Empirically explore how practitioners working on the prevent strand of the UK strategy - passing the violent threshold to constitute counter terrorism

该项目涉及英国(英国)预防战略(英国政府，2011年)中极端主义和恐怖主义之间的灰色地带。除其他外，这是一个概念泥潭的结果，这种泥潭往往模糊了“可接受的”非暴力极端主义和“不可接受的”(尚未)暴力极端主义之间的界限(Lowe，2017)，后者理所当然地要求防止参与，因为它是恐怖主义的渠道。然而，尽管学术辩论突出了两者之间的巨大灰色地带，主要集中在需要更明确地区分两者之间，但缺乏对如何防止地方当局和警方的实践者处理识别(尚未)暴力极端主义概念的人的两难境地的关注(施密德，2014)。这项拟议的研究将填补这一空白，缩小重点，从经验上探索如何防止这些组织的官员判断一种表达超过了将表达与恐怖主义调和所需的暴力门槛，并构成参与反恐活动。这一重点将通过应用以下研究问题来实现：1.反恐实践者如何应对处于极端主义和恐怖主义之间灰色地带的事件？2.在回应那些可能处于恐怖主义接触的边缘的人时，什么可以被视为“良好做法”？3.通过反恐工具应对非暴力极端主义的影响是什么？

This project is concerned with the grey area between extremism and terrorism in the United Kingdom's (UK) Prevent Strategy (HM Government, 2011). It is the result of, inter alia, a conceptual quagmire which has tended to obscure the boundaries between "acceptable" non-violent extremism and "unacceptable" not (yet) violent extremism (Lowe, 2017), with the latter justifiably requiring Prevent involvement for it being a conduit to terrorism. Yet, while academic debate has highlighted a large grey area between the two, chiefly focussing on the need for clearer distinctions between them, there has been a lack of focus on how Prevent practitioners in the local authority and police deal with the dilemma of identifying those who subscribe to the notion of not (yet) violent extremism (Schmid, 2014). This proposed study will fill this gap, narrowing the focus down to empirically explore how Prevent officers in these respective organisations judge an expression as passing the violent threshold needed to reconcile an expression with terrorism and constitute counter-terrorism involvement. This focus will be enabled through the application of the following research questions: 1. How do counter-terrorism practitioners respond to incidents occupying a grey area between extremism and terrorism?2. In responding to those who may be on the cusp of terrorist engagement, what can be deemed as being 'good practice'?3. What are the implications of responding to non-violent extremism through counter-terrorism instruments?