Fight terrorism with science: Scott Atran [1]
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[ Sat. Oct. 2. 2010 ]
"We are fixated on technology and technological success, and we have no sustained or systematic approach to field-based social understanding of our adversaries' motivation, intent, will, and the dreams that drive their strategic vision, however strange those dreams and vision may seem to us."—Anthropologist Scott Atran [4], who believes the quest to end violent political extremism needs more science. (edge.org)
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