1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781133303321

Autore

Armstrong-Reid Susan <1950->

Titolo

Armies of peace : Canada and the UNRRA years / / Susan Armstrong-Reid and David Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9191-3

1-4426-8737-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Disciplina

341.23/71

Soggetti

International relief - Canada - History - 20th century

Nursing - Canada - History - 20th century

Nurses - Canada

History

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Canada Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Diplomacy of Relief, Rehabilitation, and Repatriation -- 1. Creating UNRRA -- 2. Canada at the Council Sessions -- 3. Politics of Procurement -- pt. 2. World Uprooted: Canadians, UNRRA, and the Challenge of the Displaced -- 4. Personalities and Bureaucracies -- 5. UNRRA Takes Command: The First Field Operations -- 6. Soldiers of Peace or Agents of Repatriation: The Displaced-Persons Operations in Germany -- 7. Torch of Sadness: The Mothers and Children of War -- pt. 3. Carrying Florence's Lamp: Canadian Nurses and UNRRA -- 8. Launching UNRRA's Nursing Brigade: From the Middle East to Greece -- 9. Nursing with the Enemy: Germany -- 10. Bridge of Sorrows: The Canadian China Contingent -- pt. 4. Life after UNRRA -- 11. Ties That Bind -- 12. Legacies.

Sommario/riassunto

Armies of Peace is the first comprehensive investigation of Canadians' influence on the establishment and operation of The United Nations



Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910372741503321

Autore

Schuurman Bart

Titolo

Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist / Bart Schuurman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-003-69144-7

1-04-078207-8

90-485-3830-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Terrorists - Europe - History - 21st century

Terrorists - Netherlands - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Europe - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Netherlands - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Europe

Terrorism - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Leiden University, 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studying involvement in terrorism -- 3. A history of the Hofstadgroup -- 4. The ideological and organizational nature of the Hofstadgroup -- 5. Structural-level factors: Facilitating and motivating involvement -- 6. Group dynamics I: Initiating and sustaining involvement -- 7. Group dynamics II: Involvement in acts of terrorist violence -- 8. Individual-level analysis I: Cognitive explanations -- 9. Individual-level analysis II: Terrorists as psychologically distinctive -- 10. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How and why do people become involved in European homegrown



jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for causing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004 and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jihadism that arose in Europe in 2004 and is still with us today. Utilizing interviews with former Hofstadgroup participants and the extensive police files on the group, this book overcomes the scarcity of high-quality data that has beset the study of terrorism for decades. The book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism. It stresses that the factors that initiate involvement are separate from those that sustain it, which in turn are again likely to differ from those that bring some individuals to actual acts of terrorism.