Prevention of Terrorism with a Regulatory Model of Violent-Based Extremism that Leads to Terrorism

The Broadening Remit of UK Counter-Terrorism - from Terrorism to ‘Radicalization’ to ‘Extremism’: C-T Imperative or Loss of Focus?

This article argues that the discourses of radicalization and, more lately, of extremism have served to confuse the remit of counter-terrorism. Indeed, it appears that ‘terrorism’, ‘radicalization’ and ‘extremism’ have increasingly become merged into a single discursive framework, one consequence of which has been to blur the important distinction between ‘extremism’ of thought and ‘extremism’ ...

Women ’ s participation in terrorism , conflict and violent extremism : Gender equality or pure pragmatism ?

Modern warfare disproportionally affects the lives of women and girls. Females experience armed conflict differently to men due to the gendered division of roles and responsibilities. Historically, direct combat involved participation exclusively by men, with civilians, comprising mainly of women and children, suffering due to displacement and direct targeting. As a result, women are frequently...

Terrorism: causes and prevention.

Injury prevention and terrorism.

I am simply not smart enough to be able to add anything sensible or profound to what so many others have written on this topic. After 9/11 I offered some thoughts on the immense challenge that preventing terrorist acts entails. No one wrote to agree or disagree so I concluded that either my suggestions were too controversial or too mundane. On this occasion, roughly one month after the London b...

A Dynamical Model of Terrorism

This paper develops a dynamical model of terrorism. We consider the population in a given region as being made up of three primary components: terrorists, those susceptible to both terrorist and pacifist propaganda, and nonsusceptibles, or pacifists. The dynamical behavior of these three populations is studied using a model that incorporates the effects of both direct military/police interventi...