Faculty Viewpoints on Terrorism

The opinions expressed in these commentaries are those of individual faculty and not of Duke University. The commentaries are copyrighted by each author and may be reprinted only with the author's permission.

Faculty are invited to submit commentaries, and instructions are available at the bottom of this page

• Arms and the Law 10/18/01
  • Scott Silliman - Director
  • Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Election reform? All has changed 10/21/01
  • Michael Munger - Chairman
  • Department of Political Science

• Punish, Protect, Prevent, Prepare 10/12/01
  • Bruce Jentleson - Director
  • Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

• The United Nations: An Essential Instrument against Terror - 10/1/01
  • Robert O. Keohane - James B. Duke Professor of Political Science

• To Maintain That Support, Show Us What Success Means 10/3/01
  • Peter Feaver - Associate Professor
  • Department of Political Science

• True Jihad Beyond the Tragedy 10/5/01
  • Bruce Lawrence - chairman
  • Department of Religion

• Muslims Must Not Be Apologists For Terror 10/8/01
  • Ebrahim Moosa - professor of Islamic Studies
  • Department of Religoin

• Identifying Foes and Friends in a War against Terrorism - 10/3/01
  • Albert F. Eldridge, Jr. - Associate Professor
  • Department of Political Science

• Wars, Its Machine and the Women Who Fight Them - 10/17/01
  • Ariel Dorfman - Professor
  • Literature and Latin American Studies

• Wars, Its Machine and the Women Who Fight Them - 10/17/01
  • Miriam Cooke - Professor of Arabic
  • Asian and African Languages and Literature

• After Sept. 11, brighter peace prospects 10/21/01
  • Benjamin Miller - visiting professor
  • Department of Political Science

• Understanding, Patriotism, and Orchestrating Emotion 10/17/01
  • Kim Curtis - assisant professor
  • Department of Political Science

• Terrorism: The historical context and the present crisis 10/1/01
  • Martin Miller and Ylana Miller - professors
  • Department of History

• Words Matter - 10/2/01
  • Peter Klopfer - Research Professor
  • Department of Biology
    
    
• The Search for Just Arab Grievances Does Not Mean Moral Relativism,
  • Matthew Freytag - Mellon Lecturing Fellow
  • First Year Writing Program

• Moral Judgment in Crisis
  • Ruth Grant - professor
  • Department of Political Science

• America, the Refugees, and the Political Future of Afghanistan
  • Joseph Grieco - professor
  • Department of Political Science

• Committed to Jesus' nonviolence
  • Debra Dean Murphy - instructor
  • Duke Divinity School

• Thinking About Peace
  • Wahneema Lubiano - associate professor
  • Literature Program

• Travel and Theater in the French 17th century:
  Lessons for Today's World
  • Michèle Longino
    
  • French Studies
    

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