TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching about terrorism in the United Kingdom
T2 - How it is done and what problems it causes
AU - Miller, David
AU - Mills, T A
AU - Harkins, Steven
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - This article presents some of the findings of research on issues surrounding teaching terrorism and political violence at UK higher education institutions. It reports the results of a survey of UK institutions of higher education on their responses to government and other pressures in relation to terrorism. The data show a minority of universities have developed systems, policies or procedures for ‘preventing violent extremism’, while
a significant number have developed close cooperation and collaboration with state counterterrorism policies raising potential issues of academic freedom. This article then
examines three high-profile cases – incidents where universities, lecturers and students have come under political and legal pressures over the content of terrorism courses or accusations of ‘radicalisation’ on campus. It suggests that these pressures can be and sometimes are resisted, but that they have on occasion effectively narrowed the scope of academic freedom in practise with the danger that a further chilling effect follows in
their wake.
AB - This article presents some of the findings of research on issues surrounding teaching terrorism and political violence at UK higher education institutions. It reports the results of a survey of UK institutions of higher education on their responses to government and other pressures in relation to terrorism. The data show a minority of universities have developed systems, policies or procedures for ‘preventing violent extremism’, while
a significant number have developed close cooperation and collaboration with state counterterrorism policies raising potential issues of academic freedom. This article then
examines three high-profile cases – incidents where universities, lecturers and students have come under political and legal pressures over the content of terrorism courses or accusations of ‘radicalisation’ on campus. It suggests that these pressures can be and sometimes are resisted, but that they have on occasion effectively narrowed the scope of academic freedom in practise with the danger that a further chilling effect follows in
their wake.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859486962&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2011.623416
U2 - 10.1080/17539153.2011.623416
DO - 10.1080/17539153.2011.623416
M3 - Article
SN - 1753-9153
VL - 4
SP - 405
EP - 420
JO - Critical Studies on Terrorism
JF - Critical Studies on Terrorism
IS - 3
ER -