Berto Jongman: Decapitation Does Not Work – Makes Religious Groups MORE Violent

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The Journal of International Policy Solutions

Spring 2008 | Volume 9  40 

Testing The Snake Head Strategy: Does Killing or Capturing its Leaders Reduce a Terrorist Group’s Activity?

EXTRACT:

The result that consistently stood out from this researchwas the propensity of decapitation strikes to cause religious organizations to become substantially more deadly

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