Understanding terror : perspectives for Canadians / editor, Karim-Aly S. Kassam.
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| Language: | English |
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Calgary :
University of Calgary Press,
[2010], ©2010.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 263 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Why try to understand terror? / Karim-Aly Kassam
- Terror and its boundaries / Gwynne Dyer
- How Canada confronts terrorism : Canadian responses to 9/11 in historical and comparative context / Reg Whitaker
- Accounting for disaster : the quest from "closure" after aerial mass murder : the downing of Air India Flight 182 in comparative perspectives / Stuart Farson
- The word "terrorism" and its impact on public consciousness / George Melnyk
- Groping in the dark : how the media, absent a frame of reference, fumbled the Danish cartoon controversy / Doug Firby
- The terrorist "other" : the fundamentalist and the Islamist / Karim-Aly Kassam
- Maintaining environmental priorities in the age of terrorism / James P. Lassoie
- Responding to the terror of genocide : learning from the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 / Brent Beardsley
- Psycho-dynamics of terror : a perspective on the evolution of western civilization / Ronald Glasberg
- "The global war on terror" overdetermined as a clash of civilizations / Karim-Aly Kassam.