Teaching About Terrorism: Royal Holloway

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Teaching About Terrorism is a 2009/10 research project funded by C-SAP, one of the Higher Education Academy's subject networks. The project aims to research the extent and nature of teaching about terrorism in UK Universities, primarily in the disciplines of Sociology, Politics and Criminology.[1]

Freedom of Information Request 1

According to the response of this University to the initial four part teaching terrorism FOI request, the answer to all four questions was 'no'.[2]

The four questions being:

  • Does your institution provide any information or advice to students or staff on any potential liability under Terrorism legislation which might result from accessing materials for teaching or research ?
The institution does not provide any such information
  • Does your institution have any kind of procedure to review or assess reading lists, module descriptors or other teaching materials which explicitly or in practice considers questions of safety and risk under terrorism legislation as part of its remit ?
No
  • Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for dealing with any potential actions taken by the authorities against the institution, its students or staff under Terrorism legislation ?
No policy held
  • Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for ‘preventing violent extremism’ as recommended for example in the government guidance document ‘Promoting Good Campus Relations’
We do have systems in place in place: e.g. checks on external speakers for faith based groups; monitoring of religious buildings for indicators of recruitments, close liaison with local police and community engagements officers and regular police liaison with organizers of Islamic Friday prayers and attendance at the prayers. I have not been able to locate policies or documents dealing with this issue.[3]

Freedom of Information Request 2

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Teaching Terrorism, About, Teaching Terrorism, Accessed 24-September-2010
  2. ↑ Freedom of Information Results, Teaching About Terrorism: FOI Results
  3. ↑ Royal Holloway, Teaching About Terrorism FOI 1 Response, Scribd, Accessed 22-December-2010
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