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Dr George Kassimeris, Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Terrorism at the University of Wolverhampton, England.
There are a very few people on this planet who would devise carnage for the sheer hell of it. They do what they do for a cause. From George Grivas to Ulrike Mainhof and Renato Curcio, to Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden, the history of modern terrorism is filled with groups and individuals who believed themselves to be acting in response to intolerable wrongs, committed against themselves or others. But how should we deal with such people? This talk will argue that if things have gone from bad to worse since 9/11, it is not by the actions of the terrorists but by those of the western governments who have broken every single rule in the counter-terrorism book. Is the situation redeemable?
George Kassimeris is the author of Europe’s Last Red Terrorists, the first book on Europe's longest-running revolutionary terrorists, the notorious November 17th group and the editor of The Barbarisation of Warfare (2006) and Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User’s Guide which was selected in the Best Books of 2007 by the Independent newspaper. Kassimeris is also the co-editor of the new journal Critical Studies on Terrorism and serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and Prospect magazine, Britain’s leading intellectual monthly. A journalist before joining the academia, he regularly broadcasts on security and terrorism for the BBC and other international media organisations. He has a BA in Politics, an MA in European Studies from Reading and a doctorate in International Relations from St Andrews, Scotland.
Coffee, tea and biscuits provided.
To stimulate discussion and debate, the Coffee Morning will have limited spaces.
Entry is on a first come – first served basis for the first 25 members.
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