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Moderators
·Noga Arikha
·Gloria Origgi
·Dan Sperber
Guest Panel
·Avigdor Arikha
·Jean Bethke Elshtain
·Ian Buruma
·Kenan Cayir
·Anthony Dworkin
·Shmuel Eisenstadt
·Jon Elster
·Roger Friedland
·Diego Gambetta
·Francisco Gil-White
·Herbert Gintis
·Jeff Goodwin
·Gene Hammel
·Nicholas Humphrey
·Ugur Komecoglu
·Christine Landfried
·Pénélope Larzillière
·David Lehman
·Peter Alexander Meyers
·Mohammad Nafissi
·Stefano Nespor
·Pasquale Pasquino
·Ian Pitchford
·Henry Rosenfeld
·Alain Roussillon
·Olivier Roy
·Basel Saleh
·Dr. Howard Shevrin
·Dan Sperber
·Herbert F. Spirer
·General Todd Stewart
·Lionel Tiger
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Who are the suicide bombers? What are the causes of suicide attacks? What are the possible lines of defence? Two papers, one by the American anthropologist Scott Atran, the other by the Turkish sociologist Nilüfer Göle, have been open to discussion for a month by a panel of invited discussants. Two different ways of understanding the phenomenon of suicide terrorism. In partnership with
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Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism
Scott Atran
Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction, who thrive on poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates that they have no appreciable psychopatology and are as educated as the surrounding population. A first line of defense is to get the communities from which suicide attackers stem to stop the attack by learning how to minimize the receptivity of mostly ordinary people to recruiting organizations.
Date of publication: 1 July 2003
Close Encounters: Islam, Modernity and Violence
Nilufer Gole
The terrorists were trained and acquired engineering and technical expertise in the United States and in Germany, effortlessly emulated the common lives of Western suburbia; performed in full recognition of the supremacy of the media and they were tuned in to the forces of (anti) globalization. The attack was an attack from within. The terrorists themselves were a product of the modern world, using modern arms, attacking modern targets. Islam was not turning against some kind of external, colonial or occupant force of modernity. In an ironical sense, Islam was never so close to Modernity.
Date of publication: 1 July 2003
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