The “war on terrorism” can never be won solely by the current administration’s plans to find and destroy terrorists—since any individual, anywhere, at any time, can be- come an active terrorist. It is only by understanding the situational deter- minants of terrorism that programs can be developed to win the hearts and minds of potential terrorists away from destruction and toward creation— not a simple task, but an essential one that requires implementation of social-psychological perspectives and methods in a comprehensive, long- term plan of attitude, value, and behavior change. THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF GOOD AND EVIL, Ch.2 by Paul Zimbardo
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