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Up the down staircase
Christian Century, June 14, 2005
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE: Psychologist Fathali Moghaddam describes the development of a terrorist by using an analogy to a staircase in a six-floor building. Terrorists in the making move from feelings of unfairness and deprivation (ground floor) to the search for ways to improve the social conditions (first floor) to being influenced by leaders to project their anger onto an "enemy" (second floor).
From there they begin to see terrorism as a justified strategy (third floor) and become ripe for recruitment into a terrorist organization (fourth floor). Finally, specific individuals are trained to carry out terrorist attacks. The problem with antiterrorist strategies in the West is that they tend to focus on destroying the top leaders of terrorist organizations and preventing acts of terrorism--the last floor in this staircase analogy. Long-term strategies must deal with the conditions that encourage people to climb the staircase (American Psychologist, February-March).
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