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In this short concluding chapter of the first part, I bring all the argumentative strands together to then comment on the ‘action-reaction’ pattern that became obvious: terrorists act, counter-terrorists react – and so do politicians and academics. I argue that an array of various solutions has been offered to break through this cycle – amongst them technology as the proverbial ‘silver bullet’.
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Kilcullen (2016:204) makes this argument specifically for Muslim communities.
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Lehr, P. (2019). Consequences: The Urban Space as a (Limited) Battlespace. In: Counter-Terrorism Technologies. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90924-0_4
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