Building Terrorism Resistant Communities

Author : S. Ekici,A. Ekici,D.A. McEntire
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781607504306

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Building Terrorism Resistant Communities by S. Ekici,A. Ekici,D.A. McEntire Pdf

This book includes the proceedings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 2008 Advanced Research Workshop (ARW). The goal of the meeting was to explore methods to involve the community in the fight against terrorism in an effort to enhance its protection from terrorist attacks and to establish a network between the participants for future collaborations. The two main topics of this book are: (1) Defining the problem of terrorism and collective community protection; why does terrorism exists and why do people join and/or support extremist groups? (2) Counter-terrorism practices and their relation to the community; focused on developing non-orthodox methods to combat terrorism. In other words, why communities should be included in the fight against terrorism. This book should be seen as a guide for policy makers and practitioners to gain a better understanding of how counter terrorism, as well as many other applications, requires community support and involvement to the fullest extent possible. Because the existing threat of terrorism is proof of the failed classical militaristic approaches, the time has come to integrate our communities into the practice of fighting the threat together.

Author : Shamila Ahmed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030401382

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The ‘War on Terror’, State Crime & Radicalization by Shamila Ahmed Pdf

This book examines the ‘war on terror’ and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective. Since 9/11, criminology has developed in its study of terrorism, utilising alternative non-state centric frameworks to uncover and make visible state-initiated harm. Although progress has been achieved, criminology has continued to privilege the state, thereby failing to uncover forms of state crime and how such crimes facilitate radicalization and terrorism. Ahmed aims to rectify this gap by demonstrating how crimes of the state have contributed to the existence of Islamist-inspired terrorism and the emergence of global Jihadist organisations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The ‘War on Terror’ abandons the dominant socially-constructed discourse and application of the ‘war on terror’ and instead favours a grounded approach whereby actors, actions and consequences are analysed according to the risk they represent. Ahmed achieves this grounded approach through situating state practices in international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Through documenting the intersectionality of these practices with radicalization in the emergence of global Jihadist organisations, the book demonstrates how state crimes contribute to terrorism. Although the book sits at the intersections of critical criminology, state crime, international/transnational crime, it is relevant to all disciplines that are concerned with state crime, terrorism and radicalization.

Author : Naim Kapucu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136481512

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Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism by Naim Kapucu Pdf

High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or inadequate communications, utilize flexible decision making swiftly, and expand coordination and trust between multiple emergency and crisis response agencies. These requirements are superimposed on conventional administrative systems that rely on relatively rigid plans, decision protocols, and formal relationships that assume smooth sailing and uninterrupted communications and coordination. Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism focuses on the inter-organizational performance and coordinated response to recent terrorist incidents across different national, legal, and cultural contexts in New York, Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London, and Mumbai. Effortlessly combining each case study with content analyses of news reports from local and national newspapers, situation reports from government emergency/crisis management agencies, and, interviews with public managers, community leaders, and nonprofit executives involved in response operations, Naim Kapucu presents an overview of how different countries tackle emergencies by employing various collaborative decision-making processes, thus, offering a global perspective with different approaches. These features make this book an important read for both scholars and practitioners eager to reconcile existing decision-making theories with practice.

Author : Kent R. Kerley Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440850325

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Finding Freedom in Confinement by Kent R. Kerley Ph.D. Pdf

What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding of how prisoners use faith in their everyday lives. Religion long has been a tool for correctional treatment. In the United States, religion was the primary treatment modality in the first prisons. Only since the 1980s, however, have social scientists begun to study the nature, extent, practice, and impact of faith and faith-based prison programs. Bringing together the knowledge of scholars from around the world, this single-volume book offers readers a science- and research-based understanding of how prisoners use faith in everyday life, examining the role of religion in prison/correctional contexts from a variety of interdisciplinary and international viewpoints. By considering the perspectives of professionals actually working in corrections or prison settings as well as those of scholars studying religion and/or criminal justice, readers of Finding Freedom in Confinement: The Role of Religion in Prison Life can gain insight into the most contemporary research on religion in correctional contexts. The book contains data-driven, conceptual, and policy-oriented essays that cover major religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam within correctional environments. It also addresses subject matter such as the roles of prison chaplains and correctional officers and the relationships between religion and common aspects of prison life, such as drug abuse, gangs, violence, prisoner identity, rights of prisoners, and rehabilitation.

Author : Parker Thomas David
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783266562

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Avoidingtheterroristtrap:whyrespectforhumanrightsisthekeytodefeatingterrorism by Parker Thomas David Pdf

For more than 150 years, Nationalist, Populist, Marxist and Islamist terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: Provoke the State into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Faced with a major terrorist threat, States seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding of the true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response. Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and demonstrates how a comprehensive and coherent counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law is the only truly effective approach to defeating terrorism.

Author : Vladimir Fedorenko
Publisher : Rethink Institute
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781938300288

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Timeline of Central Asia by Vladimir Fedorenko Pdf

Author : Vladimir Fedorenko
Publisher : Rethink Institute
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938300172

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Prospects for Water Cooperation in Central Asia by Vladimir Fedorenko Pdf

Author : Catalina E. Kopetz,Ayelet Fishbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351694698

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The Motivation-Cognition Interface by Catalina E. Kopetz,Ayelet Fishbach Pdf

This volume honors the work of Arie W. Kruglanski. It represents a collection of chapters written by Arie’s former students, friends, and collaborators. The chapters are rather diverse and cover a variety of topics from politics, including international terrorism, to health related issues, such as addiction and self-control, to basic psychological principles, such as motivation and self-regulation, the formation of attitudes, social influence, and interpersonal relationships. What these chapters have in common is that they have all been inspired by Arie’s revolutionary work on human motivation and represent the authors’ attempt to apply the basic principles of motivation to the understanding of diverse phenomena.

Author : Abdur Rehman Cheema
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811676000

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The Role of Mosque in Building Resilient Communities by Abdur Rehman Cheema Pdf

This book is about the role of the mosque in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Disasters give rise to a situation where people from different parts of the world, quite unfamiliar with each other, come into contact to save lives, provide necessities such as food and shelter, rebuild homes and enable community recovery. During these challenging times, community-based religious institutions such as churches, mosques and temples are a practical choice for reaching people living nearby to fulfil their needs. The book shows the contributions of the mosque as a physical, spiritual and social place for improving the knowledge and practice of disaster risk reduction and management including the COVID-19 pandemic. It also illuminates the widening role of religion in development. The book reinforces the case for broader engagement with all community-based religious institutions. The book is of interest to academics in diverse fields including development studies, disaster studies, sociology, anthropology, religion, Asian studies, emergency and disaster management. It will also of interest to the professional staff of disaster management authorities, public sector, bilateral and multilateral aid allocation and implementing agencies and those of humanitarian organizations.

Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317682554

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Resilience by David Chandler Pdf

Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional conceptions of governance. This concise and accessible book investigates how resilience-thinking adds new insights into how politics (both domestically and internationally) is understood to work and how problems are perceived and addressed; from educational training in schools to global ethics and from responses to shock events and natural disasters to long-term international policies to promote peace and development. This book also raises searching questions about how resilience-thinking influences the types of knowledge and understanding we value and challenges traditional conceptions of social and political processes. It sets forward a new and clear conceptualisation of resilience, of use to students, academics and policy-makers, emphasising the links between the rise of resilience and awareness of the complex nature of problems and policy-making.

Author : Basia Spalek
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849664820

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Terror Crime Prevention with Communities by Basia Spalek Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Historically, countering terrorism has been something that security services have carried out on behalf of the state, without community consultation or consent. Since 9/11 however, this tradition has increasingly been questioned and the idea that communities have the potential to defeat al Qaeda - related or influenced terrorism has gained ascendency across policy, security and other contexts. Based on research in the US, Britain and Northern Ireland, this book examines the involvement of Muslim and other communities in terror crime prevention work, exploring the complexities of community involvement as well as its advantages and examining how trusting relationships between police, security services and communities can be built.

Author : Yelena Biberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190929961

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Gambling with Violence by Yelena Biberman Pdf

In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their own national security by outsourcing violencearming nonstate actors inside their own borders? Drawing on over 200 interviews, archival research, and fieldwork conducted across Asia, Europe, and North America, Biberman introduces the "balance-of-interests" thesis to deepen our understanding of state-nonstate alliances in civil war. This framework centers on the distribution of power during war and shows how various combinations of interests result in distinct types of coalitions. Incorporating case studies of civil war and counterinsurgency, her book sheds light on how militias, alliances, and South Asian security connect today.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : 9781422333952

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The role of social science research in disaster preparedness and response : hearing before the Subcommittee on Research, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 10, 2005. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Roundtable on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309677370

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The Role of Advanced Technologies in Structural Engineering for More Resilient Communities by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Roundtable on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events Pdf

In an effort to develop relationships and promote dialogue and community exchange, the National Academies’ Resilient America Roundtableâ€"in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the Advances in Information Technology Committeeâ€"co-hosted a one-day workshop on September 26, 2017. The event brought together experts, practitioners, and researchers from the public, private, and academic sectors to: 1) enhance resilience and promote faster recovery by exploring the role of advanced technologies and structural performance data in existing infrastructure and built systems; 2) discuss the future role of advanced technologies and design practice in promoting community resilience; and 3) identify research gaps or opportunities in development and use of advanced technologies and design for building resilient infrastructure. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Richard Warnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003858362

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Human Factors in Effective Counter-Terrorism by Richard Warnes Pdf

This book seeks to provide a comparative assessment of the significance of ‘human factors’ in effective counter-terrorism. The phrase ‘human factors’ is used to describe personal relationships, individual capabilities, effective leadership, technical interface, organisational culture and the community engagement necessary to effectively minimise, counter and control the threat of terrorism. Unlike many works in the field, this book is constructed around the input of ‘experienced knowledge’ from over 170 semi-structured interviews of specialist military, policing, intelligence and security practitioners - those actors actually involved in countering terrorism. These practitioners come from seven countries – the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Israel, Turkey and the United States – all of which have suffered over the years from different types of terrorist threat and responded with a mixture of counter-terrorist measures. Where military practitioners also discussed overseas counter-insurgency measures, that material has been included, since terrorism forms a key aspect of such wider insurgencies. The resulting interview data was analysed through a variant of ‘Grounded Theory’ to identify key emerging themes and issues, both positive and negative, relevant to ‘human factors’ in the individual countries and more generically. This book incorporates the informed operational experiences and insights of the interviewees while seeking to provide examples of successful counter-terrorist measures at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. This book will be of much interest to students of counter-terrorism, defence studies and security studies in general.