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Preventing Youth Radicalization

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.

Glenn C. Altschuler: How Young Americans Become White Supremacists: Understanding the pathways to the radicalization of young Americans.

Lydia Bates: Conversations About Gun Violence, Disinformation and Extremism: To support young people as they grapple with harms motived by extremism, PERIL director of research, Pasha Dashtgard, Ph.D., argues that it’s incumbent upon the whole community to address hate-fueled violence.

Caroline Bologna: What To Do If You Suspect Your Teen Is Getting Radicalized Online: Experts share their advice for parents when it comes to combatting extremist propaganda.

Megan Gates: An Explosive Situation: Strategies to Prevent Youth Radicalization.

Ibram X. Kendi: The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About: White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth.

Tess Owen: They Love Jesus, Bon Iver, and Incels. Inside America’s New Ultranationalist Youth Movement. They paint Pepe the Frog crosses at church camp while decrying modern American society.

PBS: Examining the warning signs of online extremism targeting young people.

Joanna Schroeder: Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons.  Parents need to understand how white supremacists prey on teen boys, so they can intervene.

SPLC:

UNESCO: Addressing hate speech through education: a guide for policy-makers.

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve: How Do We Talk to Our Children About White Supremacy?

Kathleen Vail: Preventing online radicalization and extremism in boys.

Sally Weale: Children coming across far-right material when researching, teachers say: NASUWT conference told of ‘online infiltration’ of views such as Holocaust denial among genuine accounts.