Editorial: Ten Years After 9/11: What Have We Learned? Mahmoud Eid and Karim H. Karim
http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/1102/v4i2_e.html
The attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11) initiated a new pattern of global conflict a decade after the Cold War ended. It has pitted many states, including those with Muslim-majorities, against groups claiming to act in the name of Islam. For much of the last ten years, the global media have been transfixed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the terrorist attacks that have been carried out in these and numerous other locations around the world. The governments of many countries have devoted significant resources to the “war on terror” but its end is not within sight. State response to terrorism has mainly been in the forms of militarization and securitization. Some efforts have been made to “win the hearts and minds” of the perceived supporters of terrorism, but scant attention has been paid to its primary bases. A significant amount of research has been conducted on the global conflict. However, little understanding has emerged of how people are motivated to blow up themselves and others, including people of their own faith, or what was really behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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