TY - JOUR
T1 - Making Palestinian "martyrdom operations"/"suicide attacks"
T2 - Interviews with would-be perpetrators and organizers
AU - Merari, Ariel
AU - Fighel, Jonathan
AU - Ganor, Boaz
AU - Lavie, Ephraim
AU - Tzoreff, Yohanan
AU - Livne, Arie
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Knowledge about the ways in which suicide attacks are recruited and prepared and on the motivation of suicide bombers and the factors that influence the decisions of organizers of suicide attacks has so far been sketchy and sporadic, derived mostly from media sources. In this study, 15 Palestinian would-be suicides and 14 organizers of suicide attacks participated in semi-structured interviews designed to fill this lacuna. The paper focuses on the self-reported feelings and behavior of the suicide bombers from recruitment to dispatching, as well as on the organizers' self-reported views and decisions concerning suicide attacks.
AB - Knowledge about the ways in which suicide attacks are recruited and prepared and on the motivation of suicide bombers and the factors that influence the decisions of organizers of suicide attacks has so far been sketchy and sporadic, derived mostly from media sources. In this study, 15 Palestinian would-be suicides and 14 organizers of suicide attacks participated in semi-structured interviews designed to fill this lacuna. The paper focuses on the self-reported feelings and behavior of the suicide bombers from recruitment to dispatching, as well as on the organizers' self-reported views and decisions concerning suicide attacks.
KW - Suicide attacks
KW - Suicide bombers
KW - Suicide organizers
KW - Terrorism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951644974&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09546550903409403
DO - 10.1080/09546550903409403
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AN - SCOPUS:77951644974
SN - 0954-6553
VL - 22
SP - 102
EP - 119
JO - Terrorism and Political Violence
JF - Terrorism and Political Violence
IS - 1
ER -
