Prevention of extremism and terrorism as a process of students' citizenship development

The paper examines the process of students’ civic position development through the system of preventive work of the ideology of extremism and terrorism. A special place in the aggravation of social tension among young people has a complex of solutions to social problems, including problems of the quality of education, accessibility of services in the sphere of culture and art, social inequality, significant stratification of society into poor and rich. The authors consider youth as an object of state policy, on the position of activity of which the vector of development of Russia will depend. Socially, young people at student age risk being marginalized when their views on what is happening in society have not yet been established, and their behavior is not determined by practically any socio-economic factors. The spread of the ideology of extremism among young people today is becoming the most dangerous social phenomenon in modern society, and extremism can develop into more serious crimes, such as terrorism, murder, infliction of grievous bodily harm, mass demonstrations and riots. The paper presents the results of preventive work with students aimed at the development of attitudes of tolerant behavior, religious tolerance, peacefulness.