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1. Silke, A. (Ed). (2010) The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism. Chapters 1-5
2. Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism Report (SPT) (Hudson) Page 1-21
3. Article: The Mind of the Terrorist: A Review and Critique of Psychological Approaches; Author(s): Jeff Victoroff Source: The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 3-42
4. Section 1-4 (Borum) pp 1-21.
Borum, R. (2004). Psychology of terrorism. Tampa: University of South Florida
Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism Report (SPT) (Hudson)
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1. Silke, A. (Ed). (2010) The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism. Chapters 1-5
Silke, A. (2010). The psychology of counter-terrorism. Routledge.
Borum, R. (2010). Understanding terrorist psychology. In The psychology of counterterrorism (pp. 33-47). Routledge.
Rogers, B. (2010). The psychology of violent radicalisation. In The Psychology of CounterTerrorism (pp. 48-61). Routledge.
Kumari, R. (2010). 4 Why people support terrorism. The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism, 48
Objective Information: Summary & Highpoints
Subjective Reflections
“Victory or defeat then, ultimately boils down to a
From this article it is very clear that
question of psychology, and terrorist conflicts are no
the behavior of terrorists can be
different from the other conflicts in this respect.” (p.
explained using psychology.
1)
I still, however, find it hard to
“Even accounting for the influence of religion or
understand how a person can join a
ideology, it is vexing to discern how and why
group whose aim is to bring
someone would come to adopt beliefs and behaviors
destruction and suffering to civilians.
that support his or her involvement in subversive and
I conquer that, it has taken a long
terrorist activity, particularly violence towards civilian
time before the use of psychology
non- combatants.” (p. 20).
mechanisms in tackling matters
“While terrorism has been around for a long time
relating to terrorism and how to
surprisingly little is known about the psychological
counter terrorism.
mechanisms involved in terrorist activity, hindering
I believe that the majority of those
efforts to rehabilitate such individuals, or develop
people who are involved in terrorist
appropriate preventive actions and policies.” (p. 45).
activities are doing so due to the fact
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“Despite this perception, and the seamlessly endless
that they feel like they have no other
willingness of politicians and other leaders to
option. They are just lost people who
regurgitate a view of terrorists as monsters or
are waiting for someone to come to
madmen, evidence suggests terrorists are both rational
their rescue.
and strategic in their choice of actions.” (p. 63)
States governments should set up
“Terrorism is reviled because it breaks a moral code
rehabilitation centers to help those
of combat, along with various laws that are in place,
who choose to leave terrorists
(Whittaker, 2003).” (p. 64)
activities and join the society.
“In conclusion, the growth of extremism in the
Terrorism surely has no place in
western world must be interpreted in relation to
today’s world. Nowadays there are
political and social trends inside our bord...