Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 A Cognitive Mapping Approach to Political Violence; 2 Interviewing Violent and Nonviolent Individuals; 3 A Short History of the Individuals' Groups; 4 Constructing Cognitive Maps About Political Violence; 5 A Computational Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Activism; 6 Alternative Worlds Without Violence; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary
Whether to Kill takes a new approach to understanding terrorism. By taking first-person accounts of those involved in both violent and nonviolent action against the state, then analyzing that data via cognitive mapping, Stephanie Dornschneider has opened up new perspectives of what drives people to-or away from-the use of political violence
Analysis
Political Science
Public Policy
Notes
Based on the author's 2012 dissertation submitted to the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)