Role of mass media as to counteraction against youth extremism and terrorism

http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/AM.05-16.099

A.S. Rozanov is Cand. of Political Sc., senior lecturer at Lomonosov Moscow State University

e-mail: rozanov@fgp.msu.ru

Formulated are basic approaches to solving of the problem of counteraction against the threat of youth extremism and terrorism. Characterized are concrete approaches, together formatting “key” for timely detection and blocking of terrorist threats. Successful counteraction against these threats, in the author’s opinion, objectively lies in literate youth policy. In formulation of such policy, notes the author, obvious is, that you ought have thought before about the fact, that the young people, on the one hand, are most susceptible to radical ideas, and at the other hand, namely the youth has necessary potential to effective counteraction against terrorism, since quickly enough and almost painlessly adapt to new social economic and political conditions and is distinguished by high level of intellectual activity. Also analyzed is role of mass media as to counteraction against youth extremism and terrorism.

Key words: extremism, terrorism, mass media, prevention of extremism.

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