Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Psychosocial Dynamics

by Updesh Kumar (Editor), Manas K. Mandal (Editor)

The book is a comprehensive compilation of articles by experts in the field of suicide terrorism from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on suicide missions. It provides an insightful perspective on suicide terror as a phenomenon and as a process, and suggests psychosocial pathways for understanding the enigma that suicide terror poses.

Understanding Suicide Terrorism delves upon the enigmatic issue of suicide terrorism. The book is an interdisciplinary multi-faceted venture that brings together scholarly work from across the world, across cultures and societies on the issue of suicide terror. The common thread weaving through all the articles is the notion of suicide terror as a complex phenomenon that defies easy explanation, prediction or controllability. Informed by theoretical stances of not only psychological sciences, but other social sciences like political science, criminology, military and sociology the book is an insightful reading.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2014

Reviews

[عمر الحمادي · Rating 4 out of 5]

دراسات نفسية مهمة لفهم شخصية المتطرف والإرهابي الذي لا يعاني من أمراض نفسية لقدر معاناته من فصام مع الواقع.

[Abdullah · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب رائع حول دراسات الانتحاريين مهم لكل مختص او غير مختص