Four Years After 11 September: What Can 'Conflict Resolution' Possibly Tell Us About Terrorism?

Shortly after the catastrophic attacks of 11 September 2001, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University -- located not too far from one of the targets, the Pentagon -- convened a meeting of its faculty to discuss "what could we do?" in response to what seemed to be a new form of terrorism; i.e., where the attackers were, for religious and other reasons, prepared to give up their own lives in the infliction of massive death and destruction on "soft targets".