Terrorism, Talking and Transformation

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“…This has also led critical terrorism scholars to start exploring the relationship between the ‘terrorist’ label and negotiations. Toros’ work for example shows how the naming of a group as ‘terrorist’ can forestall nonviolent responses to terrorism (Toros 2008, 2012).…”

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The Mediation Dilemma of (Not) Talking to Terrorists

Haspeslagh

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Not long ago, it was accepted practice to 'talk to whomever you need to talk to for peace'. Then the idea that you cannot talk to 'terrorists' took hold. The article explores norm contestation, what happens when hard norms interact with softer norm even when they are settled and central to mediation practice. The article traces the emergence, development and interaction of these two contradictory norms in key United Nations documents and discussions since 1945. It also triangulates this content analysis with personal interviews with UN mediators and perspectives from international non-governmental mediators. The article argues that over the last 20 years the embedding of proscription regimes in the multilateral system has deeply reshaped fundamental norms underlying mediation such as impartiality, inclusivity and the idea that mediators should be able to speak to everyone to protect human lives.

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The Mediation Dilemma of (Not) Talking to Terrorists

Haspeslagh

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…Indeed, this narrative strengthened the more I studied global counter-terrorism practices, dialogued with other CTS scholars, and challenged mainstream security and terrorism studies in their construction of This invariably entered my own writing. So my book (Toros 2012) makes seven references to the attacks, six of them as temporal rupture. The references are also all-encompassing as ) speak of a pre-…”

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“9/11 is alive and well” or how critical terrorism studies has sustained the 9/11 narrative

Toros

2017

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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“…While Gunning and Toros already called in 2009 for policy-relevant research which included the spheres of government and engaged policy-makers and policy-takers (Toros and Gunning 2009, 105), work in this area is still scattered. It would be unfair to argue that works on normative formulations of counter-terrorism are absent from the literature (English 2009;Hasting 2004;Ram and Summy 2008), but few of these have been inscribed within Critical Terrorism Studies (Lindahl Forthcoming, 2018;Toros and Tellidis 2014;Toros 2012).…”

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“…As stated above, among CTS' core normative commitments, debates on emancipation received a strong impetus at the beginning of the project, in its first formulations. These, however, slightly quietened down in the last years, while the field was mainly focusing on the deconstruction of discourses of terrorism and counter-terrorismalthough there are some significant exceptions (Toros 2012). Contributing to this debate and aiming to spark the discussion again, Lindahl reinterprets the notion of emancipation in a new light and reconceptualises it as a Weberian value-axiom.…”

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Rethinking terrorism and countering terrorism from a critical perspective.CTS and normativity

Martini

2019

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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Acknowledging and drawing from previous literature uncomfortable with mainstream and state-centric approaches to counter-terrorism (Horgan and Boyle 2008; Herman and O'Sullivan 1989; Chomsky 1988; Zulaika and Douglass 1996), the founders of Critical Terrorism Studies put forward the label with the intention to institutionalise a critical stream of thought within Terrorism Studies (Jackson, Breen-Smyth, and Gunning 2009, 1). Their purpose was to create an "umbrella-term" to gather scholars from different backgrounds in an attempt to challenge but also complete and reformulate mainstream approaches to terrorism and counterterrorism. Among critical scholars' efforts there has always been an attempt to be heard and influence academics but also policy-makersalthough CTS scholars have not always agreed on practical aspects (see, among others, Fitzgerald, Ali, and Armstrong 2016; Jackson 2016b; Toros 2016; McGowan 2016). Therefore, it is not an overstatement to argue that the issue of normativity has always been central to Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS). The first works published on the topic already placed ontological, epistemological and ethical-normative commitments at the centre of the first CTS' academicand politicalagenda (R. Jackson 2007; Gunning 2007). This concern is somehow not surprising considering that CTS was founded with the intention to deepen and broaden the study of terrorism (Toros and Gunning 2009; Jarvis 2009). From the very beginning, CTS followed the spirit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and, of the Aberystwyth School's approach to security, and placed normativity based on emancipation at the centre of its political agenda (McDonald 2007, 2009). Therefore, for its founders, "doing" Critical Terrorism Studies not only implied deconstructing existing understandings of terrorism and resulting counterterrorismalthough this was an important "face" of the project (Jarvis 2009). It also meant looking for and formulating new, less violent and more ethical and humane ways of dealing with (and understanding) political violence. The CTS' agenda was then further formulated in Critical Terrorism Studies: A new Research Agenda (R. Jackson, Breen-Smyth, and Gunning 2009a). Here, they argued, critique and the identification of gaps in the literature were not enough. It was also important to provide "a clear and realistic alternative" (R. Jackson, Breen-Smyth, and Gunning 2009, 4). Therefore, the critical-oriented approach to the study of terrorism they formulated in the book was based on new "ontology, epistemology, methodology, normative standpoints, (and) ethics [. .

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Terrorism, Talking and Transformation

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The Mediation Dilemma of (Not) Talking to Terrorists

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“9/11 is alive and well” or how critical terrorism studies has sustained the 9/11 narrative

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