Jessica Stern

Det påstås att ungefär 14 500 krig har utkämpats sedan år 3 500 f.Kr. Mänskligheten har bara erfarit 300 år av fred på jorden. Under 1900-talet dödades fler människor i krig än något tidigare sekel. Relativt sett dödar vi dock varandra mer sällan. Håller vi gradvis på att bli mer fredliga? Oavsett hur många som dödas, och med vilken metod, kan vi vara säkra på att krig kommer att fortsätta utkämpas. Ligger orsakerna till krig i samhället eller i biologin, i tävlan om ekonomiska resurser eller sexuella, i historiska omständigheter eller i en universell våldsinstinkt? Allt sedan antiken fram till dagens terrorism har krig varit förstörare och skapare av stater och civilisationer. Essäerna i denna antologi har sitt ursprung i det internationellt välrenommerade Engelsbergsseminariet 2015 och är skrivna av historiker, journalister, tänkare, forskare och författare från hela världen. Huvudredaktörer är Kurt Almqvist och Alexander Linklater.

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism.Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations she had with Karadzic would profoundly alter her understanding of the mechanics of fear, the motivations of violence, and the psychology of those who perpetrate mass atrocities at a state level and who—like the terrorists she had previously studied—target noncombatants, in violation of ethical norms and international law.How do leaders persuade ordinary people to kill their neighbors? What is the “ecosystem” that creates and nurtures genocidal leaders? Could anything about their personal histories, personalities, or exposure to historical trauma shed light on the formation of a war criminal’s identity in opposition to a targeted Other?In My War Criminal, Jessica Stern brings to bear her incisive analysis and her own deeply considered reactions to her interactions with Karadzic, a brilliant and often shockingly charming psychiatrist and poet who spent twelve years in hiding, disguising himself as an energy healer, while also offering a deeply insightful and sometimes chilling account of the complex and even seductive powers of a magnetic leader—and what can happen when you spend many, many hours with that person.

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalists.Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations she had with Karadzic would profoundly alter her understanding of the mechanics of fear, the motivations of violence, and the psychology of those who perpetrate mass atrocities at a state level and who--like the terrorists she had previously studied--target noncombatants, in violation of ethical norms and international law.How do leaders persuade ordinary people to kill their neighbors? What is the "ecosystem" that creates and nurtures genocidal leaders? Could anything about their personal histories, personalities, or exposure to historical trauma shed light on the formation of a war criminal's identity in opposition to a targeted Other?In My War Criminal, Jessica Stern brings to bear her incisive analysis and her own deeply considered reactions to her interactions with Karadzic, a brilliant and often shockingly charming psychiatrist and poet who spent twelve years in hiding, disguising himself as an energy healer, while also offering a deeply insightful and sometimes chilling account of the complex and even seductive powers of a magnetic leader--and what can happen when you spend many, many hours with that person. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalists.Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations she had with Karadzic would profoundly alter her understanding of the mechanics of fear, the motivations of violence, and the psychology of those who perpetrate mass atrocities at a state level and who--like the terrorists she had previously studied--target noncombatants, in violation of ethical norms and international law.How do leaders persuade ordinary people to kill their neighbors? What is the "ecosystem" that creates and nurtures genocidal leaders? Could anything about their personal histories, personalities, or exposure to historical trauma shed light on the formation of a war criminal's identity in opposition to a targeted Other?In My War Criminal, Jessica Stern brings to bear her incisive analysis and her own deeply considered reactions to her interactions with Karadzic, a brilliant and often shockingly charming psychiatrist and poet who spent twelve years in hiding, disguising himself as an energy healer, while also offering a deeply insightful and sometimes chilling account of the complex and even seductive powers of a magnetic leader--and what can happen when you spend many, many hours with that person. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

IN THIS SKILLFULLY WROUGHT, POWERFUL STUDY, A TERRORISM EXPERT, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER (THE ULTIMATE TERRORISTS), AND LECTURER AT HARVARD, RETURNS TO A DEFINITIVE EPISODE OF TERROR IN HER OWN EARLY LIFE AND TRACES ITS GRIM, DAMAGING RAMIFICATIONS. HAVING GROWN UP IN CONCORD, MASS., IN 1973, STERN, THEN 15, AND HER SISTER, A YEAR YOUNGER, WERE FORCIBLY RAPED AT GUNPOINT BY AN UNKNOWN INTRUDER; WHEN THE POLICE REOPENED THE CASE IN 2006, STERN WAS COMPELLED TO CONFRONT THE DEVASTATING EXPERIENCE. THE POLICE INITIALLY TIED THE CASE TO A LOCAL SERIAL RAPIST, WHO SERVED 18 YEARS IN PRISON BEFORE HANGING HIMSELF. STERN S PAINFUL JOURNEY TAKES HER BACK TO THE TRAUMATIC AFTERSHOCKS OF THE RAPE, WHEN SHE BEGAN TO AFFECT A STERN, HARD VENEER NOT UNLIKE THE STIFF-UPPER-LIP APPROACH TO SURVIVAL HER OWN GERMAN-BORN JEWISH FATHER HAD ASSUMED AFTER HIS CHILDHOOD YEARS LIVING THROUGH NAZI PERSECUTION. COVERING UP HER DEEP-SEATED SENSE OF SHAME WITH ENTRENCHED SILENCE, STERN HAD A CLASSIC POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER-WHICH SHE WAS ONLY ABLE TO RECOGNIZE AFTER HER OWN WORK INTERVIEWING TERRORISTS. STERN S WORK IS A STRONG, CLEAR-EYED, ELUCIDATING STUDY OF THE PROFOUND REVERBERATIONS OF TRAUMA. फरारी असं म्हणणारी जेसिकास्टर्न,आंतरराष्ट्रीयख्याती ची दहशतवादतज्ज्ञ आणि विरोधाभास असाकी, हीच दहशत तिला स्वत ला अगदी कोवळ्यावयात अनुभवावी लागली - गनपॉइंटवर केलेल्या बलात्काराच्या रूपानं तीनहून अधिकत पंयादहशती ची वेदना ती नाकारत राहिली; एका कर्तव्यदक्ष पोलीस ऑफिसरनं तिची केस पुन्हा हातात घेईपर्यंत. एकीकडं झ्ऊएची लक्षणं (आघातोत्तरतणावविकृती) तर दुसरीकडं कर्तृत्वाची उंच भरारी; अशा दोन पातळ्यां वर तिचं जीवनपुढं जात राहिलं. पण तिच्यातल्या संशोधकानं आपल्या बलात्का-याचा अभ्यास करण्याची चालून आलेली ही संधी वाया नाही घालवली. आपला गुन्हेगार ब्रायनबीट,याच्या मित्रपरिवाराच्या तिनं मुलाखती घेतल्या.ब्रायनबीट जिथं राहत होता ते घर ती बघून आली. इतवंचनाहीतर स्वत चं कुटुंब,स्वत चं मन यांचं परिशीलन तिनं केलं आणि त्यातून साकारलं हे पुस्तक... एका धाडसी विषया चातितकाच मनमोकळा आढावाघेणारं हे पुस्तक मनाच्या अथांग डोहात डोकावण्याची जिज्ञासा असणा-या प्रत्येक वाचकासाठी पण, लेखिका तेवढ्यावरच थांबत नाही. जाता-जाता ती सावधतेचा इशाराही देते. बलात्कारा सारख्या अत्यंत घृणास्पद गुन्ह्याला समाज पटकन विसरून जातो; त्या गुन्ह्याच्या गांभीर्याचा अस्वीकार करतो आणि त्य

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.

The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda.Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger, two of America's leading experts on terrorism, dissect the new model for violent extremism that ISIS has leveraged into an empire of death in Iraq and Syria, and an international network that is rapidly expanding in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world.ISIS: The State of Terror traces the ideological innovations that the group deploys to recruit unprecedented numbers of Westerners, the composition of its infamous snuff videos, and the technological tools it exploits on social media to broadcast its atrocities, and its recruiting pitch to the world, including its success at attracting thousands of Western adherents. The authors examine ISIS's predatory abuse of women and children and its use of horror to manipulate world leaders and its own adherents as it builds its twisted society. The authors offer a much-needed perspective on how world leaders should prioritize and respond to ISIS's deliberate and insidious provocations.

"Denial is one of the most important books I have read in a decade....Brave, life-changing, and gripping as a thriller....A tour de force."--Naomi Wolf One of the world's foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, Jessica Stern has subtitled her book Denial, "A Memoir of Terror." A brave and astonishingly frank examination of her own unsolved rape at the age of fifteen, Denial investigates how the rape and its aftermath came to shape Stern's future and her work. The author of the New York Times Notable Book Terror in the Name of God, Jessica Stern brilliantly explores the nature of evil in an extraordinary volume that Louise Richardson, author of What Terrorists Want, calls, "Memorable, powerful and deeply courageous...a riveting read."

Forfatteren har oppsøkt terroristorganisasjoner og snakket med ledere og fotfolk over hele verden, for å forstå hva som ligger bak religiøse terroristers motiver og handlinger. Felles for alle disse hellige krigerne er at de er villige til å drepe uskyldige mennesker for å nå sine mål. Mål som har like mye med politikk som med religiøs overbevisning å gjøre. For mange av lederne er det dessuten terrorismen et middel til å oppnå personlig makt og rikdom. Har register.

For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively-to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola-she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common. Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how terrorist organizations are formed by opportunistic leaders who-using religion as both motivation and justification-recruit the disenfranchised. She depicts how moral fervor is transformed into sophisticated organizations that strive for money, power, and attention. Jessica Stern's extensive interaction with the faces behind the terror provide unprecedented insight into acts of inexplicable horror, and enable her to suggest how terrorism can most effectively be countered. A crucial book on terrorism, Terror in the Name of God is a brilliant and thought-provoking work.

As bad as they are, why aren't terrorists worse? With biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons at hand, they easily could be. And, as this chilling book suggests, they soon may well be. A former member of the National Security Council staff, Jessica Stern guides us expertly through a post-Cold War world in which the threat of all-out nuclear war, devastating but highly unlikely, is being replaced by the less costly but much more imminent threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction.According to SternThe Ultimate Terrorists depicts a not-very-distant future in which both independent and state-sponsored terrorism using weapons of mass destruction could actually occur. But Stern also holds out hope for new technologies that might combat this trend, and for legal and political remedies that would improve public safety without compromising basic constitutional rights.