Sustainable Security and Sacred Values – by Hammad Sheikh
A short piece on the importance of understanding sacred values for solving pressing global problems.
Sustainable Security and Sacred Values. April 18, 2016. Sustainable Security.
Political Science
Robert Axelrod is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation (cited in more than five hundred books and four thousand articles). His current research interests include complexity theory (especially agent-based modeling), and international security. Recently, Axelrod has consulted and lectured on promoting cooperation and harnessing complexity for the United Nations, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Defense, and various organizations serving health care professionals, business leaders, and K-12 educators. He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago (1964), and a PhD in political science from Yale (1969).
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A short piece on the importance of understanding sacred values for solving pressing global problems.
Sustainable Security and Sacred Values. April 18, 2016. Sustainable Security.
Comment devient-on djihadiste? (April 7, 2016). Télégrama.fr. By Scott Atran and Nafees Hamid. Read Part 1 of 2 // Read Part 2 of 2
Terror in Europe: Safeguarding U.S. Citizens at Home and Abroad. (April 5, 2016). Statement before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. By Juan C. Zarate.
Dr. Hammad Sheikh developed a Terrorism Attack Visualization Tool to illustrate all terrorist attacks since 1970. Data is derived from the START Center’s Global Terrorism Database. You can see the shift from communist terrorism to Islamic terrorism after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Davis, Richard. 2016. Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East: Insurgency in the Holy Land. Routledge: London.
Interview with Scott Atran: To fight against EI, “we need to look at its power of seduction.”
Scott Atran: l’homme qui a compris les terroristes. France Culture, 18 January 2016. Guillaume Erner reçoit Scott Atran, anthropologue américain, directeur de Recherche au CNRS, professeur Adjoint de Psychologie, d’Anthropologie et de Ressources Naturelles à l’Université de Michigan.
Global news and analysis presented by Mark Mardell, on The World This Weekend. Listen at the 21 minute mark to hear his fascinating interview about ISIS as a revolution with Scott Atran, a research fellow who has interviewed many terrorist sympathizers who believes we are underestimating the strength of this movement – we have “miles and miles of grief to go.” (News segment right before was about anniversary of Charlie Hedbo attack.)
(December 31, 2015). Asking what God would really want really does seem to curb prejudice. The Economist.
Ginges, J., Sheikh, H., Atran, S., Argo, N. (28 Dec 2015). Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.