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Ethics and Terrorism
Max Taylor, John Horgan
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This book provides a unique insight into the ethical issues and
dilemmas facing practitioners and researchers of terrorism and
counterterrorism. Ethics play a central if, largely, unrecognised
role in most, if not all, issues relevant to terrorism and
political violence. These are often most noticeable regarding
counterterrorism controversies, while often virtually absent from
discussions about academic research practice. At a minimum, ethical
issues as they relate to terrorism have rarely been explicitly
addressed in a direct or comprehensive manner. The chapters in this
edited volume draws on the experience of both practitioners and
researchers to explore how a regard to ethical issues might
influence and determine research and practice in counter terrorism,
and in our understanding of terrorism. Ethics and Terrorism
recognizes that there are conflicting and often irreconcilable
perspectives from which to view terrorism and terrorism research.
In calling for greater attention to these issues, the goal is not
to resolve problems, but to explore and clarify the assumptions and
dilemmas that underpin our understanding of the personal,
institutional and societal ethical boundaries and constraints
around terrorism and responses to it. This book will be of value to
practitioners and researchers, and to policy makers and the broader
interested community. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political
Violence.
This book provides a unique insight into the ethical issues and
dilemmas facing practitioners and researchers of terrorism and
counterterrorism. Ethics play a central if, largely, unrecognised
role in most, if not all, issues relevant to terrorism and
political violence. These are often most noticeable regarding
counterterrorism controversies, while often virtually absent from
discussions about academic research practice. At a minimum, ethical
issues as they relate to terrorism have rarely been explicitly
addressed in a direct or comprehensive manner. The chapters in this
edited volume draws on the experience of both practitioners and
researchers to explore how a regard to ethical issues might
influence and determine research and practice in counter terrorism,
and in our understanding of terrorism. Ethics and Terrorism
recognizes that there are conflicting and often irreconcilable
perspectives from which to view terrorism and terrorism research.
In calling for greater attention to these issues, the goal is not
to resolve problems, but to explore and clarify the assumptions and
dilemmas that underpin our understanding of the personal,
institutional and societal ethical boundaries and constraints
around terrorism and responses to it. This book will be of value to
practitioners and researchers, and to policy makers and the broader
interested community. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political
Violence.
Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the
years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29
people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a
major security threat to a region that has been denied peace,
stability, and prosperity for too long. Those responsible have many
names. They are breakaways, splinter factions, spoilers, and
"residual" terrorists. The Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and Oglaigh na
hEireann are only some of the groups now responsible for a growing
wave of bombings, shootings, threats, and intimidation across
Northern Ireland. Commonly known as "the dissidents," these are the
rejectionists for whom there seems to be no negotiated settlement,
no peace deal, no consensus solution that will convince them to
accept the will of the majority of the people on the island of
Ireland. Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's
Dissident Terrorists presents the results of meticulous research
conducted by the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at
the Pennsylvania State University. Since 2007, John Horgan,
Director of the center, has led a research project to monitor the
activities of Ireland's new terrorists. Drawing on one of the
largest open-source militant databases ever assembled, Divided We
Stand describes the activities, histories, motivations, psychology,
and strategy of the small, dynamic, and rapidly evolving splinter
groups that continue to erode peace, stability, and normalization
in Northern Ireland.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects
of deradicalization theories, programs and methods. It analyzes the
practical and theoretical aspects of deradicalization programs and
the methods being employed to bring extremists and terrorist back
to a non-violent life. The book includes in-depth case studies on
programs and former extremists, including interviews with former
German neo-Nazis and families of Jihadists who have received
deradicalization counselling. Using a coherent theory of
radicalization and deradicalization, it integrates existing
programs into a typology and methodology regarding the effects and
concepts behind deradicalization. In addition, a current state of
the art assessment of deradicalization programs around the world
provides a collection of programs and landscapes worldwide. It
thereby functions as a unique guide for practitioners and
policymakers in need of evaluation or construction of such
programs, as well as a resource pool for academics interested in
research about deradicalization programs and processes. The major
aim of this book is to consolidate the existing scholarship on
deradicalization and to move the field forward by proposing a
coherent theory of deradicalization, including ways to measure
effectiveness, standard methods and procedures, different actors of
such programs and cooperation on national and international level.
In essence, this work enables the reader to identify how, when and
why deradicalization programs work, how they can be built and
structured, and to identify their limitations. This book will be of
interest to students of radicalisation, counter-terrorism, radical
Islam, criminology, security studies and IR.
This volume maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the
foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all
principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in
Northern Ireland, the author shows how Irish history and politics
have shaped the media of Ireland and, in turn, have been shaped by
them. Beginning in a country ravaged by civil war, it traces the
complexities of wartime censorship and details the history of media
technology, from the development of radio to the inauguration of
television in the 1950s and 1960s. It covers the birth, development
and - sometimes - the death of major Irish media during this
period, examining the reasons for failure and success, and
government attempts to regulate and respond to change. Finally, it
addresses questions of media globalization, ownership and control,
and looks at issues of key significance for the future. It aims to
demonstrates why, in a country whose political divisions and
economic development have given it a place on the world stage out
of all proportion to its size, the media have been and remain key
players in Irish history.
Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in
Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the
present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic,
in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, John Horgan shows how
Irish history and politics have shaped the media of Ireland and, in
turn, have been shaped by them.
Beginning in a country ravaged by civil war, it traces the
complexities of wartime censorship and details the history of media
technology, from the development of radio to the inauguration of
television in the 1950s and 1960s. It covers the birth, development
and - sometimes - the death of major Irish media during this
period, examining the reasons for failure and success, and
government attempts to regulate and respond to change. Finally, it
addresses questions of media globalisation, ownership and control,
and looks at issues of key significance for the future.
Horgan demonstrates why, in a country whose political divisions and
economic development have given it a place on the world stage out
of all proportion to its size, the media have been and remain key
players in Irish history.
These papers are from a meeting at University College Cork,
Ireland, at which terrorism experts from academia and law
enforcement presented and dicussed their views on future
developments in terrorism. This book brings together papers
presented at the meeting and offers a series of challenging, and at
times controversial, perspectives on the unfolding nature of
terrorism.
These papers are from a meeting at University College Cork,
Ireland, at which terrorism experts from academia and law
enforcement presented and dicussed their views on future
developments in terrorism. This book brings together papers
presented at the meeting and offers a series of challenging, and at
times controversial, perspectives on the unfolding nature of
terrorism.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects
of deradicalization theories, programs and methods. It analyzes the
practical and theoretical aspects of deradicalization programs and
the methods being employed to bring extremists and terrorist back
to a non-violent life. The book includes in-depth case studies on
programs and former extremists, including interviews with former
German neo-Nazis and families of Jihadists who have received
deradicalization counselling. Using a coherent theory of
radicalization and deradicalization, it integrates existing
programs into a typology and methodology regarding the effects and
concepts behind deradicalization. In addition, a current state of
the art assessment of deradicalization programs around the world
provides a collection of programs and landscapes worldwide. It
thereby functions as a unique guide for practitioners and
policymakers in need of evaluation or construction of such
programs, as well as a resource pool for academics interested in
research about deradicalization programs and processes. The major
aim of this book is to consolidate the existing scholarship on
deradicalization and to move the field forward by proposing a
coherent theory of deradicalization, including ways to measure
effectiveness, standard methods and procedures, different actors of
such programs and cooperation on national and international level.
In essence, this work enables the reader to identify how, when and
why deradicalization programs work, how they can be built and
structured, and to identify their limitations. This book will be of
interest to students of radicalisation, counter-terrorism, radical
Islam, criminology, security studies and IR.
"Mapping Irish Media" offers up-to-date research and analysis of
the Irish media by Ireland's leading experts in the field. The book
is sponsored by the School of Communications at Dublin City
University and is specially intended as a much-needed textbook for
the fast growing numbers of media studies students in Ireland. It
is highly readable and also suitable for those with a general
interest in the subject. The book focuses on a wide range of media
including the more traditional broadcast and print media
(newspapers, radio, and television and film), and also engages with
newer media such as the internet and DVD, and newer media genres
such as reality TV. Although the book is traditionally structured
in sections on production, texts and audiences, the editors'
intention has been to raise issues which cross-cut these different
aspects. The contributors present a range of theoretical
approaches, provide comparisons with the media in other countries,
and consider in particular the effect of globalisation and
increasing consumer choice.
In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of
truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our
place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as
Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he
demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have
been answered, as science bumps up against fundamental limits. The
world cannot give us a "theory of everything," and modern endeavors
such as string theory are "ironic" and "theological" in nature, not
scientific, because they are impossible to confirm. Horgan's
argument was controversial in 1996, and it remains so today, still
firing up debates in labs and on the internet, not least because-as
Horgan details in a lengthy new introduction-ironic science is more
prevalent than ever. Still, while Horgan offers his critique,
grounded in the thinking of the world's leading researchers, he
offers homage, too. If science is ending, he maintains, it is only
because it has done its work so well.
In Rational Mysticism, acclaimed journalist John Horgan embarks on
an adventure of discovery, investigating the ways in which
scientists, theologians, and philosophers are attempting to
formulate an empirical explanation of spiritual enlightenment.
Horgan visits and interviews a fascinating Who's Who of experts,
including theologian Huston Smith; Andrew Newberg, explorer of the
brain's "God module"; Ken Wilber, a transpersonal psychologist and
Buddhist; psychedelic pharmacologist Alexander Shulgin;
Oxford-educated psychologist and Zen practitioner Susan Blackmore;
and postmodern shaman Terence McKenna. Horgan also explores the
effects of reputed enlightenment-inducing techniques such as
fasting, meditation, prayer, sensory deprivation, and drug trips.
In his lively and thought-provoking inquiry, Horgan finds
surprising connections among seemingly disparate disciplines, not
the least of which is a shared awe of the nature of the universe.
GRAY MATTER UNDER INVESTIGATION In his acclaimed book The End of Science, John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits of knowledge in a wide range of sciences. Now in The Undiscovered Mind he focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all -- the effort to understand the human mind.
Horgan takes us inside laboratories, hospitals, and universities to meet neuro-scientists, Freudian analysts, electroshock therapists, behavioral geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, artificial intelligence engineers, and philosophers of consciousness. He looks into the persistent explanatory gap between mind and body that Socrates pondered and shows that it has not been bridged. He investigates what he calls the "Humpty Dumpty dilemma," the fact that neuroscientists can break the brain and mind into pieces but cannot put the pieces back together again. He presents evidence that the placebo effect is the primary ingredient of psychotherapy, Prozac, and other treatments for mental disorders. As Horgan shows, the mystery of human consciousness, of why and how we think, remains so impregnable that to expect the attempts of scientific method and technology to penetrate it anytime soon is absurd.
Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause
and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal
truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups. Mia
Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that
allows and even encourages the use of children to conduct terrorist
activities. They provide readers with the who, what, when, why, and
how of this increasingly concerning situation, illuminating a
phenomenon that to most of us seems abhorrent. And yet, they argue,
for terrorist groups the use of children carries many benefits.
Children possess skills that adults lack. They often bring
innovation and creativity. Children are, in fact, a superb
demographic from which to recruit if you are a terrorist. Small
Arms answers questions about recruitment strategies and tactics,
determines what makes a child terrorist and what makes him or her
different from an adult one, and charts the ways in which
organizations use them. The unconventional focus on child and youth
militants allows the authors to, in essence, give us a biography of
the child terrorist and the organizations that use them. We are
taken inside the mind of the adult and the child to witness that
which perhaps most scares us.
A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger,
divorced father, thinker, and yearner. What would it feel like to
wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a
living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of
Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay
Attention, a stream-of-consciousness account of a day in the life
of his alter ego, Eamon Toole--a blogger, college professor, and
divorced father. This work of fact-based fiction, or "faction,"
follows Toole as he wakes up in his rented apartment in upstate New
York, meditates with the mantra "Duh," commutes via train and
subway to an engineering school in New Jersey, teaches a William
James essay on consciousness to freshmen, squabbles about Thomas
Kuhn with colleagues over lunch, takes a ferry to Manhattan and
spends the evening with his bossy, Tarot-reading girlfriend, Emily,
on whom he plans to spring a big question. Throughout the day,
Toole struggles to be rational while buffeted by fears and
yearnings. Thoughts of sex and death keep intruding on his
ruminations over quantum spookiness, the neural code, the
Singularity and free will. Pay Attention is a profane, profound
meditation on the entanglements of our inner and outer worlds and
the elusiveness of truth.
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