The authorities have released pictures of men implicated in the Brussels bombings, one of brusswhom is thought to be still at large. But does the current media analysis mislead as to who is ultimately responsible?
A new study, recently published by Sofia Pinero Kluch from the Gallup public opinion research company, based in Washington, DC, and Alan Vaux, a psychologist at Southern Illinois University, USA, has uncovered some novel and even shocking findings, in a survey of attitudes to terrorism across the world.
This research appears to suggest we should perhaps look beyond individuals, and instead locate causes in communities and cultures.
The investigation, entitled, “Culture and Terrorism: The Role of Cultural Factors in Worldwide Terrorism (1970–2013),” arose out of an analysis that terrorism seems to spring more frequently from certain countries or cultures.
[For more of this story, written by Dr. Raj Persaud and Dr. Peter Bruggen, go to http://pro.psychcentral.com/th...rrorism/0013343.html]
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