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Confronting the terrorist mind: explaining the repeated failure of intelligence

Dr Raj Persaud · Gresham College

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About

Modern police forces and governments frequently claim victories in the war against terrorism when a bomb plot is supposedly averted. But this belies a mistaken belief that terrorism is aimed at killing or mutilating indiscriminately. Actually the primary target is the psyche of a population, so our current weapons are impotent against this new battle of the mind because we overly rely on the military, rather than psychology. A psychological analysis produces some surprising insights into how definitively to reduce global terror.

The talk

  1. Confronting the terrorist mind: explaining the repeated failure of intelligence 2004-09-29 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Dr Raj Persaud
Year
2004
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Law
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
Attribution
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