Militant Leadership

Person-Centered Studies from Kashmir
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-764041-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

This book profiles 12 militant leaders responsible for violence in Indian-administered Kashmir to identify effective deradicalization and counterterrorist interventions for global impact. Building off decades of research in cultural psychiatry, political psychology, social psychology, and South Asian Studies, multilingual cultural psychiatrist and psychological researcher Neil Krishan Aggarwal develops a method for analyzing militant leaders by examining their
personality traits, motivations, skills and abilities, and significant life events to ask what propels them into violence. He presents person-centered psychological case studies based on primary sources in Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu to illustrate how leaders frame violence in their own words to
recruit others.
By comparing and contrasting individual, group, and organizational factors of violence, this book proposes evidence-based deradicalization and counterterrorism interventions, bringing the study of political violence in Indian-administered Kashmir into conversation with research trends in Europe and North America. By developing a method for analyzing militant leadership through state-of-the-art scholarship, the book's insights can inform the development of case studies for scholars,
policymakers, and practitioners across geographic regions and disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aggarwal, Neil Krishan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Krishan Aggarwal is a cultural psychiatrist and social scientist who specializes in cross-cultural conflicts and negotiation. After medical school, he completed a residency in psychiatry, a graduate degree in South Asian Studies, and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinically applied medical anthropology. His areas of professional interest include cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology. He conducts research and
teaches in both the Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, where he is a core member of the Committee on Global Thought. He continues to maintain fieldwork in South Asia.