Security, Law and Religion

The course aims to illustrate not only the processes of religious radicalisation, but, more in detail, to deepen the strategies of counter-narrative, de-radicalisation and prevention of jihadist extremism in Europe.
To this end, the lessons are intended as:
- provide the legal tools to analyze and manage the challenges posed by fundamentalism in an interdisciplinary perspective;
- critically examine of counter-narrative models implemented in Europe;
- investigate the role of the exercise of fundamental rights, and in particular the right to religious freedom, in a strategy to combat jihadist radicalisation.

- Knowledge and comprehension of the main legal issues posed by violent religious radicalisation;

- Ability to reason from an interdisciplinary perspective;

- Independent judgment in the analysis of the cases treated and in the identification of the solutions applicable to them;

- Communication skills, argumentative consistency, systematic reasoning and language properties;

- Ability to adapt the knowledge to the contexts studied and the legal cases addressed.