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Waiting for a Tragedy? Exploring the Czech Republic’s Ability to Detect Radicalised Individuals Cover

Waiting for a Tragedy? Exploring the Czech Republic’s Ability to Detect Radicalised Individuals

By: Martin Zilvar  
Open Access
|Nov 2024

Abstract

Radicalisation had long been seen as something foreign, belonging more to Western Europe than to post-communist Central Europe. Considering the recent events in the Czech Republic and the 2022 Bratislava shooting, the article investigates the Concept of the Fight against Extremism and Prejudicial Hatred 2021–2026 to explore the currently involved stakeholders in its efforts to detect radicalised individuals vis-à-vis possible radicalisation-related threats emerging from its contemporary extremist landscape. As the document solely centres on the Police, Prison Service and the Probation and Mediation Service, it turns to similar institutions and services in Slovakia and Germany to outline potential inspiration and solutions for the Czech Republic. By synthesising this with the reasoning about the effective detection of radicalised individuals of predecessor Czech scholars, the article concludes that the MoI’s 2025–2026 action plan should incorporate three other stakeholders, i.e. 1) teachers, 2) children, teenagers and young people, and 3) the general public, to more appropriately meet the B2-specific objective and, crucially, to more adequately address the contemporary complexity of radicalisation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2024-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
Language: English
Page range: 355 - 378
Published on: Nov 5, 2024
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2024 Martin Zilvar, published by Metropolitan University Prague
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.