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National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Abstract:
1 July 7, 2010, marks the fifth anniversary of the 2005 terrorist attacks on London’s Metro system. In 2005, terrorists launched a coordinated attack against London’s transportation system, with 3 bombs detonating simultaneously at three different Metro stations and a fourth bomb exploding an hour later on a city bus. In all, there were 52 victims in these bombings with an additional 700 injuries resulting. The four terrorists who executed the attacks were killed in the explosions.read more
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The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism
Arie W. Kruglanski,Michele J. Gelfand,Jocelyn J. Bélanger,Anna Sheveland,Malkanthi Hetiarachchi,Rohan Gunaratna +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of radicalization and deradicalization based on the notion that the quest for personal significance constitutes a major motivational force that may push individuals toward violent extremism.
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Domestic versus transnational terrorism: Data, decomposition, and dynamics
TL;DR: In this article, a method to separate the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) into transnational and domestic terrorist incidents was proposed, which is essential for the understanding of some terrorism phenomena when the two types of terrorism are hypothesized to have different impacts.
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Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation: A Conceptual Discussion and Literature Review
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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses
TL;DR: Findings call for developing crisis communication theory that is more focused on how publics communicate with each other rather than with organizations about disasters and predict a wider variety of crisis communication outcomes.
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Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the outcomes of civil wars to assess whether rebel groups that use terrorism fare better than those who eschew this tactic, and find that while civil wars involving terrorism are harder to end than other wars, in those that do end, terrorist rebel groups fare no better, indeed they fare worse than non-terrorist groups.
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
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E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture
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