Rachel Briggs
Director, Hostage UK
Rachel Briggs is Director of Hostage UK, a charity chaired by Terry Waite. It aims to provide support and practical help to the families of hostages and the hostages upon release, and also offers educational services to organisations sending employees to work in kidnap hot spots. For more information, see www.hostageuk.org Rachel runs Hostage UK part-time, and spends the rest of her time as a visiting fellow of UCL where she conducts research on radicalisation. She is also a freelance...
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- Bringing It Home Launch This event will launch the culmination of 12 months research by Demos on community-based approaches to counter-terrorism. from : mollywebb 13th November 2006
- We're bringing it home... In December, we published Bringing it Home: Community-based approaches to counter-terrorism. Among it's key recommendations were the need for the government to get local in its approach; to talk to a much wider range of individuals and organisations; and to open up safe spaces for dissent, where the real and perceived sources of grievance could be given the air time they need.The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) will publish a new strategy in the coming... from : rachelbriggs 18th March 2007
- Who's afraid of the Respect Party? Dissent and cohesion in modern Britain For a demographic group that makes up approximately 3 per cent of the UK’s population, the Muslim community manages to command more than its fair share of newspaper headlines. Rarely does a week pass without controversy, whether it be veil-wearing women in MP’s surgeries, demands for sharia law, young men burning flags outside the Danish embassy or fundamentalist clerics preaching hatred of the West. Not to mention the wouldbe suicide bombers hiding within our communities. from : mollywebb 21st September 2007