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Global Physics: From Percolation to Terrorism, Guerilla Warfare and Clandestine Activities [PDF]
The September 11 attack on the US has revealed an unprecedented terrorism with worldwide range of destruction. It is argued to result from the first worldwide percolation of passive supporters. They are people sympathetic to the terrorism cause but without being involved with it. They just don't oppose it in case they could.
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INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF THE CHILD ABDUCTIONS [PDF]
The occurrence of international child abductions is not of a recent age, although the term “abduction” is of a relatively recent date. By studying ancient legal sources (Roman law, rights in ancient Greece, rights in Mesopotamia etc.) legal fragments ...
Miro Katić
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This systematic review consists of two parts. Part I seeks to synthesise evidence from primary or secondary research studies examining the implementation and effectiveness of case management tools and approaches currently being used to counter ...
James Lewis+7 more
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Identifying the global terror hubs and vulnerable motifs using complex network dynamics [PDF]
Terrorism instills fear in the minds of people and takes away the freedom of individuals to act as they will. Terrorism has turned out to be an international menace today. Here, we study the terrorist attack incidents which occurred in the last half-century across the globe from the open source, Global Terrorism Database, and develop a view on their ...
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Dynamic Matrix of Extremisms and Terrorism (DMET): A Continuum Approach Towards Identifying Different Degrees of Extremisms [PDF]
We propose to extend the current binary understanding of terrorism (versus non-terrorism) with a Dynamic Matrix of Extremisms and Terrorism (DMET). DMET considers the whole ecosystem of content and actors that can contribute to a continuum of extremism (e.g., right-wing, left-wing, religious, separatist, single-issue). It organizes levels of extremisms
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Prevention of Terrorist Crimes in the North Caucasus Region [PDF]
The relevance of the topic is dictated by the fact that in recent decades, the threat to international security emanating from terrorism has increased many times. Terrorist organizations have become full-fledged subjects of politics on a par with political parties.
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Flexible multivariate spatio-temporal Hawkes process models of terrorism [PDF]
We develop flexible multivariate spatio-temporal Hawkes process models to analyze patterns of terrorism. Previous applications of point process methods to political violence data mainly utilize temporal Hawkes process models, neglecting spatial variation in these attack patterns.
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Spur to Violence?: 'Anders Behring Breivik and the Eurabia conspiracy'
This article analyzes the conspiratorial dimensions of Breivik’s body of thought. The position is defended that conspiracy theorizing is the discursive mechanism by which the ruling political elite is depicted as a hostile conspiratorial actor that ...
Jelle van Buuren
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Gender-specific behavior change following terror attacks [PDF]
Terrorists use violence in pursuit of political goals. While terror often has severe consequences for victims, it remains an open question how terror attacks affect the general population. We study the behavioral response of citizens of cities affected by $7$ different terror attacks. We compare real-time mobile communication patterns in the first $24$
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The Political Nature of International Terrorism
This study focuses on identifying the nature of international terrorism as an extremely negative phenomenon of modern politics, as well as on defining such terms as “international terrorism” and “terrorism”.Aim.
J. V. Berladir, I. K. Kharichkin
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