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The rhetoric and policy focus of the Howard government in the wake of the Tampa crisis and the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 changed dramatically – and the effects are still being felt today.
A scholar who has visited Guantanamo 11 times to observe legal proceedings in the 9/11 terrorism case explains why the conflict continues to delay the case going to trial.
After 20 years that cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, America’s engagement in the Middle East appears to be over. So what happens now?
The World Trade Center buildings were built to withstand wind loads more than 30 times the aircrafts’ weight.
The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is an opportunity for teachers to focus less on recreating the day and more on what students can learn from it, two curriculum experts argue.
Ancient Athenians and Romans also let shared mass tragedies propel justifications for going to war – even when it wasn’t clear what that violence would solve.
The act of killing in combat is associated with heightened risks of PTSD and suicide. A scholar interviewed 30 veterans about their common experiences.
Following the completion of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Neta Crawford, the co-director of the Costs of War Project, reflects on 7,268 days of American involvement in the conflict.
Comments made during class discussions about 9/11 often put Muslim students on edge, according to a researcher who interviewed 55 Muslim students in and around the nation’s capital.
As President Joe Biden said on announcing the US troop withdrawal by September, ‘our reasons for remaining in Afghanistan have become increasingly unclear’.
A large voter turnout among Muslim Americans may be enough to turn some of the swing states to the Democratic candidate in the 2020 election.
The Sept. 11 bombings killed almost 3,000 Americans. But if you exclude that unique event for the last two decades of terrorist activity, a different picture of US vulnerability appears.
An unprecedented onslaught from the US hasn’t destroyed the terrorist organization. What is the secret of its resilience?
Research on more than 50 government investigations reveals how partisanship can get in the way of finding answers we all agree on.
If police officers are sent to museums to train observational skills, shouldn’t literary texts be used to teach empathy?
The effects of terrorism on businesses are wide ranging but some are learning how to adapt to risk and use it to their competitive advantage.
We may feel like flashbulb memories of dramatic events are more accurate than ordinary memories, but are they really? An experiment begun Sept. 12, 2001 sheds light.
Even indirect exposure to the terrorist attacks of September 11 has left profound and deep impact on those too young to remember a world before that.
Those involved with the monumental task faced many challenges as they balanced the unquestionable priority of remembrance with the commercial task of recreating an economically vibrant downtown.
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Professor. Dean, New Business Acceleration, Federation University Australia
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Professor, Psychology, Lafayette College
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Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts Dean, Honors College, UMass Boston
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Seattle University
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Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, Columbia University
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Professor of Sociology, Director of Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Director, Disaster Research Center and Professor, Public Policy & Administration, University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
