Session 8: Remedies: Life After Hate

 Session 8: Remedies: Deradicalization:  Life After Hate                                        

Music:"Down by the Riverside,", Playing for Change, LInk to Site

Essential Questions: 

(1) What factors lead individuals to join violent extremist organizations?; 

(2) How and why do extremists become de-radicalized?

(3) What organizations exist to help individuals transition away from extremist groups or ideas?

Rick's Rap (agenda preview, homework, news of the day )

Speaker: Brad Galloway, Coordinator,  Global Center on Hate, Bias, Extremism at Ontario Tech University; Interventionist,  Life After Hate

Homework: 

(1) Vinay Menon, "Confessions of a repentant white supremacist," Toronto Star, 11/25/17 Link to Site; 

(2) Are we ready for accountability? What former extremists can teach us about lifelong change," Life After Hate, 2/11/21 Link to site

(3) video, Hallie Jackson, "Exiting Extremism, Parents for Peace help hate group members turn the page,' MSNBC, 4/16/21 Link to site

Resources

• Ryan Andrew Brown and others,"Violent Extremism in America: Interviews with Former Extremists and Their families on Radicalization and De-Radicalization," Rand Corporation, 2021, Link to Site

•  segment on KKK Lawsuit, (6:17 start), PBS NewsHour, October 23, 2021Link to Site

• Brad Galloway,  "Turner Diaries: Defining a Movement," GNET, 1/26/21Link to site

• Life After Hate website Link to Site

• Parents for Peace website Link to site

• video, "Extremism Prevention: Experiences of Frontline Practitioners," George Washington University Program on Extremism 4/17/20 Link to site

• Terry Gross, "How a Rising Star of White nationalism Broke Free From the Movement," Fresh Air/NPR, 9/24/18, Link to Site

• Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles, "After Capitol riot, desperate families turn to groups that "deprogram" extremists," Washington Post, 2/5/21 (no link)