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Mob Rule
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Jake Jacobs
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Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear)
weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and
media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11.
This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's efforts to
acquire a CBRN weapon capability, and the evolution of the al Qaeda
leadership's approach to actually using CBRN weapons, set against
the context of the politicisation of the threat of CBRN terrorism
in US security debates. Ben Cole explores how the inherently
political nature of terrorist CBRN threats has helped to shape al
Qaeda's approach to CBRN weapons, and shows how the heightened
political sensitivities surrounding the threat have enabled some
governments to manipulate it in order to generate domestic and
international support for controversial policies, particularly the
2003 invasion of Iraq. He assesses the relative success of the al
Qaeda leadership's political approach to CBRN weapons, together
with the relative success of efforts by the US, UK and Russian
governments to exploit the al Qaeda CBRN threat for their wider
political purposes. Shedding new light on al Qaeda's tactics and
strategy, this book will be essential reading for scholars of
terrorism and extremism studies.
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Breathe Again
(Paperback)
Trena D. Stephenson; Foreword by Yolanda Powell
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Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion
sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some
religions inspire hatred from others? This book shows how scholarly
studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can
shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is
divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of
prejudice and violence; historical developments of antisemitism,
Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western antisemitism and
Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic,
Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus
section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories
of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and
antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide
which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both
Western antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today,
alongside global studies of Islamic antisemitism and Hindu and
Buddhist Islamophobia - Integrates discussion of race and
racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and antisemitic prejudice
in relation to their framing in religious discourses. - Accessible
for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook
for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel
synthesis and theories. The book focuses on antisemitism and
Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of
prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist
traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA,
South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common
patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context.
Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the
historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this
hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the
strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this
hatred.
In Resilient Communities, Jana Krause focuses on civilian agency
and mobilization 'from below' and explains violence and
non-violence in communal wars. Drawing on extensive field research
on ethno-religious conflicts in Ambon/Maluku Province in eastern
Indonesia and Jos/Plateau State in central Nigeria, this book shows
how civilians responded to local conflict dynamics very
differently, evading, supporting, or collectively resisting armed
groups. Combining evidence collected from more than 200 interviews
with residents, community leaders, and former fighters, local
scholarly work (in Indonesian), and local newspaper-based event
data analysis, this book explains civilian mobilization, militia
formation, and conflict escalation. The book's comparison of
vulnerable mixed communities and (un)successful prevention efforts
demonstrates how under courageous leadership resilient communities
can emerge that adapt to changing conflict zones and collectively
prevent killings. By developing the concepts of communal war and
social resilience, Krause extends our understanding of local
violence, (non-)escalation, and implications for prevention.
It seems that people often have trouble getting along together.
Families argue, neighbors come to blows, countries lob weapons at
each other. Is this the way it has to be? Anthropologists,
sociologists, psychologists and others say it is. Having observed a
long history of man's quarrelsome behavior, they claim that man has
animal instincts, or that he is antisocial and violent by his very
nature. In truth, man is rather peaceful. But he can be driven,
individually and collectively, to hatred and violence. In
researching the causes of violence, L. Ron Hubbard unearthed a
fundamental and natural law of human relations which explains why
conflicts between people are so often difficult to remedy. And he
provided an immensely valuable tool that enables one to resolve any
conflict, be it between neighbors, co-workers or even countries. In
this chapter, you will discover how to help others resolve their
differences and restore peaceable relations. Peace and harmony
between men can be more than just a dream. Widespread application
of this law will make it a reality.
Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early 1930s, Nelly
Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the
Holocaust. This narrative of her life's journey describes the
survival of Nelly, her mother and her older sister. With help from
family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the
Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers
where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously,
they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in
fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following
the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. After the end of the war,
Nelly's musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and
then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed
her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy
in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full
concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for
piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly
Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the
application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches
in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly
gives talks about her Holocaust experience. This unique memoir is
testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of
the human condition when faced with adversity.
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