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MANY SCHOLARS ARE CURRENTLY ARGUING THAT THE NOTION THAT WAR SHOULD BE USED TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST HAS INCREASINGLY BEEN DISCREDITED AND ABANDONED, AND THAT WAR IS INCREASINGLY BECOMING OBSOLETE. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT SUCH A VIEW IS RATHER UNJUSTIFIED, TOO OPTIMISTIC AND SOMEWHAT PREMATURE. AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE, WOULD INDICATE THAT THE ROLE OF FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HAS INCREASED RATHER THAN DECLINED. CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY THE EMERGENCE OF VARIOUS AND DIVERSE NEW CENTERS OF POLITICAL DECISIONMAKING. THIS HAS NOT MEANT THE END OF CONFLICT, ONLY A SHIFT IN THE TYPE OF CONFLICT.

"How can we use psychology and the behavioural sciences to aid law enforcement to better identify violent extremists? What can we learn from past attacks to ensure that our society is more prepared? How can societies deal with tension after these attacks? Violent extremists are evolving, constantly honing their strategies to out-manuever the 'good guys'. Faced with the quandary, challenges, and responsibilities of ensuring the safety of the society, practitioners and policymakers have to take decisive steps to respond and mitigate the impact of an attack. However, the daunting task of countering violent extremism is still plagued by the lack of basic understanding of the phenomenon. This book, Learning from Violent Extremist Attacks: Behavioural Sciences Insights for Practitioners and Policymakers, attempts to fill a gap in the extant literature by offering a behavioural sciences approach to integrate our understanding of the threat of violent extremism, with knowledge drawn from diverse fields, such as psychology, sociology, history, political science, technology, and communications to identify the lessons learned and provide scientifically defensible interventions and approaches for both the practitioners and policymakers."--

Preface -- Introduction to criminal and forensic psychology -- Deception and the -- Detection of deception -- Criminal profiling -- Sex offending -- Violent offending -- Responding to crime -- Terrorism and violent extremism -- Applying forensic psychology in legal settings -- Epilogue.

Debra Majeed sheds light on families whose form and function conflict with U.S. civil law. Polygyny-multiple-wife marriage-has steadily emerged as an alternative to the low numbers of marriageable African American men and the high number of female-led households in black America. This book features the voices of women who welcome polygyny, oppose it, acquiesce to it, or even negotiate power in its practices. Majeed examines the choices available to African American Muslim women who are considering polygyny or who are living it. She calls attention to the ways in which interpretations of Isla

Contributors include Hugues Dumont (Belgium), J.Isawa Elaigwu (Nigeria), Thomas Fleiner (Switzerland), Xavier Bernadí Gil (Spain), Ellis Katz (USA), Nicolas Lagasse (Belgium), George Mathew (India), Clement Macintyre (Australia), Enric Argullol Murgades (Spain), Manuel González Oropeza (Mexico), Marcelo Piancastelli (Brazil), Hans-Peter Schneider (Germany), Richard Simeon (Canada), Marc Van der Hulst (Belgium), Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck (Belgium), and John M. Williams (Australia).