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Combating Al Qaeda's Splinters: Mishandling Suicide Terrorism [PDF]
, 2004 The past three years saw more suicide attacks than the last quarter century. Most of these were religiously motivated. While most Westerners have imagined a tightly coordinated transnational terrorist organization headed by Al Qaeda, it seems more likely
Atran, Scott
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Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]
, 2012 In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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Navigating the dual burden of type 1 diabetes and mental illness: A phenomenological study
Diabetic Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Despite high burdens of mental illness among people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), little is known about how affected individuals experience this dual disease burden. This qualitative study aimed to address this gap. Research Design and Methods Five online focus groups were conducted with 21 adults with T1D and a history of mental ...
Zach W. Cooper +3 more
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TERRORIST TACTICS OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE ATTACKS
Сравнительная политика, 2018 The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of terrorist tactics, in particular to the search for macro-causes of the appeal to the political murders of prominent state and public fi gures. Examined are the political and social-economic conditions
A. V. Novikov
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reframes the concept of imminence of suicide risk of mentally ill offenders under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to life. The proposal is based on Article 2 domestic violence jurisprudence which has built its knowledge of lethal risk by reference to relevant expertise.
Sabina Garahan
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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The Washington Quarterly, 2004 Suicide terrorism is becoming more prominent as well as more frequently motivated by religion. To attract potential recruits away from jihadist martyrdom requires addressing basic grievances, not applying military force. Those root causes and how to address them, however, are woefully misunderstood.
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Suicide Terrorism and the Weakest Link [PDF]
In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics.
Brian Roberson +2 more
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Individual Factors in Suicide Terrorims - "Fictive Kin" in Suicide Terrorism [PDF]
, 2004 The first letter explores the role of individual vs. situational factors is explored in the genesis of suicide terrorism.
Atran, Scott
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