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Viewing Muslims as ‘other’ just makes the problem worse – but research has some solutions.
These attacks do not involve direct contact with terrorists in the Middle East. Instead, individuals already living in the US are learning the “how-tos” of jihad online.
Given the persistent risk of terrorist attacks and large-scale accidents, it’s more critical than ever for EMTs, police, firefighters and others to learn from the past.
It is difficult not to see the film as a vanity project for Wahlberg.
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.
Because Muslim Americans are an extreme ‘outgroup,’ they’re all the more vulnerable to discrimination, especially in the wake of negative media coverage.
Family members share both genetics and environment to a greater extent than people in general. And this has implications for counterterrorism approaches.
All of Boston was traumatized by the attacks on the Boston Marathon in 2013. A legal scholar suggests that this meant the man accused of the bombing could not receive a fair trial here.
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now faces the death penalty for his actions. A panel of scholars weighs in on the jury’s decision.
Not everyone has the same reaction to trauma, or recovers in the same way, or in a set time frame.
The case seemed to end on the first day of the trial when the lawyer for the accused declared Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did plant one of the bombs. So what is really at stake here?
Those who experience a terrorist attack firsthand are prone to suffer from acute stress. That much is obvious. But does living that experience repeatedly through the media’s coverage of the event cause…
Popular culture magazine Rolling Stone has released the cover of its August 1 print edition on the internet. Most of the headlines promise the familiar mix of pop culture and news: a review of Jay-Z’s…
Prince Charming and the boy accused of the Boston bombings may not seem to have much in common. But thousands of teenage American girls appear to be falling in love with 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev…
There are strong parallels to be drawn between last week’s Woolwich murder and the Boston bombings in April, and not just because of the terrorism connection. The subsequent shooting and hospitalisation…
While the full details of the awful events in Woolwich remain unclear, the attack has already revived heated debates about the risk of terror at home. When building a profile of someone who allegedly commits…
Last week’s Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt that followed showed all too starkly the challenges government agencies faced as they responded to the attack and sought to identify the perpetrators…
Local commentators have variously described reactions to the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 183 others, as “restrained”, “refreshingly honest” and wholly different to what…
Citizen sleuths were out in numbers (or holed up inside, frantically tweeting) after last week’s Boston Marathon bombings. Alongside the drip-drip from mainstream media and the trickle of information from…
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Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Acute Care Research Unit, Affiliated Adjunct and Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation, University of Michigan
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Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University
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Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
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Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan
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Research Professor of Law, Suffolk University
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Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney; Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University
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Foundation Director, Global Terrorism Research Centre, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
