Demos.

Very shortly the Government will release its review of ‘Prevent’. This is the controversial strand of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy that aims to stop terrorism before it occurs. Prevent is based on the idea that Muslim communities themselves can be very effective in helping ‘stem the tide’ of potential recruits, by confronting and challenging extremism, b...

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