Talking Terrorism

Author : Harmonie Toros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136339622

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Terrorism, Talking and Transformation by Harmonie Toros Pdf

Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "negotiating with terrorists" is so often shunned by decision-makers and scholars as a policy response, concluding that such objections are primarily based on a realist and statist understanding of terrorism that has dominated the field so far. Based on interviews with top rebel and military commanders in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao and interviewing key actors in Northern Ireland, Terrorism, Talking and Transformation investigates how talking may contribute to the transformation of conflicts marked by terrorist violence. The result of this analysis is a theoretically grounded, empirically recognizable and emancipation oriented framework that can be used to investigate the potential of talking in transforming not only terrorist (and counterterrorist) violence, but also the underlying structural violence that often surrounds it. This book will be of much interest to students in the fields of terrorism studies, security studies, Southeast Asian studies, conflict resolution/transformation and IR in general, and of use to practitioners in the field.

Author : Carolin Goerzig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136938030

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Talking to Terrorists by Carolin Goerzig Pdf

This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence. The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist groups multiply when they realize that terrorism succeeds in achieving political goals. Proponents of the no-concessions doctrine have argued that there is a pattern in terrorist contagion which results from giving in to their demands. Statistical evidence for terrorist contagion is not convincing enough, however, as depicting an increase in terrorist incidences as a consequence of concessions could merely imply a flawed causality. Without an explanation for such correlations we are left wondering whether other reasons could be decisive in the increase in terrorist actions. Based on field research in four countries and interviews with current and former members of several different terrorist groups, this book establishes a qualitative relationship between concessions to terrorists on the one hand and (non-)contagion of other terrorist groups on the other. The deterrence effect, intended by the imperative never to concede, is seriously challenged. In fact, it can be precisely through concessions that groups mentalities and actions are called into question. The book will be of great interest to students of terrorism and political violence, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR/politics. Carolin Goerzig is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and has a PhD in Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

Author : Jonathan Powell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781448137527

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Across the world governments proclaim that they will never ‘negotiate with evil’. And yet they always have and always will. From jungle clearings to stately homes and anonymous airport hotels, Talking to Terrorists puts us in the room with the terrorists, secret agents and go-betweens who seek to change the course of history. Jonathan Powell has spent nearly two decades mediating between governments and terrorist organisations. Drawing on conflicts from Colombia and Sri Lanka to Palestine and South Africa, this optimistic, wide-ranging, authoritative book is about how and why we should talk to terrorists. ‘Essential reading’ Independent ‘Fascinating’ Sunday Times Now includes a new Afterword - Talking to ISIL *Perfect for fans of The Looming Tower*

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ICHRP
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9782940259793

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Talking about Terrorism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Herbst
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313324864

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Talking Terrorism by Philip Herbst Pdf

Anarchist, freedom fighter, fundamentalist, terrorist. These words are thrown about today with seeming abandon. But each of these terms, and hundreds like them, have connotations and denotations charged with meanings which can be used strategically by politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens. ^ITalking Terrorism^R defines, traces, and explains the loaded, controversial, confusing, and shifting language that surrounds terrorist activity. The dictionary comprises words used to characterize individuals, groups, or countries that commit or support acts of political violence. Also covered is the closely related language that conveys the justifications and agendas of those responding to violence, including these groups' self-characterizations, which might entail the masking of a multitude of sins. In addition, the ways terrorists use language to smear enemies, recruit and inspire group members, and communicate the righteousness of their causes are examined. Following an A-to-Z format, ^ITalking Terrorism^R identifies and defines terms in dictionary style, then explores the charged meanings of the words, and often supplies examples of the words' usage. Cross-references will lead readers to related words and show the complicated web of words used in this verbal warfare. In the words and verbal maneuvers discussed in the dictionary, readers will see how enemies are manufactured through demonization, biased media coverage and government spin in action, and brutality legitimized as virtue, along with the besmirching of its victims. Much of what readers will find may not seem encouraging, yet ^ITalking Terrorism^R will open the eyes and ears of anyone who wants to come to grips with today's tumultuous political world.

Author : Mark Perry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781458721273

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Talking to Terrorists by Mark Perry Pdf

It has long been an article of faith that the United States does not ''talk to terrorists that to engage in dialogue with groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood would be tacitly to acknowledge their status as legitimate political actors. Not so, argues Middle East expert Mark Perry. In the absence of dialogue, we have lumped these groups together with Al Qaeda as part of a monolithic enemy defined by a visceral hatred of American values. In reality, while they hold deep grievances about specific US policies, they are ultimately far more defined by their opposition to the deliberately anti-political Salafist ideology of Al Qaeda. Drawing on extensive interviews with Washington insiders, Perry describes fruitful covert meetings between members of the US armed forces and leaders of the Iraqi insurgency to demonstrate that talking to terrorists may be best way to end terrorism controversial wisdom we ignore at our peril.

Author : Anne Speckhard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 1935866516

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Talking to Terrorists by Anne Speckhard Pdf

This is an account of traveling through the West Bank and Gaza, into the prisons of Iraq, down the alleyways of the Casablanca slums, to Chechnya, into the radicalized neighborhoods of Belgium, the UK, France and the Netherlands, of sitting with the hostages of Beslan and Nord Ost, and of talking to terrorists. Dr. Speckhard gives us the inside story of what puts vulnerable individuals on the terrorist trajectory and what might take them back off of it. With more than four hundred interviews with terrorists and their friends, family members and hostages, Dr. Speckhard is one of the few experts to have such a breadth of experience. She visited, and even stayed overnight, in the intimate spaces of terrorists' homes, interviewed them in their stark prison cells, or met them in the streets of their cities and villages. Dr. Speckhard gives us a rare glimpse of terrorists within their own contexts. From the mouths of terrorists, their family members, comrades-and even their hostages, we learn of the manipulation of human weakness that can lead to violent acts. Through careful research of culture and religion and a genuine desire to understand the factors that motivate individuals to embrace terrorism, Dr. Speckhard deftly defines the lethal cocktail that leads to the creation of a terrorist. An internationally recognized expert on the psychological aspects of terrorism and an expert in the area of posttraumatic stress disorder, Dr. Speckhard's research also produces a knowledge of how to disengage, deradicalize, rehabilitate, and reverse the trajectory of a terrorist. Dr. Speckhard's studies spanning over a decade provide us with a deeper understanding of one of the most dangerous and violent phenomena of our times.

Author : Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319338378

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Talking to Terrorists, Non-Violence, and Counter-Terrorism by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

This book examines the history of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland in the 1970s-1990s and compares it with the situation in the Gaza Strip. The book takes as its cue the tragic events in Gaza in July 2014, when Israel launched Operation Protective Edge which began seven weeks of bombardment of Gaza and which led to rocket attacks by the Palestinians on Israel. In all over 2,200 people were killed. The book provides a brief history of the violence in both countries. It then analyzes the Northern Ireland Peace Process that resulted in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which ended decades of violence and led to relative peace in Northern Ireland through the process of “talking to terrorists.” The book suggests seven creative lessons for a peaceful way forward between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Author : Scott Atran
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062020741

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Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran Pdf

“Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.” —Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the City Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran is an eye-opening and important book that offers readers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the author’s unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadis—including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists, as well as members of other radical Islamic terror organizations—Talking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone.

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780007433629

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Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda by Peter Taylor Pdf

A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Investigative reporting
ISBN : 0007325533

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Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy by Peter Taylor Pdf

A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Author : Nigel Quinney,A. Heather Coyne
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781601270726

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Talking to Groups That Use Terror by Nigel Quinney,A. Heather Coyne Pdf

This handbook poses and attempts to answer a series of basic, but complex, questions: Is there any advantage to the peace process in inviting or permitting the participation of proscribed armed groups (PAGs)? What kinds of PAGs are worth talking to and which are not? What form should the talks take and whom should they involve?Each of the following six chapters covers a different step in the process of talking to groups that use terror: * assess the potential for talks * design a strategy for engagement * open channels of communication * foster commitment to the process * facilitate negotiations * and protect the process from the effects of violenceThis handbook is part of the series the Peacemaker s Toolkit, which is being published by the United States Institute of Peace. For twenty-five years, the United States Institute of Peace has supported the work of mediators through research, training programs, workshops, and publications designed to discover and disseminate the keys to effective mediation.The Institute mandated by the U.S. Congress to help prevent, manage, and resolve international conflict through nonviolent means has conceived of The Peacemaker s Toolkit as a way of combining its own accumulated expertise with that of other organizations active in the field of mediation. Most publications in the series are produced jointly by the Institute and a partner organization. All publications are carefully reviewed before publication by highly experienced mediators to ensure that the final product will be a useful and reliable resource for practitioners."

Author : Mark Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communication in international relations
ISBN : 1921372591

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Talking to Terrorists by Mark Perry Pdf

In the summer of 2004, a small group of Americans and Europeans had a series of quiet but meaningful meetings with senior officials of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Beirut, Lebanon. Several months later, in early 2005, a larger group of former senior American and European government officials and diplomats travelled to Lebanon for wide-ranging talks with these 'terrorist leaders'. The discussions were detailed, wide-ranging, blunt - and often uncomfortable, but they touched on a wide variety of political subjects: on democracy, Israel, al-Qaeda, violence ... and terrorism. The result was startling: a conviction among the participants that the United States and its allies had gotten the war on terrorism wrong, dangerously wrong. Now, in this first-hand account, one of the leaders of these delegations details how those unprecedented discussions - and an opening that he learned of that was engineered between American military officers and Iraqi insurgents based in Amman, Jordan - has helped to convince American and European policymakers to recast the war on terrorism, providing a fundamental shift in Western strategy. How to Lose the War on Terror is not only a on-the-ground, real-time account of how 'talking' and 'listening' to the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood is beginning to shift American and European perceptions, but how groups that the West once viewed as 'dead enders' and 'enemies of freedom' are now slowly being recruited in the war against America and Europe's real enemies - al Qaeda and its 'salafist' allies. Based on first-hand accounts with the participants, as well as interviews with leading American and European policy-makers, How to Lose the War on Terror is a dramatic narrative of the crippling strategic and intellectual mistakes that have mired the West in an unwinnable war - but that suggests a way forward in a conflict whose victory depends less on force than it does on a realistic understanding of the true enemy and a comprehension of the challenges we all face. After seven years of getting it wrong, are the US and its allies finally getting it right? Mark Perry's startling account helps to answer that question.

Author : Louise I. Shelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107015647

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Dirty Entanglements by Louise I. Shelley Pdf

Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism.

Author : Robin Soans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849435826

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Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans Pdf

"I looked around the room and I thought, I'm the only person in this room that hasn't killed anyone" Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in terrorism. They wanted to know what makes ordinary people do extreme things. As well as those who crossed the line, they met peacemakers, warriors, journalists, hostages and psychologists. Their stories take us from Uganda, Israel, Turkey, Iraq and Ireland - to the heart of the British establishment. Talking to Terrorists was produced Out of Joint Theatre Company at the Royal Court Theatre and on a UK tour in 2005.