Understanding suicide terrorism : psychosocial dynamics / edited by Updesh Kumar, Manas K. Mandal.

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...

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Other Authors: Kumar, Updesh (Editor)
Mandal, Manas K. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2014.
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Physical Description:xix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |a Section I: Suicide Terrorism: A Phenomenon -- Suicide terrorism: Delineating the construct / Swati Mukherjee, Updesh Kumar, and Manas K. Mandal -- Suicide terrorism explained: A psychosocial approach / Luis de la Corte Ibanez -- Evolutionary psychological science suicide terrorism / James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shacklford -- Suicide terrorism as social noise: A communicative perspective / Jonathan Matusitz -- 'Mumbai style': Exploration of a concept / Mark Dechesne -- Suicide bombings: Homicidal killing or a weapon of war? / Riaz Hassan -- Section II: Suicide terrorism: A process -- The psychology of suicide terrorism / Jerrold M. Post, Farhana Ali, Schuyler W. Henderson, Stephen Shanfield, Jeff Victoroff, and Stevan Weine -- The militant Jihandi ideology of martyrdom as short-lived psychological first aid for trauma and loss / Anne Speckhard -- Are suicide terrorists suicidal? / Bruce Bongar, Uri Kugel, and Victoria Kendrick -- the role of military psychologists and psychiatrists in understanding suicide terrorism / Uri Kugel, Laurie Black, Joseph Tomlins, Elvin Sheykhani, Bruce Bongar, Morgan Banks, and Larry James -- The use and abuse of children/youth in terrorism and suicide bombing / Edna Erez and Anat Berko -- Deterring suicide terrorism / Dushyant Singh. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a 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. --Provided by publisher. 
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