PUBLIC TALK: De-Radicalisation - Community-Led Intervention in Australia

An On the Edge lecture by Dr Clarke Jones, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

With the arrest rate of young terrorist offenders likely to increase in the near term, Australian courts are faced with the difficult decision of whether to sentence these offenders to potentially long periods of incarceration or to divert them from prison using alternative rehabilitative approaches through community-led de-radicalisation or intervention programs.

This lecture will discuss the relatively new field of community-led intervention, which is currently a hotly debated topic. These so-called softer solutions to terrorism are not popular with Government or the broader Australian community, particularly when it concerns potential risks to our safety and security. However, the outcomes of such community-led approaches are likely to have greater long-term solutions to reducing terrorism, as well as having greater benefits for offenders, their families and their communities.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required via the website