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Counter-terrorism, ethics and technology : emerging challenges at the frontie…
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies…
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- 6
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- 9783030902216
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- XVI, 221p.; ill.
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- Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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- 363.325 COU h
Victimhood and acknowledgement : the other side of terrorism
How does terrorism affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history.
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- 9783110581508
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- 172p. : ill
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- 362.88 VIC v
Lives in peace research
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- xx; 508 PG; ill.
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- Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
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- 327.172072 LIV l
Targeted' Experiences Of Racism In NSW After September 11, 2001
Targeted researches experiences of racism in New South Wales after September 11, 2001. The monograph analyses data collected by the anti-racism hotline established by the Community Relations Commission For a Multicultural NSW (CRC). It details a significant increase in racially motivated violence and verbal abuse in NSW in the months following the US 2001 September 11 attacks and finds these in…
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Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist : A Multilevel Analysis of Involvement…
How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in November 2004 in Amsterdam, and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jiha…
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- 9789462986930
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- 287 p.
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- -
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- 363.3 BEC B
Veiled threats : representing 'the Muslim woman' in UK public policy discourses
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism.
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- 9781447325192
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- xiii, 218p.
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- 305.486970941 RAS v
Victims of political violence and terrorism : making up resilient survivors
This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma, recovery and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational fiel…
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- 9781003154020
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- xi, 274 p. : ill.
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- 362.889317 MCG v
Pirates of empire : colonisation and maritime violence in Southeast Asia
The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. Focusing on what was seen in the nineteenth century as the three most pirate-infested areas in the region - the Sulu Sea, the Strait of Malacca and Indochina - this comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colo…
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- 9781108594516
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- ix, 266p. : ill.
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- 364.164 AMI p
Science of societal safety : living at times of risks and disasters
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement …
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- 9789811327759
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- xv, 227p. : ill.
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- -
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- 363.348 SCI s
Computational conflict research
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis. Empirical cases range from migra…
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- 9783030293338
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- xviii, 264p. : ill
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- 300.00285 COM c
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