- National Review: Crossbows and Suicide Bombers - Jonah Goldberg on calling suicide terrorist acts cowardly.
- AJCongress on Muslim Decree Allowing For Women Suicide Bombers - 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.
- USA Today: Devotion, Desire Drive Youths to 'Martyrdom' - Jack Kelley on the secretive world of suicide bombers and the culture that creates them, focusing on Hamas.
- Jane's Intelligence Review: Suicide Terrorism: a Global Threat - Groups that have used this tactic, key characteristics, motiviation, operations, and state responses.
- ICT: Suicide Terrorism: Development and Characteristics - Lecture by Yoram Schweitzer on the history and groups using this tactic, with statistics.
- ICT: Suicide Terrorism: an Overview - 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.
- Christian Science Monitor: Outsmarting Suicide Terrorists - Ehud Sprinzak discusses recent attacks and suggests counter-measures.
- Suicide Terrorism: The New Scourge - 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 - 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 - An interdisciplinary debate on a target paper 'Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism' by Scott Atran.
- Genesis of Suicide Terrorism - 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 - Article by Noam Chomsky spelling out the background under which Palestinians become suicide bombers.
- There Are Many Reasons Why: Suicide Bombers and Martyrs in Palestine - This article, by Lori Allen, examines the reasons why individuals choose to become suicide bombers.
- IPCS - Program on Suicide Terrorism - Presents articles, research papers and references on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism. From the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
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