Deradicalisation of Muslim Youth from Politico-Religious Thuggery in Nasarawa State

The literature on radicalization and deradicalisation suffers from a lack of agreement on how some important terms should be defined. Therefore, this paper seeks to first, clarify some key concepts to avoid confusion. Generally, the term radicalization is “the process of adopting an extremist belief system, including the willingness to use, supports, or facilitates violence, as a method to effect societal change”. On the other hand, deradicalisation, is the process of abandoning an extremist ideologies and principles as well as concluding that which is not acceptable to use violence to effect social change.(Source) As part of the deradicalisation process, there is a recognition that social, political, and economic transformation will only occur slowly and in a pluralistic environment.