Fighting Suicide Bombing
A Worldwide Campaign for Life
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2006
320 pages
978-1-57356-638-4 (ISBN)
Description
How does one effectively fight suicide bombers? What threat do they hold for Western society? How do people who love peace reconcile the need for war? Noted genocide expert Israel W. Charny addresses these questions in this highly personal description of suicide bombings and terror as the opening salvos of a Third World War. Charny first seeks to understand what makes suicide bombers tick, as well as the culture from which they emerge. Taking this understanding of what he calls human evil, he then proposes a hawkish campaign that ultimately emphasizes peace rather than irrational fear.
By deeming suicide bombing and terrorism as necessary subjects in the study of psychology, Charny presents yet another weapon in the war against terrorism-a war that he believes will only escalate without drastic action. Ultimately, he calls for a worldwide campaign for life led by religious and secular leaders across the globe. He concludes the book with a vignette from Islamic culture that speaks nobly to furthering peace and life.
By deeming suicide bombing and terrorism as necessary subjects in the study of psychology, Charny presents yet another weapon in the war against terrorism-a war that he believes will only escalate without drastic action. Ultimately, he calls for a worldwide campaign for life led by religious and secular leaders across the globe. He concludes the book with a vignette from Islamic culture that speaks nobly to furthering peace and life.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-1-57356-638-4 (9781573566384)
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11/2006
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Person
I. W. Charny is a renowned psychologist, and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide, (ABC-Clio). He is the executive director of the Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, and Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Content
Selected worldwide case incidents
ix
Preface: This may be a politically incorrect books, but it is unshakable in supporting life for all people
xiii
Acknowledgments
xxvii
1. How can they do it?
1
2. Suicide bombing and its growing place in the world today
11
3. Contradictory image meanings of suicide bombings
26
4. Are suicide bombers a proper subject of psychology?
55
5. The ultimate existential meaning of suicide bombings: The killing of human life
79
6. Facing the dangerous future of civilization honestly
100
7. Is it right to fear and condemn all Muslims? (Of course not!)
127
8. Promoting a new worldwide constituency for human life and making suicide bombing unattractive and unacceptable
148
9. A Proposal for a "Worldwide Campaign for Life" by the leaders of many religions and other world leaders and heroes
166
Afterword: Inshallah
190
Representative Suicide Bombings around the World and a Conclusion: Suicide Bombing Is a Redefinition of the Legitimacy of Virtually All Killing
193
Notes
215
Bibliography
257
Index
269
ix
Preface: This may be a politically incorrect books, but it is unshakable in supporting life for all people
xiii
Acknowledgments
xxvii
1. How can they do it?
1
2. Suicide bombing and its growing place in the world today
11
3. Contradictory image meanings of suicide bombings
26
4. Are suicide bombers a proper subject of psychology?
55
5. The ultimate existential meaning of suicide bombings: The killing of human life
79
6. Facing the dangerous future of civilization honestly
100
7. Is it right to fear and condemn all Muslims? (Of course not!)
127
8. Promoting a new worldwide constituency for human life and making suicide bombing unattractive and unacceptable
148
9. A Proposal for a "Worldwide Campaign for Life" by the leaders of many religions and other world leaders and heroes
166
Afterword: Inshallah
190
Representative Suicide Bombings around the World and a Conclusion: Suicide Bombing Is a Redefinition of the Legitimacy of Virtually All Killing
193
Notes
215
Bibliography
257
Index
269
