Understanding Suicide Terrorism delves upon the enigmatic issue of suicide terrorism. The book is an interdisciplinary multi-faceted venture that brings together scholarly work from across the world, across cultures and societies on the issue of suicide terror.

Table of Contents

• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword - Professor Ariel Merari
• Preface
• Section I Suicide Terrorism: A Phenomenon
• 1. Suicide Terrorism: Delineating the Construct - Swati Mukherjee, Updesh Kumar, and Manas K. Mandal
• 2. Suicide Terrorism Explained: A Psychosocial Approach - Luis de la Corte Ibáñez
• 3. Evolutionary Psychological Science of Suicide Terrorism - James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford
• 4. Suicide Terrorism as Social Noise: A Communicative Perspective - Jonathan Matusitz
• 5. ‘Mumbai Style’: Exploration of a Concept - Mark Dechesne
• 6. Suicide Bombings: Homicidal Killing or a Weapon of War? - Riaz Hassan
• Section II Suicide Terrorism: A Process
• 7. The Psychology of Suicide Terrorism - Jerrold M. Post, Farhana Ali, Schuyler W. Henderson, Stephen Shanfield, Jeff Victoroff, and Stevan Weine
• 8. The Militant Jihadi Ideology of Martyrdom as Short-lived Psychological First Aid for Trauma and Loss - Anne Speckhard
• 9. Are Suicide Terrorists Suicidal? - Bruce Bongar, Uri Kugel, and Victoria Kendrick
• 10. The Role of Military Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Understanding Suicide Terrorism - Uri Kugel, Laurie Black, Joseph Tomlins, Elvin Sheykhani, Bruce Bongar, Morgan Banks, and Larry James
• 11. The Use and Abuse of Children/Youth in Terrorism and Suicide Bombing - Edna Erez and Anat Berko
• 12. Deterring Suicide Terrorism - Dushyant Singh
• About the Editors and Contributors