STOP IT BEFORE IT STARTS: PRISON RADICALIZATION IN CANADA
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today released its latest True North publication, From Rehabilitation to Recruitment, an in-depth look at the problem of prison radicalization – the recruitment and indoctrination of future terrorists within prison populations by fellow inmates. Authored by MLI Fellow Alex Wilner, From Rehabilitation to Recruitment is a timely look at how Canada can prepare to fight a problem that is already on the public policy agenda for our allies in the United States, Europe and beyond.
Wilner writes, “This paper does not take an alarmist view of the situation within Canada. But it does sound an alarm.”
The paper has had tremendous initial coverage. Alex Wilner appears on the editorial pages of the Globe and Mail with an Op Ed titled, Getting Ahead of Prison Radicalization.
Articles also appear today in the National Post, Stop spread of radicalism through jails, and other Postmedia outlets in Windsor, St. John, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.
- MLI's Alex Wilner follows up on his prison radicalization work in the Toronto Sun, BBC News, and Montreal Gazette January 25, 2013
January 25, 2013 - In an interview with the Toronto Sun on prison radicalization, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner says, "This isn't to say that all inmates will become radicals, or even that many will, but it is to suggest that prison represents a p...
- MLI study and Senior Fellow Alex Wilner quoted in National Post on preventing prison radicalization December 3, 2012
December 3, 2012 - The National Post seeks the advice of MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner in an article discussing how to rehabilitate convicted terrorists and also quotes from Wilner's MLI study on the topic. An excerpt below: By contrast, Canada has ...
- Alex Wilner - You Can't Talk to a Fanatic March 18, 2011
Yesterday the Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued an Op Ed by Alex Wilner, a Fellow of MLI, that outlines his views on the best ways of deterring terrorism. The article was picked up by the Epoch Times and is sure to be seen in various newspapers acro...
- Alex Wilner's award-winning article February 24, 2011
MLI Fellow Alex Wilner's article “Deterring the Undeterrable: Coercion, Denial, and Delegitimization in Counterterrorism”, which won the Journal of Strategic Studies (JSS) 2010 Amos Perlmutter Prize and was previewed in the Vancouver Sun last week,...
- Alex Wilner's Senate testimony on prison radicalization February 24, 2011
On December 13 MLI Fellow Alex Wilner testified before the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism on the threat of radicalization within Canadian prisons and how to meet it. We are pleased to present here the English and French version of his remarks.
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[...] before the Committee Members. The basis of the testimony presented was Alex’s MLI study, From Rehabilitation to Recruitment, which was released in [...]
[...] from Zurich, Switzerland, I was invited to present my research on and discuss the issue of prison radicalization and terrorist recruitment. In the coming weeks, the Senate Committee will publish an official [...]