Public policies to promote community cohesion
Public policies to promote community cohesion
This chapter focuses upon strategies to respond to the darker sides of ‘community’, the more exclusionary sides, and the conflicts that can so easily be exacerbated within as well as between communities. Public policies have addressed these issues in more – or less- successful ways. Public policies can backfire, just as they can have the effect of reinforcing negative stereotypes of the ‘other’. This criticism has been applied to policies to promote community cohesion via ‘Prevent’ programmes against violent extremism, for example, in the context of the so-called ‘War on Terror’. The chapter concludes by focussing upon policy interventions that have been making a difference more constructively, supporting communities to identify shared interests, negotiating differences and developing solidarity in the process.
Keywords: Prevent agendas, War on Terror, Community cohesion, Community conflicts, Violent extremism
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