The Age of Ambiguity: Art and the War on Terror Twenty Years after 9/11
9/11 and its aftermath was to have a dramatic impact on the visual arts and the artistic response to the War on Terror. This study surveys the evolution of these responses from the dramatic events of 11 September 2001 to the longer term reactions generated by the two-decade long encounter with t...
Tolerance as a Legitimation Strategy in Oman’s Political Discourse: From Religious to Foreign Policy Principle
In the past few decades, the concept of tolerance has gained a central place in Oman’s political discourse and foreign policy. It is often attributed to the country’s national identity, which in turn is interpreted as deriving from Oman’s Ibadi tradition, the cosmopolitan character of its ...
Transforming Pacifists into Warmongers? Separatist Movement, State Repression, and the Politics of Framing Terrorism in Nigeria: Evidence from IPOB and Yoruba Nation’s Freedom Frontiers
While the post-9/11 event has animated how state actors frame terrorism, contemporary studies have failed to address the politics inherent in proscribing, repressing, and labeling separatist movements as terrorists. This paper explores the politics of framing terrorism using the contemporary selfde...
Transitional Justice and Terrorism: The Case of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has experienced a 26-year-long civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the latter. Since the end of the conflict, Sri Lanka has engaged in a transitional justice process, which has been characterised by a m...
Police community engagement and outreach in a counterterrorism context
Police engagement of Muslim communities to prevent terrorism is fraught with tension. This paper presents results from in-depth interviews with members of the Australian Federal Police Community Liaison Team (CLT) to understand the practice of community engagement and the tactical and strategic cons...
Practices and rationales of community engagement with wind farms: awareness raising, consultation, empowerment
In light of the growing emphasis on community engagement in the literature on renewable energy planning, and given the acknowledgement of the complexity of community engagement as a concept, we conducted an empirical review of practice relating to community engagement with onshore wind farms in t...
Remembering and storytelling: community engagement through a service-learning partnership
This article highlights a four-year community engagement project to engage residents in remembering historic and iconic places, which served the community during its heyday, and envisioning future development. The project was realized over four years through a partnership between a capstone comm...
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework: an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change
Higher education’s focus is shifting to include societal impact alongside academic excellence. While community-engaged scholarship has a long history, many initiatives focus on individual researchers or institutional practices, without accounting for disciplinary and geopolitical contexts. The Com...
The role of social distance in the relationship between police-community engagement and police coercion
While there is a considerable body of evidence on the influence of individual and situational, and to a lesser extent community factors, on police use of force, little is known about the influence of police agency factors on use of force by police. Greater use of community policing approaches has r...
Police community engagement and outreach in a counterterrorism context
Police engagement of Muslim communities to prevent terrorism is fraught with tension. This paper presents results from in-depth interviews with members of the Australian Federal Police Community Liaison Team (CLT) to understand the practice of community engagement and the tactical and strategic cons...
Practices and rationales of community engagement with wind farms: awareness raising, consultation, empowerment
In light of the growing emphasis on community engagement in the literature on renewable energy planning, and given the acknowledgement of the complexity of community engagement as a concept, we conducted an empirical review of practice relating to community engagement with onshore wind farms in the ...
Practices and rationales of community engagement with wind farms: awareness raising, consultation, empowerment
In light of the growing emphasis on community engagement in the literature on renewable energy planning, and given the acknowledgement of the complexity of community engagement as a concept, we conducted an empirical review of practice relating to community engagement with onshore wind farms in the ...
Quality Assurance of Community Engagement in South African Higher Education Institutions: Problems and Prospects
The quality assurance of community engagement was flagged as a major problem during the last cycle of audits of South African Higher Education Institutions (SAHEIs) by the Higher Education Quality Committee. Through the implementation of critical literature review methodology and comparing similari...
Remembering and storytelling: community engagement through a service-learning partnership
This article highlights a four-year community engagement project to engage residents in remembering historic and iconic places, which served the community during its heyday, and envisioning future development. The project was realized over four years through a partnership between a capstone comm...
Solidarity and Community Engagement in Global Health Research
Community engagement (CE) is gaining prominence in global health research. A number of ethical goals–spanning the instrumental, intrinsic, and transformative–have been ascribed to CE in global health research. This paper draws attention to an additional transformative value that CE is not typica...
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework: an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change
Higher education’s focus is shifting to include societal impact alongside academic excellence. While community-engaged scholarship has a long history, many initiatives focus on individual researchers or institutional practices, without accounting for disciplinary and geopolitical contexts. The Co...
The role of social distance in the relationship between police-community engagement and police coercion
While there is a considerable body of evidence on the influence of individual and situational, and to a lesser extent community factors, on police use of force, little is known about the influence of police agency factors on use of force by police. Greater use of community policing approaches has re...
A lake management framework for global application: monitoring, restoring, and protecting lakes through community engagement
Cianci-Gaskill JA, Klug JL, Merrell KC, et al. 2024. A lake management framework for global application: monitoring, restoring, and protecting lakes through community engagement. Lake Reserv Manage. 40:66–92. Despite decades of management and regulation, global freshwater resources remain imper...
Neoliberal social inclusion? The agenda of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance
University–community engagement (UCE) represents a hybrid discourse and a set of practices within contemporary higher education. As a modality of research and teaching, ‘engagement’ denotes the process of universities forming partnerships with external communities for the promised generation ...
TALIBAN OR TERRORIST? SOME REFLECTIONS ON TALIBAN’S IDEOLOGY
This article reflects religious, political and cultural foundations of Taliban’s creed which makes them different in the Islamic world as well as gives them special place in today’s international power politics. The main objective of this article is to review Taliban’s policies which are manif...
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS: CRIMINAL SET
This article is devoted to the actual problem of splicing of organized crime with religious extremism, in particular, with the Islamic organizations. The problem of Wahhabism’s growing in criminal environment remains poorly studied. Special attention is paid to Islamic proselytism among Russian pr...
TERRORIST THREATS BY BALKANS RADICAL ISLAMIST TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
The decade-long armed conflict in the Balkans from 1991 to 2001, greatly misrepresented in the Western public, were the biggest defeat for the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, a great defeat for Europe - but a victory for global jihad. Radical Islamists used the wars to recruit a large number of Su...
FROM RADICALISM TO TOLERANCE: MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE
Following its establishment in 1962, the Muslim World League (MWL) was meant to be an organization that expands the outreach of Saudi Arabia and its then Wahabi version of Islam in the world in the time when other competing ideologies, especially Arab nationalism, were on the rise. This allowed i...
ERRONEOUS SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE CONCEPT OF JIHAD AND THE CONCEPT OF TERRORISM: (A QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVE
Islam-phobia is undoubtedly the result of sustained systemic propaganda that links irrationally between terrorism and jihad, simply because acts of terror are connected to some individuals or groups who belong to Muslim communities. Accordingly, to examine the hypothesis of the distinction between J...
RELIGION, CONFLICT, VIOLENCE, AND TOLERANCE IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: THE ISA/RC22 ABUJA 2012 CONFERENCE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE POLITOLOGY OF RELIGION
In collaboration with PANAFSTRAG (Pan-African Strategic and Policy Research Group), the Sociology of Religion Research Committee (RC22) of the International Sociological Association, held their Mid-Term International Conference from 27–30 January 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria.1 The theme of the Confe...
TERRORISTS OR LEGITIMATE INSURGENTS? THE TALIBAN STATUS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
The term terrorism is not subject to a universally accepted definition. However, it is generally used to describe the use of violence against civilian targets to spread fear and distress and thereby achieve ideological and/or political objectives. Specific acts of terrorism, whether national or inte...
UNHOLY WAR AND JUST PEACE: RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVES TO SECULAR WARFARE
This essay argues that contemporary warfare seems to be religious but is in fact secular in nature and as such calls forth religious alternatives. The violence unleashed by Islamic terrorism and the ‘global war on terror’ is secular in this sense that it is unmediated and removes any universal e...
IDEOLOGICAL VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHIDO CHURCH IN THE POST-1960s
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC) is one of the religious institutions in Ethiopia. The EOTC has encountered many challenges that caused physical and epistemic violence. This study explores the two historical trends that the EOTC and its believers faced with epistemic and physical violen...
FUNDAMENTALISMS, SECURITY CRISIS AND TOLERANCE IN GLOBAL CONTEXT: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE
In recent times, the resurgence of critical security questions has gained prominence in global tabloid, consciousness and discourse. From Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen to Syria; the Nigerian experiences of the Golden Jubilee Independence bombing, for which MEND claimed responsibility, the Bo...
DIGGING ISLAMIC ROOTS OF JIHAD TO UNVEIL THE TRUTH
Islam, like all the great world religions and their scriptures, offer a universal message, a discourse that can speak to all times and places. Believers of this religion, in every age and situation, find teachings, principles, and values that give them meaning and guidance. The Quran and the Sunnah,...
A Man of Peace: In Memory of Hayim Katsman (1991 – 2023)
Hayim Jeshurun Katsman, a brilliant academic, intellectual, educator, musician, mechanic, gardener, and peace activist, was born to his parents Hannah and Daniel on October 4, 1991. Tragically, his life was cut short when he was murdered in Kibbutz Holit on October 7, 2023. His loss leaves a void...
JAHILIYYAH RHETORIC AS A DIVINE LEGITIMACY FOR VIOLENCE: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF SAYYID QUTB AND THE CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIST ORTHODOXY ON AL-QAEDA, THE TALIBAN, AND THE ISLAMIC STATE
The Islamic conception of Jahiliyyah brings together the three most debated Muslim militant organizations of our times, namely Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Taliban in terms of their justification for violence. It is discussed here that despite significant differences in their political agend...
JIHAD AS A SOURCE OF TERRORISM A REALITY OR PROPAGANDA
Throughout the ages, Islam has been misunderstood and surrounded by a number of false allegations. One of these allegations, given contemporary form, is to associate jihad with terrorism and violence and to claim that the message of Islam was spread through the sword. It is therefore an imperative ...
HOW RELIGION MATTERS: ISLAMOPHOBIA, TERRORISM AND TWITTER
Twitter, as one of the most used social media tools, helps construction of virtual communities and provides members with opportunity to reflect opinions, thoughts, emotions etc. With respect to the said feature of it, an analysis of public reaction over Twitter was conducted regarding four terrorist...
امن کا اسلامی بیانیہ: تعارف و اہمیت
Islam carries the message of peace and security in its own name. There are many instances in the Qur’ān and Sīrah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) which emphasize the need to establish peace and harmony in society. In fact, one of the first steps that the Prophet (peace be upon him) took after...
تقييم المادة العلمية في المواقع الإلكترونية الموجهة للوقاية من التطرف والإرهاب في المجتمع السعودي دراسة ميدانية باستخدام تحليل المح
This research aims to evaluate the contents of websites developed to counter extremism and terrorism in Saudi society. It also assesses their effectiveness and impact. The research further studies these websites, uncovers their role in preventing extremism and terrorism, and classifies their content...
A Blessing or a Curse? State Support for Terrorist Groups
Little existing work has systematically examined the factors that help terrorist groups survive or contribute to their failure. State support for terrorist groups is commonly thought to be a factor that helps groups to survive. I demonstrate with newly collected data that state sponsorship is not al...
Deradicalizing Detained Terrorists
Deradicalization of terrorists constitutes a critical component of the global " war on terror " Unfortunately, little is known about deradicalization programs, and evidence for their effectiveness is derived solely from expert impressions and potentially flawed recidivism rates. We pres...
Early Communications in the War Against Terrorism: An Integrative Complexity Analysis
Integrative complexity reflects the degree to which the source of a communication perceives several dimensions and points of view relevant to the topic (differentiation) and the degree to which such characteristics are seen as related to each other (integration). During international crises, bila...
Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt
The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021–2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks came at the crossroads of Western pressure to improve human rights and the state's use of counterterrorism to silence voices. The recent a...
Terrorists and Democrats: Individual Reactions to International Attack
Three experiments conducted in 1997 and 1998 explored individual responses to reported fictitious international conflict involving the United States and other nations. Participants escalated the conflictual level of their responses to repeated attacks. In Experiment 1, escalation of conflict was ...
Gerry Adams and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Research Note
This research note uses Hermann's personality-at-a-distance (PAD) method and applies it to negotiating behavior. Gerry Adams's personality and its effect upon his negotiating behavior in the current peace process in Northern Ireland is used as an illustration of the expanded application...
Notes on Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Caring and Peace, and the Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs
Some conditions in the lives of children, adults, and groups can be construed as fulfilling universal human psychological needs. The constructive fulfillment of these basic needs promotes caring and positive, helpful relations; their frustration creates an inclination toward hostility and aggression...
The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees
Social media, as an important resource of information for many contentious topics, has great affective potential in terms of anger and fear. We investigated how exposure to news about refugees on social media is related to negative attitudes toward refugees as well as attitudinal differentiatio...
Political Expectations and Cultural Perceptions in the Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations
In the various Arab-Israeli peace negotiations that have taken place since the late 1970s, each party entered the process, and continues to function within it, from the vantage point of different political expectations and cultural perceptions. These differences derive from the political features an...
Quest for Significance and Violent Extremism: The Case of Domestic Radicalization
In the present study, we applied the quest for significance model of radicalization to explain the use of political violence. According to the model, when people experience loss of personal significance (e.g., due to social rejection, achievement failures, or abuse ) the motivation to restore sign...
Radicalization into Violent Extremism I: A Review of Social Science Theories
In discourse about countering terrorism, the term "radicalization" is widely used, but remains poorly defined. To focus narrowly on ideological radicalization risks implying that radical beliefs are a proxy—or at least a necessary precursor—for terrorism, though we know this not to b...
Terrorism and Education
This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliographies and other resources on the multi-faceted relationship between terrorism and education. It covers a wide range of aspects (such as how education affects radicalisation process...
When Hatred is Bred in the Bone: Psycho-cultural Foundations of Contemporary Terrorism
Terrorists are not crazed fanatics. Indeed, terrorist groups screen out emotionally unstable individuals--they would be a security risk. Rather it is group, organizational, and social psychology, with particular emphasis on collective identity that motivates terrorist behavior. There is a diverse sp...
Illicit Trade and Terrorism
Terrorist participation in illicit trade is not only about revenue generation. It serves many functions: destruction of history, demoralization of communities, the weakening of social solidarity, and harms individuals’ health and well-being. It also pays for the social service functions of terro...
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