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VOL. XII, Issue 4

Fake Terrorism: Examining Terrorists’ Resort to Hoaxing as a Mode of Attack

The opening article of this issue has been written by invitation of the chairman of the jury of the Terrorism Research Initiative. It summarises some aspects of the doctoral dissertation of Nicole Tishler, “Fake Terrorism: Examining Terrorist Groups’ Resort to Hoaxing as a Mode of Attack” (Carleton University) for which she just won the TRI Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of terrorism studies written in 2017. For more information on the Award, see the Announcement at the end of this issue of Perspectives on Terrorism.

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