"Re-Programming" Terrorists
Sara Schonhardt is a freelance writer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has lived and worked in Southeast Asia for six years and has a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
Research shows terrorists are not typically mentally ill, but have been brainwashed by extremist ideologies. Is an Indonesian program aimed at de-radicalizing convicted terrorists an international model, or does it coddle criminals?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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