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LinksThe Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism
http://www.twq.com/06spring/docs/06spring_atran.pdf
The July 2005 London and Sinai bombings, a second round of bombings at tourist destinations in Bali in October, coordinated hotel bombings in Jordan in November, the arrival of suicide bombings in Bangladesh in December, a record year of attacks in Afghanistan, and daily bombings in Iraq have spurred renewed interest in suicide terrorism, with recent analyses stressing the strategic logic, organizational structure, and rational calculation involved.
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The rationale of suicide terrorism
http://www.risq.org/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=367
This article outlines the rationale behind suicide terrorism. Contrary to being deranged or crazy, many suicide terrorists have above average education and come from middle class families. In fact, most are normal and sane. So whilst denigrating them as lunatics or cowards might be viscerally satisfying, it does little to broaden our understanding of the phenomena and thus handicaps our ability to deal with the problem.
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Mishandling Suicide Terrorism
http://www.twq.com/04summer/docs/04summer_atran.pdf
The United States, Israel, Russia, and other nations on the frontline in the war on terrorism need to realize that military and counterinsurgency actions are tactical, not strategic, responses to suicide terrorism—the most politically destabilizing and psychologically devastating form of terrorism. When these nations back oppressive and unpopular governments (even those deemed “partners in the war on terror”), this only generates popular resentment and support for terrorism against those governments as well as their backers. To attract potential recruits away from jihadist martyrdom— suicide terrorism’s most virulent strain—and to dry up its popular support requires addressing basic grievances before a downward spiral sets in, where core meaning in life is sought and found in religious networks that sanctify vengeance at any cost against stronger powers, even if it kills the avenger.
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IPCS Program on suicide terrorism
http://www.suicideterrorism.org/
The IPCS Institute conducts independent research on conventional and non-conventional security issues in the region and shares its findings with policy makers and the public. It provides a forum for discussion with the strategic community on strategic issues and strives to explore alternatives. Moreover, it works towards building capacity among young scholars for greater refinement of their analyses of South Asian security.
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Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism
http://www.interdisciplines.org/terrorism/papers/1
Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopathology and are as educated and economically well-off as surrounding populations. A first line of defense is to get the communities from which suicide attackers stem to stop the attacks by learning how to minimize the receptivity of mostly ordinary people to recruiting organizations.
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The Scourge of Suicide Terrorism
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/175
Suicide missions are by no means peculiar to the Middle East. The medieval Cathars of southern France and northern Italy "looked favorably on suicide, an attitude which made the more fervent of them impervious to persecution."
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF SUICIDE TERRORISM
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp496.htm
Attempts to represent the suicide bomber as primarily motivated by psychological or sociological (as opposed to political or nationalistic) variables are simply not supported by the evidence. While suicide in the traditional clinical sense is indeed related to an individual's psychological state at the time of the act, the acts of Palestinian terror organizations, as the acts of other politically motivated groups in recent history, in no way relate to individual clinical psychopathology or conventional suicide.
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Suicide Terrorism and Democracy; What We’ve Learned Since 9/11
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa582.pdf
To put today’s suicide terrorism into perspective, it is helpful to look more systematically at the global patterns of suicide terrorism since 1980 and to focus specifically on the case of al-Qaeda. It is further helpful to briefly address suicide terrorism in Iraq. The available data on suicide attacks through the
end of 2005, combined with the previous information on the sources of suicide terrorism, provides a solid foundation for developing a new strategy for the United States to mitigate the danger we face.
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Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers
http://www.missionislam.com/conissues/palestine.htm
A few weeks ago I said that the struggle of Palestinians today is how not to become a bomb and that the amazing thing is not the occurrence of the suicide bombing, rather the rarity of them. The BBC interviewer appeared to understand. I was shocked because it is our understanding that the world out there will never understand. And who on earth in their right mind would understand terror and the killing of innocent people? Why do Palestinians kill themselves and Israelis in such an horrific way at the bus stop or in a crowded market? Do you really care to know? Well, let me try and explain.
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The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf
To advance our understanding of this growing phenomenon, this study collects the universe of suicide terrorist attacks worldwide from 1980 to 2001, 187 in all. In contrast to the existing explanations, this study shows that suicide terrorism follows a strategic logic, one specifically designed to coerce modern liberal democracies to make significant territorial concessions.
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What makes suicide bombers tick?
http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/security/articles/sec_0049.htm
What brings a young Palestinian man to detonate himself amidst a crowd of teenagers? Is it a religious upbringing with promises of paradise in reward for acts of martyrdom? Is it the parental support he receives for his convictions? Is it brainwashing, or rather encouragement from a Palestinian society with no other means of fighting back against oppression and humiliation?
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