- AJCongress on Muslim Decree Allowing For Women Suicide Bombers - http://www.ajcongress.org/pages/RELS2001/AUG_2001/aug01_01.htm
Statement by American Jewish Congress Executive Director Phil Baum calling on Muslim and non-Muslim religious leaders to condemn the decree of the Saudi Arabia High Islamic Council that women can serve as suicide bombers.
- ICT: Suicide Terrorism: an Overview - http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=128
Boaz Ganor discusses the definition of a suicide attack, how such attacks are advantageous to terrorist organizations and the perpetrator, characteristics of suicide attackers, and what can be done to stop this terrorism.
- Suicide Terrorism: The New Scourge - http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/1986summer.shtml
Article by Daniel Pipes addresses state support and sponsorship of suicide attacks and the mistaken tendency to ascribe them to Islam, fanaticism, or some other cultural trait.
- FEER: Sri Lanka: Ultimate Sacrifice - http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/Countries/Asia/Texts/SriLanka011.htm
Faced with harassment and economic deprivation, young Tamils are ready to give up their lives and become martyrs of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
- Understanding Suicide Terrorism - http://www.interdisciplines.org/terrorism
An interdisciplinary debate on a target paper 'Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism' by Scott Atran.
- Genesis of Suicide Terrorism - http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/disk0/00/00/03/43/ijn_00000343_00/ijn_00000343_00.pdf
Scott Atran investigates on social factors underlying suicide attacks and the recruitment of suicide bombers. What defenses will and won't work.
- How Israel Creates Suicide Bombers - http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2002/497/497p17.htm
Article by Noam Chomsky spelling out the background under which Palestinians become suicide bombers.
- IPCS - Program on Suicide Terrorism - http://www.suicideterrorism.org
Presents articles, research papers and references on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism. From the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
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