Projects provide fresh insights into what it takes for communities to accept different religious and world views
Ann Trappers harnessed a shock in her native Belgium to help heal social wounds across Europe.
Ann Trappers harnessed a shock in her native Belgium to help heal social wounds across Europe.
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2023
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found that soldier aphids willingly sacrifice their own lives when they attempt to protect their colony from predators. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Belgian authorities say that a U.S. youth in Pittsburgh tried to hack into the Brussels airport computer system and disable it the night after the March 22 attacks that killed 32 people.
Security
Feb 9, 2017
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While the Westgate terrorist siege in Kenya propelled terrorist group Al Shabaab and, to a lesser extent, the Muslim Youth Centre (MYC) back onto the global scene, the alleged involvement of Samantha Lewthwaite, the "White ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2013
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To understand suicide bombers better – why people kill themselves and others for a cause – we need to look more closely at cultures that value a group over an individual, says new Cornell social sciences research.
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2013
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The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan's only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country's greatest scientist.
Other
Jul 30, 2012
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The way the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden sent a message every bit as powerful as the fact that he was killed in the first place, according to the author of a new history of suicide bombing.
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2012
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Terrorist groups bend the rules of 'true' Islam to justify the use of female suicide bombers, according to Margaret Gonzalez-Perez from Southeastern Louisiana University in the US. Her paper traces the development of radical ...
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...
Engineering
Jun 24, 2009
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