Contemporary suicide terrorism : origins, trends and ways of tackling it / edited by Tatyana Dronzina and Rachid El Houaigui.

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Contemporary Suicide Terrorism in an Islamic World: Origins, Trends and Ways of Tackling, Astana, Kazakhstan, 23-26 September, 2010"--Title page verso

International conference proceedings.

Includes indexes.

Title page of PDF; (IOS Press; viewed on Jan. 10, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This book presents the research papers delivered at the conference held in Astana, Kazakhstan, in September 2010. The conference was funded by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, and provided a forum for dialogue and discussion between scholars and security practitioners from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Romania and Russia. The focus of the conference was on methodological and theoretical approaches to suicide terrorism researches. Topics addressed include: the effectiveness of suicide terrorism; the roots of suicide terrorism and its religious legitimation; the impact of new technologies on the radicalization process; terrorism and the drug trade; female suicide bombers; and migration, radicalization and disorder in the EU. Examples are drawn from experiences in the Maghreb, the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel, Dagestan, Romania, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

CONTEMPORARY SUICIDE TERRORISM: ORIGINS, TRENDS AND WAYS OF TACKLING IT; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Contents; The Elements of a Complex Analytical Approach to Suicidal Jihadism; Suicide Terrorism as the Most Effective Method of Terrorism. Military and Migratory Aspects. Ideological Basis of Terrorism and the Struggle Against it; The Suicidal Terrorist Assaults: An Attempt at Analyzing the Theological and Quasitheological Aspects; Suicide or Martyrdom: The Roots of Anger that Motivated this Volcano; Telling a Story by Dry Statistics: Suicide Terror Attacks in Israel: (1993-2008)

The Emergence of Suicide Terrorism in the MaghrebTrends in the Insurgency in Iraq: The Impact of Suicide Bombings in the Period 2003-2006; DAGESTANI Female Bombers; Jihadist Suicide Terrorism: Challenges and Strategies within the Romanian National Security Policy; Main Factors in Preventing Radicalization of Religion in Kazakhstan; Suicide Acts in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Chronology of Events (content -- analysis of mass-media); Migration, Radicalisation and Disorder in the EU An Overview; Criminal Groups, Terrorist Organizations and Drug Trade and Trafficking in Kyrgyzstan; Subject Index

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