Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W.

doi:10.1007/s11127-016-0310-2

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“…A rapidly expanding literature across both economics and political science has made considerable progress in our understanding of the determinants of terrorism as well as its socio-economic consequences. For instance, with respect to the drivers of terrorist activity, researchers have pointed to the roles of regime type (Gaibulloev et al 2017), education levels (Brockhoff et al 2015), ethnic or religious divisions (Gleditsch and Polo 2016;Filote et al 2016), oil revenues (Piazza 2016), and banking crises (Gries and Meierrieks 2013). Interestingly, a review of this literature by Krieger and Meierrieks (2011) highlights that institutional factors generally appear to be more important than economic ones for explaining the emergence of (transnational) terrorism.…”

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Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust

Geys

Qari

2017

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How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual 'Society Opinion Media' survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish public opinion. Our main contribution is that we draw explicit attention to the link between terrorist events and individuals' social trust. While we identify a strong effect on individuals' terrorism concerns, any observed effects with respect to generalized and neighborhood trust appear to be short-lived, thus suggesting that isolated terrorist events have only limited, transitory effects on established social attitudes.

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Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust

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Qari

2017

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“…It should be recognized that the connection between religion and suicidal terrorist acts is not always supported by science and statistics. Scientists note that from 1981 to 2010, the number of suicidal terrorist acts in 35 countries of the world was 2,233; while more than 800 of them (36 %) were committed for religious reasons [16]. It is indicated that suicidal terrorist acts are often committed in order to prevent possible exit from suicidal sects and to punish the guilty [17], or for other reasons [18,19].…”

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Criminological and socio-psychological research of suicidal terrorism in the postmodern era

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The article examines the criminological and socio-psychological characteristics of suicidal terrorism as a type of political violence at the present stage. The use of the historical method of scientific research allows concluding that although suicidal terrorism manifests itself in different historical epochs, only since the second half of the 20th century, suicidal terrorism has become a widely used violent practice. The analysis of the positions on this topic allows defining suicidal terrorism as a violent practice aimed at causing maximum damage to the population and (or) civilian items, as well as state authorities, institutions, or international organizations to intimidate the population and influence official authorities, which is accompanied by a conscious refusal of the perpetrator to save his/her life. At the same time, suicidal terrorism itself is represented in two forms: classic suicidal terrorism and high-probability suicidal terrorism. Based on the analysis of statistical data on the spread of suicidal terrorism in the world, a sharp trend in the growth of this type of terrorism in the 21st century is determined, as well as correlation changes in the specific coefficient of harm caused depending on the tactics of suicidal terrorism. Two key approaches to understanding the causes of suicidal terrorism are considered. As to the first approach, suicidal terrorism is explained from the perspective of religious self-consciousness and the crisis of cultural and national values that have been historically developed in traditional society. Within the second approach, the determination of suicidal terrorism is due to social protest against an unfair system of social organization and established social relations.

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“…Filote et al [22] stated that such attacks are related to religious conflicts. They showed that religious conflicts were the major cause of suicide attacks from 1981 to 2010.…”

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Suicide Bomb Attack Identification and Analytics through Data Mining Techniques

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Suicide bomb attacks are a high priority concern nowadays for every country in the world. They are a massively destructive criminal activity known as terrorism where one explodes a bomb attached to himself or herself, usually in a public place, taking the lives of many. Terrorist activity in different regions of the world depends and varies according to geopolitical situations and significant regional factors. There has been no significant work performed previously by utilizing the Pakistani suicide attack dataset and no data mining-based solutions have been given related to suicide attacks. This paper aims to contribute to the counterterrorism initiative for the safety of this world against suicide bomb attacks by extracting hidden patterns from suicidal bombing attack data. In order to analyze the psychology of suicide bombers and find a correlation between suicide attacks and the prediction of the next possible venue for terrorist activities, visualization analysis is performed and data mining techniques of classification, clustering and association rule mining are incorporated. For classification, Naïve Bayes, ID3 and J48 algorithms are applied on distinctive selected attributes. The results exhibited by classification show high accuracy against all three algorithms applied, i.e., 73.2%, 73.8% and 75.4%. We adapt the K-means algorithm to perform clustering and, consequently, the risk of blast intensity is identified in a particular location. Frequent patterns are also obtained through the Apriori algorithm for the association rule to extract the factors involved in suicide attacks.

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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

Cited by 15 publications

References 53 publications

Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust

Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust

Criminological and socio-psychological research of suicidal terrorism in the postmodern era

Suicide Bomb Attack Identification and Analytics through Data Mining Techniques

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