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Values and violence : intangible aspects of terrorism
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- Creator
- edited by Ibrahim A. Karawan, Wayne McCormack, Stephen E. Reynolds
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781402086595, 1402086598, 9789048134045, 9048134048
- OCLC
- ocn260207853
- "The essays in this volume are products of a conference at the University of Utah that was itself the outgrowth of an in-house study group which began meeting in 2005"--P. ix.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Violence in identity / Amartya Sen -- Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami -- Ideas as weapons : militant Islamist groups in Egypt / Ibrahim Karawan -- Female terrorists : martyrdom and gender equality / Marilyn Friedman -- Ethnicity and indoctrination for violence : the efficiency of producing terrorists / Frank Salter -- The clash within : democracy and the Hindu Right / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Assessing the state of Al Qaeda and current and future terrorist threats / Bruce Hoffman -- The debate over "new" vs. "old" terrorism / Martha Crenshaw -- Globalization, social capital and networked violence : the role of values / Benjamin N. Judkins and Stephen E. Reynolds -- Geospatial analysis of dynamic terrorist networks / Richard Medina and George Hepner -- Developing moral agency in the midst of violence : children, political conflict, and values / Cecilia Wainryb and Monisha Pasupathi -- Violent and non-violent responses to state failure : Papua New Guinea and Ecuador / Ken Jameson and Polly Wiessner -- Terrorism, Islam and America : in search of a disarming narrative / Tom Farer -- The importance of values in the fight against terrorism / Amos N. Guiora -- "Terrorism" : reflections on legitimacy and policy considerations / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Values implicated in the struggle with terrorism : war, crime, and prevention / Wayne McCormack