# Confronting the terrorist mind: explaining the repeated failure of intelligence

- 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](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/confronting-terrorist-mind-explaining-repeated-failure-intelligence)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Confronting the terrorist mind: explaining the repeated failure of intelligence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/confronting-terrorist-mind-explaining-repeated-failure-intelligence/68d9dec1e4f9) (YouTube)