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Counter terrorism policy in Western Europe is increasingly about preventing violent extremism before it arises, by lessening the appeal of groups like al-Qaeda.  Most work tends to focus on the structural factors such as foriegn policy, societal discrimination, and a lack of local leadership.

This tends to ignore another vital aspect: that for many young people, al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda inspired groups are glamourous and exciting.  The appeal of such movements needs to be placed within a far deeper sociological and psychological understanding of why violent action of any type can be an attractive means of action.

Jamie has a think-piece online which lays out the idea in more detail. You can download it here.

He also has some articles online. There is one at Comment is Free here, and a piece in Prospect here.

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5. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime)]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:04:30 -0100 jamie.bartlett@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11870 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11870 Last week we published a new pamphlet called The Politics of Public Behaviour. It features essays from Demos' Duncan O'Leary, along with contributions from Andy Burnham MP, Andrew Lansley MP and Chris Huhne MP, who each offer contrasting views on the public implications of private decisions.

Here, Duncan talks about the role of government in influencing people's decision making, arguing that this is a new battleground for politics.




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]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 11:37:04 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11819 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11819 the politics of public behaviour, privacy, and radicalisation, to name just a few. Stay tuned.

First though, Duncan caught up with Jack and Faizal, to talk about their new pamphlet The Talking Cure, which was launched on Wednesday.

Here, Jack and Faizal explain why the future of the NHS will not just be secured by structural or organisational reforms from the top. We need to also think about the developing relationship between doctor and patient. As the pamphlet argues, 'in the noise of healthcare reform, the small conversations that matter most have been drowned out.'






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5. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime)]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 15:05:44 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11229 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11229 Prospect magazine, and Professor Paul Schnabel, General Director of the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands.

They were speaking after the third and final seminar in a series exploring integration and participation in the Netherlands and the UK. Here, Rachel, David and Paul discuss the broad state of political participation and its relationship to cohesion and integration. They also touch on the recent speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury on religious and national law.

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]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:12:28 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11186 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11186 launch of the new Demos pamphlet The Everyday Democracy Index. It sets out the first set of results of an endeavour to measure how good countries are at empowering their citizens in everyday spheres of life - spheres such as neighbourhoods and communities, workplaces, public services and even the family.



In this podcast, Duncan O'Leary talked to authors Kirsten Bound and Paul Skidmore about what the Index tries to do; what it measures; and where the research is heading next.








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]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:10:15 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11123 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11123 Career Innovation, authors of The Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace. The Manifesto set out to identify people's attitudes towards non-traditional ways of working such as part-time, contract working (self-employed), term-time working and flexible hours. It was the result of an 18-month research programme by the Ci Group of leading global employers, which brought together experts from business and academia.

The Manifesto argues that a new way of understanding employees’ relationship to work and organisations is needed, to replace a more destructive paradigm of business agility built around organisational structures, rather than people and their desire to achieve.

You can download a free summary of the Manifesto from www.CiManifesto.com

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]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:27:56 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11089 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/11089 Making It Personal. Just before the launch, at a day-long conference held last Friday, Peter Bradwell spoke to two of the authors, Niamh Gallagher and Jamie Bartlett.
The pamphlet explores, with a focus on social care, the next stage of a personalising approach to public services: people given an individual budget so they can shape, with the advice of peers, family and professionals, the support they need. Niamh and Jamie discuss why these self-directed services are such an important transformation of how traditional public services work, and what impact they really have.

You can read about the launch event, and download audio and transcriptions form some of the talks here. The conference featured talks from Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office; Charles Leadbeater, Demos Associate and co-author with Jamie and Niamh; and Dame Denise Platt, Chair, Commission for Social Care Inspection.

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]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:32:16 -0100 jamie.bartlett@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10920 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10920

Glasgow 2020 was a project to imagine the future of Glasgow through storytelling, wish-making and a series of discussions with people across Glasgow. I know this sounds cheesy, but we tried to focus on 'imagination' rather 'consultation'. The project trod a thin dividing line between political representation, and cultural expression. Basically i'm not sure if a load of stories, wishes and discussions can be considered to democratically 'represent' the entire populous of a city, but at the very least such activities can improve the relationship between the governors and the governed. Anyway, Glasgow became a book called The Dreaming City which we launched last summer. Here's a podcast we recorded about it a couple of weeks ago.

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5. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime) ]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:13:29 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10665 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10665


So, apparently the police are watching 2,000 terror suspects, but they aren’t the only ones watching them – there’s the rest of us too. Last week Jamie Bartlett gave a lecture about community based approaches to counter terrorism in Canada - the terror threat may come from global networks, but it’s in local communities that young Muslims become radicalised. Jamie's lecture makes up this week's podcast (it's 35 minutes long).

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5. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime) ]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:20:34 -0100 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10556 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10556

There's a new pamphlet around the corner about the future of the British Armed Forces - available from here on Nov 5th. "Out of Step - The case for change in the British Armed forces" argues that the armed forces are constrained from responding to the 21st century challenges by tradition and hierarchy.   You can listen to the free Demos podcast...

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5. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime), ]]> Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:28:12 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10515 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10515
Last Thursday, we hosted a conversation among various people interested in the changes to the ways that patients talk to doctors and to each other. We were delighted to have Harry Cayton and Angela Coulter to prompt the discussion. They have both been at the heart of debates about patient engagement in health for years - Harry as patient tsar at the Department of Health and formerly head of The Alzheimer's Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.

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It's quite a long one so maybe it's worth having some markers: Harry Cayton starts at 1:33 and Angela Coulter starts at 6:54.

We have also produced a note of the discussion, which is here.

We wrote a discussion paper to get things going. It captures our emerging ideas in the healthy conversations project. Next, we'll be exploring these with patient groups and professionals. And we'll see how the hope of conversational healthcare matches the everyday reality.]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:59:58 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Jack Stilgoe ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10477 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10477 DCMS set up a series of working groups of experts and professionals to look at the future of the Creative Industries - these groups were supposed to be feeding into the production of a Green Paper, due to be published back in the Spring. It still hasn't materialised. The Creative Industries (graphic design, music, media etc) matter because (a) they are a large part of where our expressive culture comes from - having the skills to access them isn't just about the future of the economy (as most argue) it's also about who does and doesn't have a cultural voice (b) the new ways of doing business in the creative economy could offer new ways of working to the wider economy. It's these kind of issues, and more that are discussed in this demos podcast, a discussion of our recently published pamphlet "So, what do you do?". You can listen to the podcast...

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4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime), ]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:12:36 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10439 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10439 seen and heard" argues that children have been written out of public space - they can stay inside, go to the park or basically they can forget it. In this podcast the report's authors Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman and Peter Bradwell argue that rather than containing kids in playgrounds and skate parks, all public spaces should be made play-friendly. The pamphlet will be out soon - it just kind of depends if the impending media-blanket that would be a general election hits or not. In the meantime you can listen to the podcast...

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4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime), ]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:59:43 -0100 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10329 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10329 Cultural Diplomacy', published earlier this year. Recorded in the surrounds of a very noisy Demos office, they talk about the emerging role of culture in international relations, and how our perceptions of the world around us are shaped by engaging with culture in various ways.

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]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:47:48 -0100 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10190 http://groups.demos.co.uk/items/10190

We're all off for a week now, so if you try and call the office, you'll probably get the irritating voicemail that we can't change that just says "DEMOS" in a rather sinister fashion. Sorry in advance. As a parting shot, here's a Demos podcast. It's Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell talking about their pamphlet "As you like it" which was launched to a chorus of "what absolute drivel, what rubbish, what poppycock" back in March. Sitting outside St. Paul's Cathedral a few weeks ago, they talk about how globalisation is changing English and has removed the natural competitive advantage it used to assure for Britons. They also try and explain why it aroused such animosity in some quarters

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]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:12:33 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims )