Terrorism
232 books
Most wars, insurgencies, and terrorist attacks take place in the Muslim World. This is not a coincidence; understanding this phenomenon in its political and psychosocial perspectives is vital. An attempt has been made in this book to analyze these observable facts in a comprehensive, academic manner as to why such incidents are more prevalent in Muslim countries. It is crucial to understand the dynamics, the frustrations and the political systems in the Muslim ...
The book unravels the truth behind the emergence of Taliban in Punjab with one chapter each on the eight divisions: Lahore, Bhawalpur, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sargodha and Rawalpindi of Punjab province. The book gives a detailed account of structure of radical as well as terrorist organisations, infighting among different factions and related activities. The book quotes an intelligence agency to assert that there are some 150,000 ...
Human rights are relevant to terrorism as concerns both its victims and its perpetrators. The concept of human rights was first expressed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which established recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. The innocent victims of terrorism suffer an attack on their most basic right to live in peace and security. The suspected perpetrators of attacks also have rights, ...
Approaching the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, there is a growing sense among Counterterrorism analysts from the policy community and academia that Al-Qaeda has substantially weakened in the last decade and is destined to lose the battle against its enemies, and in particular the United States. Indeed, signs that Al-Qaeda is flagging are ample and include its loss of Osama bin Laden and important operational leader; defeat or near defeat of various Al ...
Terrorism is on the minds of everyone in this nation today. It is also more prominent in the minds of people all over the world as well. Since the attacks on America in September of 2001 many people have wondered why terrorism is so intense that it would come to America. Many claim that the attacks on America are clear indicators that there is a powerful rise in terrorism. We forget, however, that terrorism is a reality that has been in existence since perhaps, ...
Since the partition of India in 1947, the history of the Indian subcontinent has been hostage to endless conflicts between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Over the last decade and more, the region has borne the brunt of terrorist violence perpetrated by fundamentalist Islamic groups which originated and thrived in Afghanistan as a counterforce to the large presence of Soviet troops in the 1980s. Jihadists from Pakistan, assisted by the newly formed Al Qaida, ...
This encyclopaedia cover the all the terrorist attacks from world over. In this process this books describes the changing face of terrorism, probing the new adversaries, new motivations, and new methods that have surfaced in recent years to challenge many of our most fundamental assumptions about terrorists and how they operate.
Our notion of terrorism as a form of limited violence has been shattered by the emergence of more lethal and less predictable terrorist ...
What it Means to be a Muslim in India Today?" is a Combined Report of Peoples Tribunal on the Atrocities Committed Against Minority In The Name Of Fighting Terrorism, 22-24 August 2008 at Hyderabad & National Meet on the Status of Muslims in Contemporary India, Delhi 3 to 5 Oct 2009 It is a compilation of real life stories. Stories of discrimination, stories of torture & abuse, stories of prejudices & hatred, stories of apathy, stories of ...
Terrorism is the Sudden and violent. Groups of men mostly from Middle Eastern countries gather together and train to attack innocent people around the world. Their only reason for attack is to make others pay for not being like them and believing in the same things that they do. Terrorists use weapons that they purchase are given by governments that support them or take from their enemies. Over the past centuries terrorists have committed many attacks on the ...
Religion means a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny and terrorism means the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain personal goals at whatever basis they may be. In the modern age, after the decline of ideas such as the divine right of kings and with the rise of nationalism, terrorism more often involved anarchism, nihilism and revolutionary politics, but since 1980 there ...
Cyber terrorism has imposed a devastating threat to military of different countries. This book is a brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyber space. Protecting the organization's infrastructure from cyber-based attacks that are designed to disrupt and/or destroy business operations is becoming increasingly important. This book will address cyber terrorism and other forms of terrorist activity, ...
Terrorism is the most dangerous and sinister threat to the international community today, and has been so for the last some years. In the manner of speaking , it is veritably an existential threat to the mankind. The most extensive, persistent and aggresive genre from Jihadist terrorism., which is already spread the world over, from Indonesia in the east to the united states in the west and Scandinavia in the north to Australia in the south.The book deals with ...
Terrorism is a kind of war, which is launched from hideouts by employing speed, surprise and indiscriminate violence. Assassinations, killing of innocent people including women and children, and invisibility, are at the heart of the strategy of the terrorists. It is an organized system of intimidation and coercion by use of violence that does not obey the rules of war to achieve political or religious ends. This book brings out the terrorist groups involved ...
Terrorism clearly has a very real and direct impact on human rights, with devastating consequences for the enjoyment of the right to life, liberty and physical integrity of victims. In addition to these individual costs, terrorism can destabilize governments, undermine civil society, jeopardize peace and security and threaten social and economic development. The measures adopted by states to counter terrorism have themselves often posed serious challenges to ...
Terrorist organizations have been able to market mass murder under hysteria’s banner of alleged martyrdom. But when it comes to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism in particular, there is much more to it than martyrdom. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Kobrin dismantles the psychological dynamics of suicide terrorism to help the reader gain a new perspective on one of the most destructive forces the world has witnessed to date.Until now, no one has ...
The ORF-Heritage Foundation Counter-Terrorism Dialogue, that took place in New Delhi on July 20-21, 2010, brought together top Indian experts led by Ambassador M. Rasgotra, President, ORF Centre for International Relations and a distinguished American delegation led by The Heritage Foundation's Vice President for Foreign and Defence Policy Studies, Dr. Kim Holmes, to exchange ideas for expanding US-India counter-terrorism cooperation.The main themes of the ...