Victims Of Terrorism Research Articles

Restorative Justice for Victims of Terrorism: Healing Beyond Retribution

This research investigates the application of restorative justice in Indonesia's approach to terrorism, highlighting its potential to transform traditional justice methods. It focuses on the benefits of restorative justice in empowering victims, promoting offender accountability, and enhancing community trust. The study acknowledges the challenges in implementation, including legal, security, and cultural barriers, as well as resource constraints. Proposed solutions involve legal reforms, heightened security protocols, and increased public awareness. The conclusion emphasizes that restorative justice, with its emphasis on healing and community engagement, is a crucial step towards a more inclusive and effective response to terrorism's societal impacts in Indonesia.

BUBANJ MEMORIAL PARK: A MEMORIAL TO THE VICTIMS OF NAZI TERROR AND MASS EXECUTIONS IN WORLD WAR II

The "Bubanj" Memorial complex, locate on Bubanj Hill at the outskirts of Niš, was built with the aim of marking the site of mass executions of the innocent victims of Nazism in the Second World War. It is a symbol of suffering but also of resistance, struggle and desire for freedom, embodied in the symbolic depiction of three huge clenched fists. The "Three fists” symbolize resistance and defiance against fascism. They are a recurrent reminder of the importance of freedom as the supreme human value. The paper first briefly presents the eugenics policy, which was the ideological basis of Nazism and ferocious Nazi crimes. Then, the authors outline the historical circumstances leading to the establishment of the Concentration Camp Crveni krst in Niš and Bubanj Hill as the execution site. The central part of the paper focuses on the construction of the Bubanj memorial complex, its importance in the post-war Yugoslav society, and its current position on the cultural map of Serbia. While calling attention to the agony sustained by victims of Nazi terror in these parts of Serbia, the authors highlight the strength and resilience of the people who endeavored to preserve and defend freedom and right to dignified life as ultimate human values.

Lack of Identity, Ambiguity and Ambivalence as Reflected in The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

This study tries to examine lack of identity, ambiguity and ambivalence. The Pakistanis identity is progressively jeopardized after 9/11 state than it was ever previously. It is clear that the Pakistanis allocated to different groups at war with each other on political, spiritual and sectional issues. The paper sheds light on the main character, Changez for being strong and not being influenced by crucial situations he encountered. Hamid tries to show the real face of American after 9/11 events and how they quickly attribute false propaganda against Muslims. To have one sole national personality is basically inconceivable in such a circumstance, when Pakistan isn't just occupied with war on terrorism but additionally a victim of terror. Individuals truthful to various crowds for the most part separated into dissidents and fundamentalists feel themselves minimized in their own general public. They are looked as 'others' in their own nation. 9/11 changed the picture of the Muslim world into fundamentalists and psychological militants until the end of time. Another fixation on Pakistani authors is the lack of principles, political and holy abuse of normal crowds, cruel assaults, and sectarianism and the subsequent growth of a character’s awareness of his individuality in an estranged social structure. Hamid endeavors to prove identity and explain ambiguity and ambivalence in society of different cultures. He shows love and peace to all people and he rejects all forms of violence. The paper is not about criticizing violence or bigotry. It is about protecting individual rights. Key words: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, fundamentalists, lack of Identity, post 9/11, and Reliability

The CAPE (Compassion, Assertive Action, Pragmatism, and Evidence) vulnerability index - Second Edition: Putting mental health into foreign policy to address globalization, conflict, climate change, and natural disasters.

The CAPE Vulnerability Index serves as a worldwide foreign policy indicator that implies which countries should get assistance first. It provides an evidence-based, well-structured, and well-reasoned strategy for employing aid in bilateral arrangements with mental health as a basis. The second edition of the CAPE VI has been developed to identify which nations should get priority foreign aid. We considered various indices or measures at the country level reflecting the average national health status or factors influencing public health. To make our choice, we used 26 internationally accessible and verified indicators. For the study, we have scored the countries according to these indices and prioritized those with the worst scores. The CAPE Vulnerability Index is based on the number of times a country is ranked among the low-scoring nations. It is based on nine parameters and is an independent measure even though there may be a correlation with similar indices such as life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years(DALYs), physician numbers, and gross domestic product(GDP). We concluded that low-scoring countries were fragile or failed states, such as nations where governments lack complete oversight or power, are often oppressive and corrupt, have allegations of violations of human rights, or are marked by political turmoil in different forms, drawbacks from severe environmental damage, severe impoverishment, inequalities, cultural and racial divisions, cannot supply fundamental amenities, are victims of terrorism, and so on. To address these essential problems impacting fragile nations, administrations, aid donors, local organizations, mental health specialists, and associations should collaborate.

Terror against Executive Police Offi cials of the Belarusian Provinces under the Conditions of the January Uprising of 1863

The victims of political terror against police offi cials in the Belarusian provinces were employees of the district police, the vast majority of which were lower ranks. At the same time, the issue of the exact number of victims of the terror by the rebels still remains open. Most of all, political terror manifested itself in the Kovno province, and least of all – in Vitebsk and Mogilev, where any cases of political assassinations were not registered

Recovering the offender for society

In October 2011, the terrorist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) announced a definitive cease fire. Just a few months prior, restorative justice experiences had started between imprisoned former ETA members and victims of terrorism along with coexistence workshops in the Nanclares prison, events geared towards trying to heal wounds in the aftermath of political violence. Although these are mainly private and personal experiences, with emotional effects in the participants in the encounters, they may also facilitate projects of wider social reconciliation. This article points out the lessons we have learned during these experiences as far as ex-ETA militants are concerned and the potential of these restorative justice practices for active responsibility, individual healing and reintegration in the community.

The power of life stories in peace-making and on the path to restoration: An interview with Iñaki García Arrizabalaga and Maixabel Lasa

This piece offers two brief interviews with Iñaki García Arrizabalaga and Maixabel Lasa, two victims of terrorism who suffered the murder of their father and husband respectively. They are two people of exceptional human quality, who far from feeding any hatred or desire for revenge, have done extraordinary work on a personal and social level to contribute to the pacification of Basque society. In addition to their pedagogical work through talks and meetings in various educational and cultural institutions, they have participated in restorative encounters with terrorist perpetrators. In addition, both have participated in different peace organizations in the Basque Country. After a brief introduction on the importance of life history as a qualitative research method, some fragments of the interviews conducted are offered. The responses include reflections on the social impact of the film Maixabel (Bollain 2021) which portrays episodes in the life of Maixabel Lasa.

Spanish state terrorism: Writing the story of its violence

Basque society has been exposed to the terrorist violence of the Spanish state during and after the dictatorship and to that of ETA until its definitive cessation of violence on 21 October 2011. The search for the truth demands revealing the existence of state terrorism, regardless of how some historians attempt to diminish its gravity. In this article, the focus will be on cultural productions that make the writing of the history of terrorism in Spain more nuanced. The cultural texts studied include Pablo Malo’s film, Lasa eta Zabala (‘Lasa and Zabala’) (2014), Ion Arretxe’s novel Intxaurrondo: La sombra del nogal (‘Intxaurrondo: The shade of the walnut tree’) (2015), Miguel Ángel Llamas and Amaia Merino’s documentary, Non dago Mikel? (‘Where is Mikel?’) (2020) and the Centro Memorial de las Víctimas del Terrorismo (‘Memorial Center for the Victims of Terrorism’), which opened its doors in 2021.

Paradigm of Law and Human Rights as a Protection of Academic Freedom in Indonesia

Various attacks on academic freedom in Indonesia are like an iceberg phenomenon. The conditions are very worrying but not surprising, considering that repressive practices in the academic world are common in Indonesia. How is the legal mechanism of human rights and theoretical views responding to the threats to academic freedom in Indonesia. This research uses socio-legal study methods to regarding academic freedom in Indonesia and the patterns that follow. The purpose of this research is to rehabilitate and recover victims of terror and threats to academic freedom and ensure that similar cases are not repeated. Various models of threats and attacks on academic freedom, such as: the use of the judiciary to repress academics, banning and followed by sweeping of left books, prohibition or sanctions on teaching methods, forced dissolution of scientific discussions/forums both by campuses and by law enforcement officials and even groups of thugs, Stigmatization which was followed by violence against lecturers and students, as well as threats of violence and terror and even followed by attempts of persecution became a very worrying problem in the situation of academic freedom in Indonesia. Equally important, there is a need for a human rights legal system related to academic freedom that is institutionalized, strong, and binding so that it becomes a code of conduct for exercising academic freedom in Indonesia.

International institutional support for victims of terrorism

International institutional support for victims of terrorism

Doctor's role in determining wounds qualification of terrorism victims

Introduction: The terms terrorist (perpetrator) and terrorism (action) are derived from the Latin word “terrere” which means to shake or vibrate. The European Convention first discussed the definition of terrorism on the Suppression of Terrorism (ECST) in Europe in 1977; there was a paradigm expansion in the meaning of Crime against State to Crime against Humanity. Crime against Humanity includes criminal acts committed to create a situation that causes individuals, groups, and the general public to be in a tense atmosphere. Necessary to have a clinical forensic examination to determine the degree of injury suffered by victims of terrorist criminal acts as a reference for providing compensation from the state. Case Report: On Friday, October 23rd, 2020, at 09.25 a.m. at the Bhayangkara Hospital Emergency Installation, examinations were conducted on 4 men. The basis for the examination is based on a written request from the LPSK with the number: R-1176/1a.5.1/LPSK/10/2020 on October 21st, 2020. Discussion: There is a mechanism in the forensic examination for the victims of terrorism crimes. The process for obtaining compensation can be submitted by victims of terrorism crimes, their families, or their heirs. LPSK will conduct a substantive examination and calculate the losses suffered by victims of terrorism crimes. Conclusion: Regarding the provisions of these laws and regulations, the Indonesian Forensic Doctors Association (PDFI) cooperates with LPSK, as stated in the cooperation agreement. Key Words: doctor’s role, wound qualification, terrorism victims.

Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the Global Wire Services: A Framing Analysis

Pakistan has become a victim of terrorism after its involvement in the ongoing war on terror. The country has lost thousands of civilians and security personnel in this American-led war. Though, Pakistan has always been treated negatively by the media organizations of elite nations. Operation Zarb-e-Azb was a combined military action of the Pakistan army against the armed insurgent groups in North Waziristan which was launched in the year 2014. The current study attempted to examine the framing of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in global wire services. For this purpose, AFP, AP and Reuters were selected. Through the technique of convenient sampling, a total of 300 news items from the entire period of operation were selected for analysis.Quantitative as well as qualitative content analysis and interpretive analysis have been used as a research design for this study. The results indicated that the global wire services framed the news stories of military operations in a positive way. The terrorism and militant threat frame was more dominant in global wires as compared to other frames. The results also revealed that the global wires framed this operation differently by representing the foreign policy and interests of their respective states.

Violences sexuelles liées au terrorisme : prise en charge psychologique des femmes yézidies en Irak

From 2018 to 2022, the Lebanese Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT-L), in collaboration with the United Nations (United Nations Office for Drug and Crime [UNODC]) and with the support of the government of the Netherlands, implemented a project to provide psychological care to victims of terrorism in Iraq. Ninety Yezidi women participated in this program. Each one of the participants had experienced sexual violence during the takeover of part of the Iraqi territory by the jihadists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) between 2014 and 2018. Following a semi-structured interview, these Yezidi women first participated in experience-sharing sessions for three consecutive days. Then, they benefited from an individual psychological follow-up for a period of 6 months. Over this ten-year period, the association's team has developed a protocol that combines art therapy with group and individual psychotherapy. The care is evaluated on a regular basis. From the first interview, the psychologist uses the results of the Traumaq, an evaluation tool that assesses trauma-related symptoms. Subsequently, the PCL-5 scale is used to measure the evolution of the symptoms. A considerable support that is studied in association with the participant's life story and the social, personal, and professional evolution of each person. At the end of the treatment, significant changes were observed, particularly for criteria B and D of the DSM-5. We recorded a reduction in intrusive memories, as well as an improvement in emotional and physical reactions to these memories. Feelings of guilt were reduced. Significant improvement in sleep and concentration was also noted. Participants experienced an improvement in their self-esteem, with a desire to pursue studies and be involved in active projects in their community. However, anger about injustice and a lack of compensation remained palpable. This work culminated in the accompaniment of a delegation of these women to make their voices heard at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In this paper, we will highlight the art therapy aspect of this program, especially that of using clay as the medium for the art therapy.

Designing the memory of terror, negotiating national memory: The National September 11 Memorial and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

This essay analyzes two American memorials that were built in the post-9/11 era: the National September 11 Memorial in New York City, which opened in 2011, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2018. Both of these memorials pay tribute to victims of terrorism, the first to victims of foreign terrorism and the second to victims of lynchings, a form of racial terrorism within the United States. This essay argues that these two memorials define the beginning and end of the post-9/11 era, from memorialization as a nationalist enterprise to memorialization as a reckoning on race that demands the destruction of racist monuments and the construction of memorials to victims of racist violence. It looks in particular at how the modern designs of these two memorials produce very different kinds of experiences of memory to tell distinct narratives of victimhood, loss, and nation.

Precarious Commons: Archiving Soviet Terror in Contemporary Russia

ABSTRACT Using the example of Memorial, Russia’s oldest nongovernmental organization, this essay develops the concept of “precarious commons” to describe the continuous and uncertain process of creating an open-access digital resource and maintaining a community around it. In 2022, Memorial became one of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for its decades-long efforts to open official archives, to collect and solicit testimony from survivors and families of victims of Soviet terror, and to promote democratic values and human rights in public life. These activities illustrate precarious cultural commoning: ever threatened by bureaucratic enclosure, political and cultural amnesia, and outright persecution. The organization’s extragovernmental, mostly volunteer-driven work has established an open digital archive of state repressions as well as a vital space for educating a new generation of memory activists and imagining a different collective future.

Protection and support of terrorism victims in the criminal proceedings in Kosovo: The compliance with standards of the Madrid Memorandum

Victims of terrorism can be considered a special category within the broader and more general group of “victims of crime”. In recent decades, there has been an international trend to develop more specific treatment, both in legal and practical terms, to address their particular needs in unfortunate times of intensification and sophistication of terrorist attacks, with a correlative increase in the harmful consequences for an increasing number of victims of terrorism. At the international level, one such instrument is the Madrid Memorandum, which contains relevant guidelines that serve as a reference for States, who can draw inspiration from them when designing their national standards of protection and support for victims of terrorism. This paper aims to critically analyze the legal framework applicable in Kosovo on the issue of protection and support of victims of terrorism from the pre-trial phase, through criminal proceedings, and after the completion of criminal proceedings, with special emphasis aiming to analyze the compliance of these rules with standards of the Madrid Memorandum. The paper identifies three areas in which the applicable legal framework for the protection and support of victims of terrorism in criminal proceedings needs to be harmonised with the Madrid Memorandum’s standards.

Sexual violence related to terrorism: Psychological care for Yazidi women in Iraq

ObjectivesFrom 2018 to 2022, the Lebanese Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT-L), in collaboration with the United Nations (UNODC, United Nations Office for Drug and Crime) and with the support of the government of the Netherlands, conducted a project to provide psychological care to victims of terrorism in Iraq. PatientsNinety Yezidi women participated in this program. Each participant had experienced sexual violence during the control of part of Iraqi territory by the jihadists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) between 2014 and 2018. After a semi-structured interview, these Yezidi women first participated in experience-sharing sessions for three consecutive days. Then, they benefited from an individual psychological follow-up for 6 months. Materials and methodsOver the last ten years, the association's team has developed a protocol that combines art therapy with group and individual psychotherapy. The care is regularly evaluated. From the first interview, the psychologist uses the results of the Traumaq. An evaluation tool that assesses trauma-related symptoms. Subsequently, the PCL5 scale is used to measure the evolution of the symptoms. A considerable support that is studied in resonance with the life story and the social, personal, and professional evolution of each person. ResultsAt the end of the psychological support sessions, significant changes were observed, particularly for criteria B and D of the DSM-5. We recorded a reduction in intrusive memories, as well as an improvement in emotional and physical reactions to these memories. Feelings of guilt had subsided and a significant improvement in sleep and concentration was noted. Participants experienced an improvement in their self-esteem, with a desire to pursue studies and active projects in their community. However, anger regarding injustice and lack of compensation remains palpable. This work culminated in supporting and accompanying these women in making their voices heard at the United Nations headquarters in New York. ConclusionsIn this paper, we will highlight the beneficial aspects of art therapy used in this program. We will emphasize the value of clay art therapy particular within this context.

International Terrorism: Attributes and Forms

The authors analyze the features of international terrorism. It is proven that international («external») terrorism should be recognized as an independent legal phenomenon, separate from the domestic («internal») terrorism. The authors agree with those researchers who consider international terrorism to be one of the varieties of terrorism, but believe that the suggested attributes of international terrorism should be modified. While the territorial attribute and the attribute of citizenship of the culprit generally do not raise any objections, the authors argue in support of their position regarding the specific features of the victims of international terrorism, they state that such features could be anything as long as they define a group of people that is different from the group to which the members of an international terrorist organization belong: religious, racial, ethnic, national, linguistic, political features, etc. Another attribute supported in the article is the recognition of the terrorist organization as an international one by the national judicial (law enforcement) bodies. This allows the authors to suggest that the current legislation of the Russian Federation should include a procedure for recognizing a terrorist organization as an international one. This suggestion takes into consideration the fact that the FSB, which keeps a Unified Federal List of Terrorist Organizations, differentiates between Russian, foreign and international terrorist organizations in its practical work. The authors conclude that international terrorism is characterizes by such attributes as unlawfulness, territoriality, certain citizenship of the culprit and (or) the victim of terrorism, identification of the victim with certain groups of people, recognition of the subject of terrorism (terrorist organization) as an international one. It is suggested that the Federal Law «On Counteracting Terrorism» should be supplemented by the norm that describes the concept of an «international terrorist organization». It is proven that the recognition of a terrorist organization as an international one (or a foreign one) should be exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. As for the analysis of the forms of international terrorism, it is argued that the most dangerous ones are «Islamist» (religious) and «right» (racist, Nazi) terrorism.

Metformin counters oxidative stress and mitigates adverse effects of radiation exposure: An overview.

Metformin (1,1-dimethylbiguanidine hydrochloride) (MF) is a drug that has long been in use for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and recently is coming into use in the radiation therapy of cancer and other conditions. Exposure to ionizing radiation disturbs the redox homeostasis of cells and causes damage to proteins, membranes, and mitochondria, destroying a number of biological processes. After irradiation, MF activates cellular antioxidant and repair systems by signaling to eliminate the harmful consequences of disruption of redox homeostasis. The use of MF in the treatment of the negative effects of irradiation has great potential in medical patients after radiotherapy and in victims of nuclear accidents or radiologic terrorism.

Counterterrorism Cooperation Strategy Of The National Counterterrorism Agency With The Ministry Of Defense In Tackling Female Terrorists In Indonesia

The relationship between women and terrorism has undergone a significant shift in perspective. Initially, women were associated with being victims of terrorism, but now they play a role in various activities within terrorism. As a result, the burden of rehabilitating female terrorist inmates is disproportionately placed on correctional institutions. Therefore, National Counterterrorism Agency recognizes the importance of implementing mitigation, prevention, and deradicalization programs to have a more effective impact. This study uses qualitative research methods, including interviews and document analysis, and data validation through triangulation. The aim of this research is to examine the implementation, inhibiting and supporting factors, as well as the cooperation strategy between National Counterterrorism Agency and the Ministry of Defense in countering female terrorism in Indonesia. The results of this research first show the implementation of national defense in combating female terrorism in Indonesia through the implementation of the National Defense Awareness Program and increasing cooperation with local governments, TNI, Polri, and other parties. Second, regulatory obstacles are the inhibiting factor, while the supporting factor is the collaboration and coordination with relevant institutions to facilitate the handling of female terrorism in Indonesia. Third, the cooperation strategy of deradicalization between National Counterterrorism Agency and the Ministry of Defense prepares and anticipates potential terrorist threats that can endanger national security, public safety, state sovereignty, and the integrity of all regions of Indonesia..