Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Suicide terrorism : delineating the construct / Swati Mukherjee, Updesh Kumar, and Manas K. Mandal -- Suicide terrorism explained : a psychosocial approach / Luis de la Corte Ibáñez -- Evolutionary psychological science of suicide terrorism / James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford -- Suicide terrorism as social noise : a communicative perspective / Jonathan Matusitz -- 'Mumbai style' : exploration of a concept / Mark Dechesne -- Suicide bombings : homicidal killing or a weapon of war? / Riaz Hassan -- The psychology of suicide terrorism / Jerrold M. Post ... [et al.] -- The militant Jihadi ideology of martyrdom as short-lived psychological first aid for trauma and loss / Anne Speckhard -- Are suicide terrorists suicidal? / Bruce Bongar, Uri Kugel, and Victoria Kendrick -- The role of military psychologists and psychiatrists in understanding suicide terrorism / Uri Kugel ... [et al.] -- The use and abuse of children/youth in terrorism and suicide bombing / Edna Erez and Anat Berko -- Deterring suicide terrorism / Dushyant Singh.

The book is a comprehensive compilation of articles by experts in the field of suicide terrorism from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on suicide missions. It provides an insightful perspective on suicide terror as a phenomenon and as a process, and suggests psychosocial pathways for understanding the enigma that suicide terror poses. Understanding Suicide Terrorism delves upon the enigmatic issue of suicide terrorism. The book is an interdisciplinary multi-faceted venture that brings together scholarly work from across the world, across cultures and societies on the issue of suicide terror. The common thread weaving through all the articles is the notion of suicide terror as a complex phenomenon that defies easy explanation, prediction or controllability. Informed by theoretical stances of not only psychological sciences, but other social sciences like political science, criminology, military and sociology the book is an insightful reading. --Provided by publisher.