link between family violence and terrorism

["Andres Arroyo" <NDACAN@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a psychologist at Boston University studying family violence.  Does
anyone know of any papers linking family violence (especially child
abuse) with national and international terrorism?
anon.
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Are you proposing a possible link between terrorism and family 
violence at the individual level (i.e. individuals involved in 
terrorist activities are more likely to be also violent within 
the home) or at the societal level (i.e. that is countries with 
higher levels of conflict also experience higher level of other 
violence)?

Andrew Percy
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Andrew Percy
Research Statistician
The Centre for Child Care Research
Queen's University Belfast
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Tel: (028) 9027 4610
Fax: (028) 9068 7416

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hi, andrew.  thanks for your response. i am interested in any connections.
for example, i believe that when nations are at war, violence increases
domestically, including in the home, as well.  i also believe there is
evidence of higher than average  levels of domestic violence in military
families and police officers' families.  and conversely, there is evidence
that experiencing child abuse makes one more likely to engage in later
delinquent activities.  so, i was wondering if anyone had made any connections
between e.g., levels of violence experienced in the home and later likelihood
of involvement in aggressive behaviors against society, including terrorist
acts. and could someone be a terrorist and be  loving and peaceful at home?  i
know the questions sound naive, but it seems to me there should be some
connections and i was wondering if anyone in the field had written anything on
the topic.   any suggestions you have would be appreciated.

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You might consider looking at Bruce Perry's work on PTSD and the impact of
violence on children.  You can find his work at:   www.childtrauma.org
I hope you find this helpful.
John K Kriger

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Please also consider that directionality may work in the opposite way--
that war, terrorism, or brutal dictatorships (also known as state-sponsored
terrorism, such as disappearances, torture of dissidents) may contribute to
violence
in the home. I wrote a couple of little pieces about this based on work I
did in
Chile on connections
between sexual child abuse and the dictatorship. They are quite preliminary
and
buried in small
publications. I can send them to anyone interested. Write me back-channel
if you
are interested.
Lisa Fontes
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I would be very interested in this information too.
Thanks,

Nancy Peddle, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Prevent Child Abuse America
200 South Michigan Avenue, 17th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604.2404
312.663.3520 ext. 120
312.939.8962 fax.
www.preventchildabuse.org
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for those others of you who are interested in this link, a book i am
finding very useful is "The Politics of Denial" by michael millburn and
sherree conrad.

anon.