Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
Creating resilience against the influence of online propaganda of Islamic State (IS)
... Many teachers find it difficult to discuss controversial subjects in the classroom, according to research. That does not has to be the case, of course, for all teachers. In addition, it appears that many young adults, ...
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The Islamic State's use of escapism as a means of seduction and mobilization of Western audiences
... The Islamic State is an al-Qaida splinter group with a militant Sunni Islamist ideology (Stewart, 2017) and is based on an orthodox strict interpretation of the Qur’an and refuses the modernization of Islam ...
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The Islamic State: Territoriality through terror
... the Islamic State exposes several competing ...the Islamic State as ‘terrorism’ often interpret the group as an ‘Al Qaeda redux’ (Kadercan ...the Islamic State as a ...
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Dehumanisation in religious and sectarian violence : the case of Islamic State
... the Islamic State has not established the bitterness of the ages on one inch of ground, unless it was to protect blood and have mercy and forgiveness on those who make war on it and shed the blood of its ...
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Deterring Islamic State, an Italian job: Has deterrence played a role in the reason for why Italy has not been attacked by Islamic State?
... There is also no lack of indicators that IS has had plans to attack Italy. For example, at the end of 2016, a video from IS, which was circulating on the web, identified the Vatican in Rome as ‘the next target’. After ...
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Targeting “Islamic State” Oil Facilities
... the Islamic State may have adopted, coerced, or partnered with those carrying out existing smuggling activity does not make the participants in this criminal activity automatically part of the jihadist ...
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Off with their heads: the Islamic State and civilian beheadings
... the Islamic State uses the tactic in a broader campaign of ...The Islamic State employs counter-normative violence against symbolic victims to gain compliance from ...fledgling state. ...
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Gendered Jihad – Recruitment Strategy of the Islamic State
... The motivating factors to join terrorist organizations vary considerably including religious, psychosocial, sociological, and political aspects. 28 Concerning ISIS, academic scholars who have worked on these motivating ...
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Jihad between islamic jurisprudence and practice of the islamic state in iraq and syria
... facto state that comprised of the Sunni areas in Iraq and the Sunni areas in Syria “the shūrā (consultative) council of the Islamic State studied this matter after the Islamic State – ...
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TURKEY, THE KURDS, AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE
... Some in Turkey view the PKK as a long-term threat and IS as a short-term threat, when in reality the reverse may be true. The Turkey–PKK conflict has been managed at different points in the past, and the two sides have ...
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New imaginaries of war : how Hamas and the Islamic State advance their political objectives on a virtual battlefield : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Massey University, Albany Campus, New Zealand
... IS has comprehensive and complex governance arrangements, including the appointment of civic officials responsible for public utilities such as water, electricity, and gas. These arrangements enable it to operate ...
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Gendered space in the leisure landscapes of a modernising Islamic State
... Day (1999) claims that institutional management of quasi-private-public spaces in modern urban cultures aims to control and intervene in day to day management of the spaces by the use of security guards, surveillance ...
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A special responsibility to protect: The UK, Australia and the Rise of Islamic State
... Iraqi state and created a devastating power ...of state institutions when, in reality, these institutions had been driven to the point of collapse by both decades of conflict and the international sanctions ...
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... In his National Security Strategy (February 2015), President Barack Obama stated that, “the threat of catastrophic attacks against our homeland by terrorists has diminished but still persists . . . Our adversaries are ...
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The Community Rating System: Assessing Indicators of Community Participation, A Dasymetric and Sovi Approach
... the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (aka the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, IS and ...with Islamic extremists, a phenomenon that is becoming more prevalent in many countries around the ...
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Thesis.docx
... as Islamic State and other transnational jihadist networks have long characterized the foreign policy of the United States as an assault on the global Ummah and ...90 Islamic State presents ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan – the beginning of a new crisis in the Middle East? OSW COMMENTARY No 247, 2017 08 08
... of Islamic State in the region which is being carried out by Iraqi government for- ces supported by Shia militias (Hashd al-Shabi), Iranian forces and other actors, including the USA (mainly air operations) ...
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SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF PAKISTAN UNDER THE SPEECH OF MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH ON 11TH AUGUST 1947
... secular state and religion is the personal matter of every citizen of Pakistan, (ii) second group (which is in majority) advocates that Muslims of British India struggled for a separate Muslim Land therefore there ...
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War Crimes and Shifting Borders in the Middle East. CEPS Essay No. 14, 11 September 2014
... However, supporting the Kurds alone will not be enough to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq. For some time now, the transatlantic partners have been hesitant to offer military support to the Shia-dominated ...
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Moderate Islam a contradiction in terms or a political force for the 21st century?
... Pro-democratic constituencies will only develop if the popular perception is that all other alternatives to an unacceptable status quo have been exhausted, or if democracy can be associated with other ideologies of ...
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