Graduate Student, Department of War Studies - School of Social Science and Public Policy
Thesis Title: “Anyone Who Hurts Us”: How the Logic of Israel’s “Assassination Policy” Developed during the Aqsa Intifada
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Simon Frankel Pratt
BA (GPA: 3.78), Simon Fraser University; MA (Distinction), King’s College London
Publications:
Refereed:
(forthcoming) 2012. ‘Crossing Off Names: the Logic of Assassination as a Tactic in War.’ Small Wars and Insurgencies, 23(5).
(forthcoming) 2012. ‘“Anyone Who Hurts Us”: How the Logic of Israel’s “Assassination Policy” Developed during the Aqsa Intifada’. Terrorism and Political Violence.
(forthcoming) 2012. Pratt, Simon Frankel, Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Piper Jackson, and Vijay K. Mago “Rebel with Many Causes: A Computational Model of Insurgency” Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2012.
Non-Refereed:
2011. “Islamic Norms and Democratic Accountability: Compatible or Contrary?” The Spectrum, 01 (August).
2010. “What is the difference between Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism? E-IR, 21 December 2010.
In Preparation:
(with Rupert Sutton) ‘Murdering Gangsters? A Strategic Analysis of Loyalist Violence in Northern Ireland’.
‘A Word Apart: closing the gap between practitioner and scholarly definitions for ‘insurgency’
Conferences, Presentations and Talks:
2012. ‘The Tale of the Ethicist Assassins: the Development of Israel’s Assassination Policies during the Second Intifada’. Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Cultures and Societies, Simon Fraser University, 25 March 2012.
2012. ‘Is Humanism a Religion?’ British Columbia Humanists Association and UBC Freethinkers, University of British Columbia, 1 March 2012.
2011. “Algorithms and Bombs: Modeling Terrorism” Modeling Complex Social Systems, IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, 14 October 2011.
2011. “Humanism and the Dilemmas of Contemporary War.” British Columbia Humanists Association, Burnaby Public Library, 3 October 2011.
2011. “Malicious, Mad, or Moronic? The Psychology of Religious Extremism.” Vancouver SkeptiCamp, University of British Columbia, 6 August 2011.
2009. “Israeli Counterterrorism: Finding Security in the Face of an Evolving Terrorist Threat,” History Student Union Undergraduate Conference, Simon Fraser University, 1 March 2009.
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