Overview of Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Psychosocial Dynamics Book

The book is a comprehensive compilation of articles by experts in the field of suicide terrorism from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on suicide missions. It provides an insightful perspective on suicide terror as a phenomenon and as a process and suggests psychosocial pathways for understanding the enigma that suicide terror poses.Understanding Suicide Terrorism delves upon the enigmatic issue of suicide terrorism. The book is an interdisciplinary multi-faceted venture that brings together scholarly work from across the world, across cultures and societies on the issue of suicide terror. The common thread weaving through all the articles is the notion of suicide terror as a complex phenomenon that defies easy explanation, prediction or controllability. Informed by theoretical stances of not only psychological sciences but other social sciences like political science, criminology, military and sociology the book is an insightful reading.Table of Contents:Foreword Professor Ariel MerariPrefaceI: Suicide Terrorism: A PhenomenonSuicide Terrorism: Delineating the Construct Swati Mukherjee, Updesh Kumar and Manas K MandalSuicide Terrorism Explained: A Psychosocial Approach Luis de la Corte Ib ezEvolutionary Psychological Science of Suicide TerrorismcJames R. Liddle and Todd K ShackelfordSuicide Terrorism as Social Noise: A Communicative PerspectivecJonathan Matusitz Mumbai Style : Exploration of a ConceptcMark DechesneSuicide Bombing: Homicidal Killing or a Weapon of War?Riaz HassanII: Suicide Terrorism: A ProcessThe Psychology of Suicide Terrorism Jerrold M. Post, Farhana Ali, Schuyler W. Henderson, Stephen Shanfield, Jeff Victoroff and Stevan WeineThe Militant Jihadi Ideology of Martyrdom as Short-lived Psychological First-Aid for Trauma and Loss Anne SpeckhardAre Suicide Terrorists Suicidal? Bruce Bongar, Uri Kugel and Victoria KendrickThe Role of Military Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Understanding Suicide Terrorism Uri Kugel, Laurie Black, Joseph Tomlins, Elvin Sheykhani, Bruce Bongar, Morgan Banks and Larry JamesThe Use and Abuse of Children/Youth in Terrorism and Suicide Bombing Edna Erez and Anat BerkoDeterring Suicide Terrorism Dushyant SinghAuthor IndexSubject Index

• Book Type :

SocialSciences

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

9351500349

• Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Psychosocial Dynamics Published On :

15 Sep 2014

• Resource:

Students and Professionals:Textbooks, SocialSciences

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