In the two years since the July 7 London bombings, attention in Britain has increasingly been focused on the sociological and cultural context from which the attacks, and their perpetrators, emerged.
It has now been recognised that the defeat of Islamist terrorism will not come about by military means alone, but in combination with long-term concerned efforts to address this sociological and cultural context at home and abroad.
However, there remains little agreement as to the true nature of this, and thus what lessons actually need to be learned.
Last month, Britain's Commission on Integration and Cohesion - set up a year after the attacks - published its final report. The British government had cited a lack of integration among immigrants as the primary cause of the bombers' discontent. Thus, the commission was mandated to examine how Britain is being affected by diversity, migration and globalisation, and how it should respond in the future.
The report - whose recommendations included establishing specialist integration teams and giving out 'cultural briefing packs' to new arrivals - has been greeted positively in some quarters, but with significant contempt and disgust within numerous others.
While some welcomed it as a well-meaning attempt to bring together Britain's diverse populace and address the societal factors that have allowed terrorists to recruit members, others have characterised it as the latest example of the 'head-in-the-sand' approach that allowed 7/7 to transpire in the first place.
The commission has been accused of creating a 'fantasy Britain', in which communities exist that all share and respect the same value systems and moral reference points, despite the evidence to the contrary.