Islamic Terrorism 101: Required Reading

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noach Milgram
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Terrorism

Environmental Change, Migration, and Conflict in Africa: A Critical Examination of the Interconnections

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Lake Chad ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
Conflict In Africa ◽  
Intervening Variables ◽  
Causal Variable

How should we understand the interconnections between environmental change, migration, and conflict in Africa? Should the rise of Islamic terrorism and Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria be directly linked to the drying of Lake Chad? Should cattle raiding in Kenya be seen as a result of drought across East Africa? Does the constrained migration of the pastoral Tuareg in the Sahel causally connect to desertification and their rebellion against governmental forces? Despite the compelling and often persuasive case for directly connecting environmental change to migration and conflict, there is a growing agreement in both the environment-migration and climate-conflict spheres that intervening variables determine if and how environmental change causes population movements and political violence. This article presents a case for migration as an intermediary and bidirectional causal variable. The article argues that close attention needs to be paid to local-level manifestations of conflict and (mal)adaptive forms of migration to understand the potential propensity of environmental change to lead to conflict in Africa.

Islamic terrorism and the United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 2171-2174
Author(s):  
Rajiv Nayan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Islamic Terrorism

THE ISSUE OF THE PANKIS VALLEY IN RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA IN THE CHECHEN WARS

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
R.B. Absattarov ◽  
◽  
I.A. Rau ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
Chechen Wars

The article examines the problem of the Pankis Valley in relations between Russia and Georgia in the Chechen wars, which has not yet been studied in socio-political science. The article discusses in more detail the issues of the peculiarities of the Pankis Valley and its population, and its ties with Chechnya, Georgia's support for Chechen militants, wide political representation, informational opportunities and media of Chechens in Georgia, Chechnya's rapprochement with Georgia and international Islamic terrorism, echo in the Pankis valley and etc. At the same time, the article also pays attention to debatable, controversial, conflicting issues.

Tackling Islamic Terrorism and Radicalism in Indonesia by Increasing the Sense of Humanity and Friendship

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-114
Author(s):  
Idhamsyah Eka Putra ◽  
Dimas Okto Danamasi ◽  
Any Rufaedah ◽  
Reisa Suci Arimbi ◽  
Sapto Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Good Deeds

In regard to the rise of Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism, this paper aims to (1) explore the ways in changing jihadists' mind and behavior; that is, by guiding them away from “war situation” and by persuading them to conduct good deeds and to relate Islam to daily life such as by giving sermons on peace or helping others. To the convicted terrorists, the authors present the project findings showing that developing dialogs about humanity and peace could increase the level of cognitive complexity through which it can lead them to be more positive to others. (2) The authors also discuss religious fundamentalism and how to deal with it. Two studies revealed that although eliminating religious fundamentalism is almost not possible, there are still ways to lead them to have positive perceptions toward other religious groups. One of them is to make the fundamentalists believe that Muslims and Islam perceive non-Muslims in a positive way, instead of in a negative way.

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