Citation

Benedikter R. Global Change Peace Secur. 2020; 32(2): 219-228.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/14781158.2019.1644614

PMID

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Abstract

In recent years, the number of suicidal terror attacks in advanced societies has decreased, inducing the public to widely remove the issue from public post-modern debate. Yet as, among many other examples, the attacks on a church in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo in April 2019 with more than 250 dead and 500 wounded have shown, the age of suicide terrorism is far from over. On the contrary, the archetype remains one of the most present influences in the unconscious imaginary of globalisation, including that of open societies. We shouldn't forget that we still have a lot of work to do in order to better understand and solve the problem, writes Roland Benedikter. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Language: en

Keywords

policy; Terror; governance; suicide bomber; security; terror attacks