Essays about: "Suicide Attacks"
Found 3 essays containing the words Suicide Attacks.
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1. Achieving Security by Suicide - A Way of Ensuring a Forever Jihad?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis aims to analyze how identity and potential ontological insecurity are expressed in the Islamic State’s narrative and how this may explain the use of suicide attacks. This is done by analyzing the language in the Islamic State’s official magazines between 2014 to 2017 through a theoretical lens of ontological security. READ MORE
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2. Suicide – Dying for a higher purpose? A study of the motives of the Islamic female suicide bombers through Emile Durkheim’s structural view on suicide
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : There have been several accounts of suicide attacks in the last few years; and although male attackers outnumber female attackers, the number of female suicide bombers has been on the rise. This thesis analyzes the motivation of Muslim female suicide bombers using Durkheim’s theory on suicide and society. READ MORE
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3. The bomber behind the veil and the ferocious fighter: A study of media representations of male and female suicide bombers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Suicide bombings have become a widely used lethal weapon in violent conflicts around the world. These attacks have been committed by both men and women for almost three decades. Still, violent women are commonly perceived as the exception of the rule. READ MORE
