An Examination of Partnership Approaches to Challenging Religiously-Endorsed Violence involving Muslim Groups and Police.

在英国，“社区参与”的概念在政府政策、实践和话语中占有重要地位。在“积极公民”原则的支持下，鼓励个人自愿提供服务，参与并为公民社会做出贡献，社区被视为通过与国家组织合作解决犯罪或反社会行为等社会问题的重要资源。在过去十年左右的时间里，政策制定者对鼓励宗教团体与法定机构合作越来越感兴趣。在2001年9月11日之后、2005年7月7日和2005年7月21日的背景下，与穆斯林社区的接触具有更重要的意义，因为政府正在实施的反恐措施强调了穆斯林社区参与帮助打击极端主义的重要性。然而，以反恐为目的与穆斯林团体接触引发了许多问题。本研究旨在探讨穆斯林团体如何通过与警方合作，让他们的社区参与到挑战宗教支持的暴力活动中来。特别是，该研究将着眼于“极端主义”的话语，这些话语是如何构建和使用的，以及穆斯林团体如何在他们与警察之间发展的反恐伙伴关系中挑战宗教或其他认可的暴力，穆斯林/警察伙伴关系的结构和过程，以检查穆斯林团体和警察对“社区参与”的含义，以及影响参与过程的更广泛的社会和政治因素。

In the UK, the notion of 'community engagement' features significantly in government policy, practice and discourse. Underpinned by the principle of 'active citizenship' whereby individuals are encouraged to volunteer their services and participate in, and contribute to, civil society, communities are viewed as an important resource for tackling social problems like crime or anti-social behaviour, by working with state organisations. Over the last decade or so, policy makers have become increasingly interested in encouraging faith communities to work in partnership with statutory agencies. In a post-September 11th 2001, July 7th 2005 and July 21st 2005 context, engagement with Muslim communities has taken on added significance, as counter-terror approaches being implemented by Government stress the importance of the involvement of Muslim communities in helping to combat extremism. However, engagement with Muslim groups for the purposes of counter-terrorism raises many issues.This study proposes to explore how Muslim groups work through partnerships with the police to engage their communities in challenging religiously-endorsed violence. In particular, the study will look at discourses of 'extremism', how these are constructed and used, and how Muslim groups can challenge religiously, or other, endorsed violence in counter-terror partnerships developed between themselves and the police, the structures and processes of Muslim/police partnerships, to examine the meanings that Muslim groups and police officers have of 'community engagement', and the wider social and political factors that impact upon engagement processes.