Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday Massacre
Lessons for the International Community
$41.27
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2023
Summary
With political leaders compromising national security for personal gain, Islamic State exploited security gaps and loopholes and staged a catastrophic terrorist attack in Sri Lanka. Radical Islam is an enduring global challenge that presents a national and international security threat. Instigation by hate preachers, inadequate government, societal attention, religious and reciprocal radicalization have allowed this threat to manifest into terrorist violence. Extremist ideologies have infiltr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814954631 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9814954632 |
| Author: | Rohan Gunaratna |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 137mm x 215mm |
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Rohan Gunaratna
Rohan Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. He was the founder of Singapore’s International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.
He received his Masters from the University of Notre Dame in the US, where he was a Hesburgh Scholar, and his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in the UK, where he was a British Chevening Scholar. A former Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Gunaratna was invited to testify on the structure of al Qaeda before the 9⁄11 Commission.
The author of 20 books, including Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (University of Columbia Press), Gunaratna edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London. He is a trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities, and military counter-terrorism units, and has interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other conflict zones. For advancing international security cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award.
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