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Tag: Terrorism
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Nation & World
Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Mashail Malik was always interested in the human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics.
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The day of
Former Harvard students recall the confusion and fear of 9/11, the desire to do something, and the sense that everything would be different now.
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Poll unveils millennial agenda for next president
Harvard’s Institute of Politics latest poll of Americans ages 18 to 29 year olds finds that economic concerns top the list.
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Losing the war on jihadism
Former top intelligence officials from the Central Intelligence Agency and Israel’s Mossad discussed threats from the Islamic State, issues involving Israel, and the future of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Terror threat on mind of Italian PM
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy talked about challenges facing Europe in a stop at Harvard during a four-day trip to the U.S.
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An EU outflanked, endangered
Harvard analysts discuss the security, political, and economic ramifications of the Brussels terrorist attacks on the European Union.
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Apple bites back
With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.
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Bent toward violence
Harvard psychiatrist Ronald Schouten answers questions on the San Bernardino attack and the psychology behind both terrorism and the fear it spreads.
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Violence in streets, hope in the data
While the daily news conveys a world beset by horrific acts of terrorism, brutal civil war, and frequent mass shootings, Professor Steven Pinker brought a hopeful message to a talk at Emerson Hall, saying global violence is actually in decline.
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Doctors in a hard place
Increasingly, says a report by Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, doctors can be charged for giving medical care to alleged terrorists.
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A siren call to action
Professor Jessica E. Stern, a leading terrorism expert, talks about the growing number of young, middle-class Westerners leaving home to join the Islamic State.
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Security in Sochi
With public attention focused on the potential for unrest around Sochi to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, the Gazette spoke with Timothy Colton, Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, about the region, security preparations, and the roots of unrest.
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The law before and after 9/11
Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, outlines the security paradigm shift in the run-up to 9/11 and the factors to consider when creating a new legal architecture to fight terrorism.
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‘Why do they hate us?’
The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused Americans to awaken to the disdain for the nation held by some overseas. It also brought harsh attention to U.S. Muslims and mobilized the nation toward actions it may one day rue, experts said at a panel discussion.
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Teaching a tragedy
Speakers from the fields of education, history, government, religion, and politics convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to examine how, why, and what should be taught to young people about the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Lessons of the hunt
Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.
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The tipping point
Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.
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Six years a hostage
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt offered a gripping discussion of her six years held hostage by the FARC rebel group during a discussion at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.
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A friend in the Middle East
If American leaders want help disentangling — and possibly even solving — complex problems in the Middle East, they should look to Saudi Arabia for leadership, said Prince Turki Al Faisal, former ambassador to the United States, in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics on Friday (Nov. 19).
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The oozing fog of war
During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.
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Being prepared, not scared
Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, says Americans should “be prepared, not scared” in dealing with the ongoing threats of terror attacks.
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Nuclear terrorism
NUCLEAR TERRORISM: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, director of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen named senior fellow at Belfer Center
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and terrorism efforts, will join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a senior fellow on Jan. 19.
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Images of terror through the eyes of children
Basma was 8 when Janjaweed fighters on horseback swept into her village in the Darfur region of Sudan. Above them, helicopter gunships joined in the attack.
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Post-colonial wars parsed at Radcliffe
Last week, a two-day interdisciplinary conference on post-colonial wars got under way at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Oct. 30-31 event was the capstone of two years of private meetings at Radcliffe by high-level experts on the wars that followed independence movements in Africa and Asia after World War II.
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Ban calls for international efforts
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the United States to combat the “imminent threat” of climate change, both by reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions and by leading the effort to craft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
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What makes terrorists tick?
Not long before the Sept. 11 attacks, Harvard-trained political scientist Louise Richardson gave up the full-time pursuit of her scholarly specialty — the origins of terrorism.
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Security chief cautions against complacency
If Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was politically wounded by his department’s response to Hurricane Katrina, he showed no sign of it during his forceful lecture Feb. 6 at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Sanders Theatre features talk on building schools for peaceful world
In the remote and mountainous Baltistan region of Pakistan, the beverage of choice is paiyu cha, a mixture of green tea, salt, baking soda, goat’s milk, and a rancid yak butter called mar.