Defining and Distinguishing Secular and Religious Terrorism
Perspectives on Terrorism, 2014 Religious terrorism is typically characterised as acts of unrestrained, irrational and indiscriminant violence, thus offering few if any policy options for counterterrorism measures.
Heather S. Gregg
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What do ‘middle class’ terrorists tell us about the link between poverty and terrorism? [PDF]
, 2014 Introduced in 2006, the Prevent workstream of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) has provided a focus for often heated debates about what drives people to support or take part in violent extremism and terrorism in the UK.
Busher, Joel
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Fundamentalism and terrorism [PDF]
, 2015 Citizens worldwide are becoming all too familiar with the accelerated frequency of terrorist attacks in the 21st century, particularly with those involving a religious underpinning. Why, though, have religiously-affiliated acts of terrorism become such a
Rausch, Cassandra Christina
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Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2022 This study examines the normative hypothesis explaining the nexus between terrorism and Abrahamic religious tradition, particularly the Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalist sect in North-Eastern Nigeria.
Theophilus Oyime Adejumo +2 more
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‘Soldiers of God or Allah’: Religious Politicization and the Boko Haram Crisis in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2013 Special Edition issue - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Sub-Saharan AfricaSeveral works on Boko Haram have underscored the issues of state weakness and bad governance in Nigeria as the major problematic fuelling the group’s violent activities.
Benjamin Maiangwa, Maiangwa, Benjamin
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Religiously funded terrorism: Religion as the initiator of violence [PDF]
Војно дело, 2017 Many terrorist organizations clearly base their actions and decisions on a religious basis. Of course, ideology plays a key role in building a view of the world of members of terrorist organizations, but it is not a static reference point, and it ...
Krstić Marko M.
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Features of Legal Perception of the Phenomena of Extremism and Terrorism in Different Mental Civilizations: General Theoretical and Historical-Philosophical Aspects [PDF]
Пенитенциарная наука, 2021 Introduction: the article reveals how extremism and terrorism are perceived in different mental civilizations: paganism (polytheism), monotheism and scientific worldview, from the standpoint of the legal consciousness of ordinary, canonical and ...
SERGEI S. OGANESYAN, TARIM A. KHAADI
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Terrorism in Indonesia: a review on rehabilitation and deradicalization [PDF]
, 2015 In the context where terrorism is viewed as an act of crime based on ideology, rehabilitating offenders are significantly critical. This journal aims to identify terror activists’ behavior transformation process, critical development areas needed in ...
Zora, A. Sukabdi
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Religious Fundamentalism: Threats on Religious Life in West Sumatera-Indonesia
AJIS: Academic Journal of Islamic Studies, 2021 This study aims to describe religious fundamentalism problems. Radicalism movement is caused by textual religious understanding and social as well political condition that are not conducive to the religious fundamentalism group.
Novi Hendri +2 more
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Religion and Terrorism: Is Far-Right Terrorism Another Form of Religious Terrorism?
, 2023 This chapter examines how the construction of Islamist terrorism, as a non-secular religiously inspired form of terrorism, has amplified the constructed risk of Islamist terrorism and how the construction of far-right terrorism and extreme nationalism ...
Ahmed, S., den Heyer, G.
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