October 2017

11th October 2017

Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 2: fundamentalism, regression and repair

Abstract Prior to the watershed events of 11 September 2001, terrorism was generally seen simply as politically motivated, criminal violence. Since then the phenomena of religious fundamentalism, political radicalization and terrorism have become fused in the public mind, partly under the influence of the political and military reaction described as the ‘War on Terror’ and its successors. While there is …

11th October 2017

Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 1: terrorism as dissolution in a complex system

Abstract In the first of two papers in this Special Issue, Lord Alderdice draws on his personal experience of living and working in Northern Ireland and other countries that have suffered from terrorism, and describes from a psychoanalytic and systemic perspective the history of national, cultural and political conflicts which form the backdrop to the struggles against fundamentalism, radicalization and …