This study is based on a sample of 927 interviews: 426 with people who identify as Muslim and 501 with people who have no connection with Islam. Overall, respondents from the Muslim sample trusts French state and social institutions (the army, social security, school, council, justice system, etc.) as much as, or slightly more than, […]
Cette étude se base sur un échantillon de 927 entretiens, dont 426 effectués auprès de personnes se déclarant comme « musulmanes » et 501 auprès de personnes n’ayant pas de lien avec l’islam. L’échantillon musulman·e·s se distingue du groupe de contrôle par la distribution des âges (les musulman·e·s sont dans l’ensemble plus jeunes), des situations […]
At the request of the LIBE Committee, this study assesses the extent to which EU Member States have delivered accountability for their complicity in the US CIA-led extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme and its serious human rights violations. It offers a scoreboard of political inquiries and judicial investigations in supranational and national arenas in […]
This paper examines the main EU-level initiatives that have been put forward in the weeks following the attacks in Paris in January 2015, which will be discussed in the informal European Council meeting of 12 February 2015. It argues that a majority of these proposals predated the Paris shootings and had until that point proved […]
Upon request by the LIBE Committee, this study focuses on the question of how to best prevent youth radicalisation in the EU. It evaluates counter-radicalisation policies, both in terms of their efficiency and their broader social and political impact. Building on a conception of radicalisation as a process of escalation, it highlights the need to […]
The ad hoc briefing paper “Preventing violent radicalisation and terrorist recruitment in the EU – The threat to Europe by radical Islamic terrorist groups” provides an original analysis and evaluation of the different strategies that are meant to deal with such phenomena, as well as their effectiveness. This perspective takes into account the dynamics of […]
