The Global Threat Of Terror
K.P.S. GILL
The Global Theat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political Linkages focuses on the gravest of contemporary threats, not only to individual nations and the civilised world, but to the long-term survival of the human race itself.
Hardback | 140 x 216mm (5.5 x 8.5") | 276 pp
ISBN 8187553111
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The Global Theat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political Linkages focusses on the gravest of contemporary threats, not only to individual nations and the civilised world, but to the long-term survival of the human race itself. Rejecting the moral ambivalence of the past that has allowed terrorism to grow under the active sponsorship or the benign indifference of a majority of the world’s nations, this volume explores the complex web of terror that has established itself across the globe. Arguing that if democracies are to survive, they must learn to protect and arm themselves against this greatest of modern scourges, it brings specialists from a wide range of disciplines and countries to focus on the institutional structures, processes and tools that will be necessary for the defence of freedom against the catastrophic threat of terror.
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K.P.S. Gill, as director general of police, Punjab, led one of the most successful counter-terrorist operations in the history of terrorism, bringing the state from the verge of disintegration to complete normalcy. He served in the Assam Cadre of the Indian Police Service between 1958 and 1983, handling a range of assignments during periods of extended political strife and the emergence of terrorism in that state. In the 1980s, when Punjab emerged as the most serious threat to India’s integrity since Independence, he was inducted into the state as inspector general of police [Operations] and was eventually elevated to the rank of director general of police [DGP]. In 1988, he planned and executed ‘Operation Black Thunder’, a critical success in the war against terrorism.
After his retirement from the IPS, he has served as a member of the National Security Advisory Board, and of the North-East Study Group of the ministry of home affairs. He is the founding president of the Institute for Conflict Management, publisher and editor of Faultlines: Writings on Conflict & Resolution, and author of Knights of Falsehood (1997), a book exploring the abuse of the Sikh identity and the teachings of the Sikh Gurus by politicians and terrorists in Punjab.
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