A recent article by Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri
Military action alone will not defeat global terror.
We live with a constant overflow of media stories warning of the dangers surrounding us; from plane crashes and natural disasters to violent conflicts and terrorist attacks edging closer to home. All of these are unsettling and anxiety-inducing, but it is perhaps the latter that we feel most vulnerable to, and concerned by, as we try to understand why Australians, in particular teenagers, are embracing what seems to be a cult-like, nihilistic ideology of death and destruction.