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Forest jihad : assessing the evidence for "popular resistance terrorism"

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Date
01/2014
Author
Marsden, Sarah Victoria
Marino, Daiana
Ramsay, Gilbert Aubrey Warner
Keywords
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
SD Forestry
BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
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Abstract
Despite increasing concern over the potential threat from “forest jihad,” there has been no systematic attempt to assess whether such attacks are in fact taking place. Drawing on principles from the geospatial profiling of terrorist events, fire-risk prediction data, and information on jihadist convictions, this article offers a thorough review of the evidence to address this question. The available information suggests that so far, jihadists have not attempted to attack North American or European wildlands by means of arson. Despite calls for “popular resistance terrorism” in the jihadist literature, and the apparently low costs associated with this type of attack, jihadists have so far shown little appetite for “forest jihad.”
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Marsden , S V , Marino , D & Ramsay , G A W 2014 , ' Forest jihad : assessing the evidence for "popular resistance terrorism" ' , Studies in Conflict and Terrorism , vol. 37 , no. 1 , pp. 1-17 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2014.853604
Publication
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2014.853604
ISSN
1057-610X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, on 20/12/2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1057610X.2014.853604
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6851

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