CONDUCTING TERRORISM FIELD RESEARCH
This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting fieldwork on terrorism.
The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from necessary and crucial to dangerous, unethical and impossible. While there is an increasing interest among terrorism specialists in conducting such research, there is no single volume providing prospective field researchers with a guideline to such work.
Conducting Terrorism Field Research aims to fill this gap and offers a collection of articles from experienced authors representing different risk groups, disciplines, methodological approaches, regional specializations, and other context-specific aspects. Each contributor provides a road-map to their own research, describing planning and preparation phases, the formalities involved in getting into conflict zones and gaining access to sources. The end product is a how to guide to field research on terrorism, which will be of much value to terrorism experts and novices alike.
This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of terrorism studies, war and conflict studies, criminology, IR and security studies.
Adam Dolnik is Professor of Counterterrorism at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Germany, and Professor of Terrorism Studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is the author of Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technologies, Tactics, and Global Trends (Routledge, 2007) and Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists (2008), as well as over 50 reports and articles on terrorism-related issues.
Contemporary Terrorism Studies
Understanding Terrorist Innovation
Technology, tactics and global trends
Adam Dolnik
The Strategy of Terrorism
How it works, why it fails
Peter Neumann and M.L.R. Smith
Female Terrorism and Militancy
Agency, utility, and organization
Edited by Cindy D. Ness
Women and Terrorism
Female activity in domestic and international terror groups
Margaret Gonzalez-Perez
The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism
Public and government responses to attack
Ben Sheppard
The De-Radicalization of Jihadists
Transforming armed Islamist movements
Omar Ashour
Targeting Terrorist Financing
International cooperation and new regimes
Arabinda Acharya
Managing Terrorism and Insurgency
Regeneration, recruitment and attrition
Cameron I. Crouch
Religion and Political Violence
Sacred protest in the modern world
Jennifer L. Jefferis
International Terrorism Post-9/11
Comparative dynamics and responses
Edited by Asaf Siniver
Talking to Terrorists
Concessions and the renunciation of violence
Carolin Goerzig
Freedom and Terror
Reason and unreason in politics
Abraham Kaplan and Gabriel Weimann
Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance
A comparative study
Beatrice de Graaf
The EU and Counter-Terrorism
Politics, polity and policies after 9/11
Javier Argomaniz
The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism
European security policy after 9/11
Raphael Bossong
Conducting Terrorism Field Research
A guide
Edited by Adam Dolnik
First-hand field research is a vital part of original scholarship on terrorism. This excellent volume draws on a wide range of cases, and a rich body of high-quality research experience, to provide insights which will be of enormous value to scholars in the future.
Richard English, University of St Andrews, Scotland
A uniquely useful compendium of expert guidance on one of the most daunting obstacles to productive research on terrorism: field work. This contribution fills a large gap.
Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University, USA
An essential primer for anyone contemplating field work in war or conflict zones, Conducting Terrorism Field Research distills best practices, dispenses practical guidance and provides critical preparatory advice to anyone contemplating or undertaking such research.
Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University, USA
Violence requires justification. This is also true for terrorism. Terrorists want to explain and hope to be understood. In this ground-breaking volume, 16 researchers describe their journeys into the lion's den and the practical, methodological and ethical problems they encountered when interviewing terrorists. If further proof were needed that the field of terrorism studies has achieved a higher level of maturity, this volume, introduced and edited by Adam Dolnik, provides it.
Alex Schmid, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague, the Netherlands
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Conducting terrorism field research : a guide / edited by Adam Dolnik.
p. cm. (Contemporary terrorism studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. TerrorismResearchMethodology. I. Dolnik, Adam.
HV6431.C64728 2013
363.325072dc23 2012037738
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