Harmonie Toros
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harmonie Toros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harmonie |
| FAMILY NAME | Toros |
| SIGNATURE | TOROS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9139-5292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When is a child a child, a ceasefire a ceasefire? Scholarly and personal struggles with expert language
This article has two interconnected but distinct aims. The first is to examine how the lexicon of “essentially contested concepts” has expanded to include until recently uncontroversial “technical terms”. This broadening of discursive contestation, the article argues, has material impacts on the livelihoods of people living in conflict zones. The article focuses particularly on the discursive contestation surrounding the terms “ceasefire”, and “c…
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism
The United Kingdom presents itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT), countering violent extremism (CVE) and preventing violent extremism (PVE).The Action Counters Terrorism Campaign is a public-facing campaign of the U.K. government aimed at raising the public's awareness of how it can support its CT/CVE/PVE efforts.A narrative analysis of the campaign's YouTube channel (2017-2020) reveals a clear dominant narrative that "ordinary people" can…
What the War on Terror leaves behind: An introduction
This article serves as the introduction to a Special Issue of the European Journal of International Security titled ‘What the War on Terror Leaves Behind’. In it, we seek to contextualise and summarise the diverse contributions of this collection, which is animated by four overarching questions: (i) More than 20 years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, is the War on Terror now, finally, over? (ii) What, if any, legacies remain from the post-…
Better researchers, better people? The dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right
The difficulties of empathising with violent perpetrators has preoccupied a small number of social scientists, particularly criminologists and critical security and terrorism scholars. Most of this work examines how researchers can mitigate the impact of engaging with violent perpetrators and minimize any distress this may cause. This article examines whether a deeper empathetic exchange with violent actors - one in which researchers open themsel…
As a Policy Pivot Point in the Security Community: A dialogue
Eamonn Grennan, former terrorism and transnational crime analyst with an international organisation, and Harmonie Toros, reader in international conflict analysis at the University of Kent, have wo
Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten: Contributions, Cases and Future Challenges
Violent International Relations
Can International Relations (IR) be studied without reproducing its violence? This is the central question of this article. To investigate this, the first step is to expose the violence that we argue remains at the heart of our discipline. The article thus begins by exploring the disciplinary practices firmly grounded in relations of coloniality that plague disciplines more broadly and IR in particular. An analysis of IR’s epistemic violence is f…
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
International Society and Islamist Non-State Actors
The Anarchical Society with its state-centric conceptualization of world politics may appear ill equipped to account for the increasing influence of non-state actors. However, despite this state-centrism, this chapter argues that Bull’s concept of international society constitutes a useful interpretative framework to account for the discourse and practice of such actors. The essay focuses on the organization Islamic State, which offers an example…
Is Alive and Well” or How Critical Terrorism Studies Has Sustained the 9/11 Narrative
This article argues that despite engaging in a powerful critique of the construction of the attacks of 11 September 2001 (or “9/11”) as temporal break, critical terrorism scholars have sustained and reproduced this same construction of “9/11”. Through a systematic analysis of the research articles published in Critical Studies on Terrorism, this article illustrates how critical scholars have overall failed to extricate themselves from this domina…
English, R. Does terrorism work? A history
Don’t judge a book by its cover, they say, and when it comes to Professor Richard English’s new book, Does Terrorism Work? A History, they are absolutely right. The balaclava-clad individual pointi
Introduction: 10 Years of Critical Studies on Terrorism
When the editors of Critical Studies on Terrorism wrote their introduction to the inaugural issue in April 2008, they noted that “terrorism” was a “growth industry” which generated a huge amount of social and political activity, and affected an extensive list of areas of social and cultural life (Breen Smyth et al, 2008: 1). They also noted that there was a yawning gap between the actual material threat posed by terrorists, and the level of inves…
Dialogue, praxis and the state: A response to Richard Jackson
The article argues in favour of an engagement with state actors for critical terrorism scholars, challenging Richard Jackson's assertion that such engagement necessarily involves co-optation
Researching Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies: Interaction, Synthesis and Opposition
This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. The volume presents theoretically- and empirically-informed contributions, which shed light on whether the two fields can inform each other on issues of mutual interest and importance. The book examines key themes including the conceptualisation(s) of peace and violence; the exceptionalisation of terrorist violence; the relationship betw…
Confessions of a terrorist: A novel , by Richard Jackson
P:You know what set me on this path, what made me become a terrorist, as you call me? M:What? P:It is very simple ... you did. (61)Richard Jackson’s novel Confessions of a Terrorist does a remarkable
Collective evil and individual pathology: The depoliticization of violence against Afghan civilians
From paramilitarism to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: An interview with Noel Large
The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference titled Terrorism and Peace and Conflict Studies: Investigating the Crossroad. The conference was organised by the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at the University of Kent and the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group of the British International Studies Association and was held at the University of Kent from 10 to 11 September 2012. The conference aimed to…
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach
Objectives. In this prospective study, we intend to establish the psychometric properties of ICOAP for its use in studies involving the Hellenic population. Methods. SF-36 Health Survey was used as a standard against ICOAP scores from a sample of 89 patients (mean age: 71.07, 69 females) with hip and knee OA pain who underwent 2 treatment cycles of 4 intra-articular injections of sodium hyaluronate, separated by a 12-week medication-free time int…
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation
Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "negotiating with terrorists" is so often shunned by decision-makers and scholars as a policy response, concluding that such objections are primarily base…
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach
Terrorism’ and the media: An interview with Fadi Ismail
Terrorists, scholars and ordinary people: Confronting terrorism studies with field experiences
Fieldwork in the study of terrorism remains the exception, allowing for scores of publications to be produced each year with little or no contact with the perpetrators of terrorist violence and scarce direct observation of the social realities in which it occurs. While examining some of the serious drawbacks and pitfalls such research can entail, this article makes a case for more fieldwork in terrorism studies, arguing that it can bring greater …
We Don't Negotiate with Terrorists: Legitimacy and Complexity in Terrorist Conflicts
A key objection raised by terrorism scholars and policymakers against engaging in negotiations with terrorists is that it legitimizes terrorist groups, their goals and their means. Talking to them would serve only to incite more violence and weaken the fabric of democratic states, they argue. With the emergence of Al-Qaeda and its complex transnational structure, many have added another objection: Who does one talk to? Faced with such a multiface…
We Don't Negotiate with Terrorists: Legitimacy and Complexity in Terrorist Conflicts
A key objection raised by terrorism scholars and policymakers against engaging in negotiations with terrorists is that it legitimizes terrorist groups, their goals and their means. Talking to them would serve only to incite more violence and weaken the fabric of democratic states, they argue. With the emergence of Al-Qaeda and its complex transnational structure, many have added another objection: Who does one talk to? Faced with such a multiface…
Dialogue, praxis and the state: A response to Richard Jackson
The article argues in favour of an engagement with state actors for critical terrorism scholars, challenging Richard Jackson's assertion that such engagement necessarily involves co-optation
Is Alive and Well” or How Critical Terrorism Studies Has Sustained the 9/11 Narrative
This article argues that despite engaging in a powerful critique of the construction of the attacks of 11 September 2001 (or “9/11”) as temporal break, critical terrorism scholars have sustained and reproduced this same construction of “9/11”. Through a systematic analysis of the research articles published in Critical Studies on Terrorism, this article illustrates how critical scholars have overall failed to extricate themselves from this domina…
Terrorists, scholars and ordinary people: Confronting terrorism studies with field experiences
Fieldwork in the study of terrorism remains the exception, allowing for scores of publications to be produced each year with little or no contact with the perpetrators of terrorist violence and scarce direct observation of the social realities in which it occurs. While examining some of the serious drawbacks and pitfalls such research can entail, this article makes a case for more fieldwork in terrorism studies, arguing that it can bring greater …
Introduction: 10 Years of Critical Studies on Terrorism
When the editors of Critical Studies on Terrorism wrote their introduction to the inaugural issue in April 2008, they noted that “terrorism” was a “growth industry” which generated a huge amount of social and political activity, and affected an extensive list of areas of social and cultural life (Breen Smyth et al, 2008: 1). They also noted that there was a yawning gap between the actual material threat posed by terrorists, and the level of inves…
Collective evil and individual pathology: The depoliticization of violence against Afghan civilians
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism
The United Kingdom presents itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT), countering violent extremism (CVE) and preventing violent extremism (PVE).The Action Counters Terrorism Campaign is a public-facing campaign of the U.K. government aimed at raising the public's awareness of how it can support its CT/CVE/PVE efforts.A narrative analysis of the campaign's YouTube channel (2017-2020) reveals a clear dominant narrative that "ordinary people" can…
As a Policy Pivot Point in the Security Community: A dialogue
Eamonn Grennan, former terrorism and transnational crime analyst with an international organisation, and Harmonie Toros, reader in international conflict analysis at the University of Kent, have wo
Violent International Relations
Can International Relations (IR) be studied without reproducing its violence? This is the central question of this article. To investigate this, the first step is to expose the violence that we argue remains at the heart of our discipline. The article thus begins by exploring the disciplinary practices firmly grounded in relations of coloniality that plague disciplines more broadly and IR in particular. An analysis of IR’s epistemic violence is f…
Better researchers, better people? The dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right
The difficulties of empathising with violent perpetrators has preoccupied a small number of social scientists, particularly criminologists and critical security and terrorism scholars. Most of this work examines how researchers can mitigate the impact of engaging with violent perpetrators and minimize any distress this may cause. This article examines whether a deeper empathetic exchange with violent actors - one in which researchers open themsel…
Terrorists, scholars and ordinary people: Confronting terrorism studies with field experiences
Fieldwork in the study of terrorism remains the exception, allowing for scores of publications to be produced each year with little or no contact with the perpetrators of terrorist violence and scarce direct observation of the social realities in which it occurs. While examining some of the serious drawbacks and pitfalls such research can entail, this article makes a case for more fieldwork in terrorism studies, arguing that it can bring greater …
We Don't Negotiate with Terrorists: Legitimacy and Complexity in Terrorist Conflicts
A key objection raised by terrorism scholars and policymakers against engaging in negotiations with terrorists is that it legitimizes terrorist groups, their goals and their means. Talking to them would serve only to incite more violence and weaken the fabric of democratic states, they argue. With the emergence of Al-Qaeda and its complex transnational structure, many have added another objection: Who does one talk to? Faced with such a multiface…
Terrorism’ and the media: An interview with Fadi Ismail
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach
Objectives. In this prospective study, we intend to establish the psychometric properties of ICOAP for its use in studies involving the Hellenic population. Methods. SF-36 Health Survey was used as a standard against ICOAP scores from a sample of 89 patients (mean age: 71.07, 69 females) with hip and knee OA pain who underwent 2 treatment cycles of 4 intra-articular injections of sodium hyaluronate, separated by a 12-week medication-free time int…
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation
Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "negotiating with terrorists" is so often shunned by decision-makers and scholars as a policy response, concluding that such objections are primarily base…
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach
From paramilitarism to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: An interview with Noel Large
The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference titled Terrorism and Peace and Conflict Studies: Investigating the Crossroad. The conference was organised by the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at the University of Kent and the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group of the British International Studies Association and was held at the University of Kent from 10 to 11 September 2012. The conference aimed to…
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
Confessions of a terrorist: A novel , by Richard Jackson
P:You know what set me on this path, what made me become a terrorist, as you call me? M:What? P:It is very simple ... you did. (61)Richard Jackson’s novel Confessions of a Terrorist does a remarkable
Collective evil and individual pathology: The depoliticization of violence against Afghan civilians
Researching Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies: Interaction, Synthesis and Opposition
This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. The volume presents theoretically- and empirically-informed contributions, which shed light on whether the two fields can inform each other on issues of mutual interest and importance. The book examines key themes including the conceptualisation(s) of peace and violence; the exceptionalisation of terrorist violence; the relationship betw…
Dialogue, praxis and the state: A response to Richard Jackson
The article argues in favour of an engagement with state actors for critical terrorism scholars, challenging Richard Jackson's assertion that such engagement necessarily involves co-optation
International Society and Islamist Non-State Actors
The Anarchical Society with its state-centric conceptualization of world politics may appear ill equipped to account for the increasing influence of non-state actors. However, despite this state-centrism, this chapter argues that Bull’s concept of international society constitutes a useful interpretative framework to account for the discourse and practice of such actors. The essay focuses on the organization Islamic State, which offers an example…
Is Alive and Well” or How Critical Terrorism Studies Has Sustained the 9/11 Narrative
This article argues that despite engaging in a powerful critique of the construction of the attacks of 11 September 2001 (or “9/11”) as temporal break, critical terrorism scholars have sustained and reproduced this same construction of “9/11”. Through a systematic analysis of the research articles published in Critical Studies on Terrorism, this article illustrates how critical scholars have overall failed to extricate themselves from this domina…
English, R. Does terrorism work? A history
Don’t judge a book by its cover, they say, and when it comes to Professor Richard English’s new book, Does Terrorism Work? A History, they are absolutely right. The balaclava-clad individual pointi
Introduction: 10 Years of Critical Studies on Terrorism
When the editors of Critical Studies on Terrorism wrote their introduction to the inaugural issue in April 2008, they noted that “terrorism” was a “growth industry” which generated a huge amount of social and political activity, and affected an extensive list of areas of social and cultural life (Breen Smyth et al, 2008: 1). They also noted that there was a yawning gap between the actual material threat posed by terrorists, and the level of inves…
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten: Contributions, Cases and Future Challenges
Violent International Relations
Can International Relations (IR) be studied without reproducing its violence? This is the central question of this article. To investigate this, the first step is to expose the violence that we argue remains at the heart of our discipline. The article thus begins by exploring the disciplinary practices firmly grounded in relations of coloniality that plague disciplines more broadly and IR in particular. An analysis of IR’s epistemic violence is f…
As a Policy Pivot Point in the Security Community: A dialogue
Eamonn Grennan, former terrorism and transnational crime analyst with an international organisation, and Harmonie Toros, reader in international conflict analysis at the University of Kent, have wo
Better researchers, better people? The dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right
The difficulties of empathising with violent perpetrators has preoccupied a small number of social scientists, particularly criminologists and critical security and terrorism scholars. Most of this work examines how researchers can mitigate the impact of engaging with violent perpetrators and minimize any distress this may cause. This article examines whether a deeper empathetic exchange with violent actors - one in which researchers open themsel…
What the War on Terror leaves behind: An introduction
This article serves as the introduction to a Special Issue of the European Journal of International Security titled ‘What the War on Terror Leaves Behind’. In it, we seek to contextualise and summarise the diverse contributions of this collection, which is animated by four overarching questions: (i) More than 20 years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, is the War on Terror now, finally, over? (ii) What, if any, legacies remain from the post-…
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism
The United Kingdom presents itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT), countering violent extremism (CVE) and preventing violent extremism (PVE).The Action Counters Terrorism Campaign is a public-facing campaign of the U.K. government aimed at raising the public's awareness of how it can support its CT/CVE/PVE efforts.A narrative analysis of the campaign's YouTube channel (2017-2020) reveals a clear dominant narrative that "ordinary people" can…
When is a child a child, a ceasefire a ceasefire? Scholarly and personal struggles with expert language
This article has two interconnected but distinct aims. The first is to examine how the lexicon of “essentially contested concepts” has expanded to include until recently uncontroversial “technical terms”. This broadening of discursive contestation, the article argues, has material impacts on the livelihoods of people living in conflict zones. The article focuses particularly on the discursive contestation surrounding the terms “ceasefire”, and “c…
Political science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Terrorism (18 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (5 works)