Title Whether to kill : the cognitive maps of violent and nonviolent individuals / Stephanie Dornschneider

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Political violence -- Egypt -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Political violence -- Germany -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Nonviolence -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Nonviolence -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Political activists -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Political activists -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Political psychology -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Political psychology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Cognitive maps (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- Case studies PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology. Political activists Political psychology Political violence -- Psychological aspects Egypt Germany Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015017686 ISBN 9780812292015 0812292014

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