Archive for 'Framing'
Should Captured AQ Documents Have Been Released?
By Steven R. Corman & Jarret Brachman The release last week of documents captured from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbotabad has generated a flurry of interest in the press and blogosphere. Yet a question has arisen as to whether the release was wise, since the documents are intelligence assets that could give the enemy [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2012 under Analysis, bin Laden, Counterterrorism, Framing, Image, Intelligence, Movements, Strategic Comm..
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Suharto Era Comops Backfire in 2012 Indonesia
by Chris Lundry Indonesian extremists continue to portray Ambonese Christians as engaged in separatist rebellion against Indonesia, and a crusade against Muslims. This isn’t true, but raises the question: where on earth did they get this idea? The adage that if a lie gets repeated enough times it becomes true is, apparently, applicable in Indonesia’s [...]
Posted: April 26th, 2012 under Analysis, Framing, Government, Indonesia, Military, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm..
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Cooking the Books
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has an article in the current issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on casualty inflation by the Taliban in the Afghanistan conflict. The abstract follows, and the full text is available here (subscription). Cooking the Books: Strategic Inflation of Casualty Reports by Extremists in the Afghanistan Conflict Chris [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under Afghanistan, Framing, Publications, Recruitment, Strategic Comm..
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NATO’s Narrative Vacuum
by Steven R. Corman Last month, James Appathurai, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, agreed to participate in an electronic Q&A sponsored by the Atlantic Community. He answered 20 questions in four installments, on global partnerships and the Arab spring, partnerships in Asia, questions on Central Asia/Caucasus, and the NATO [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2012 under Analysis, Framing, Narrative, Politics, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm..
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Contesting New Media: Indonesia vs. the Muslim World League
By Mark Woodward and Inayah Rohmaniyah* Earlier this month (December 13-15) we were privileged to participate in a “The 2nd International Conference on Islamic Media” sponsored by the Saudi sponsored Muslim World League (MWL, Rabita al-Alam al-Islami) and the Indonesian Ministry of Religion in Jakarta Indonesia. Tension between the co-sponsors was evident in the selection [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2011 under Analysis, Framing, Indonesia, Media, Religion, Sensemaking, Southeast Asia.
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Ridiculing AQ’s Irrelevance in the Arab Spring
by Steven R. Corman A few weeks ago I did a keynote speech at a public meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission in Public Diplomacy. Later in the meeting I heard a presentation by Ambassador Richard LeBaron, Coordinator of the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC). The topic of his talk tied together [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2011 under Analysis, Counterterrorism, Egypt, Framing, Media, State Dept., Strategic Comm..
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Another Bombing in Indonesia, Another Struggle over Framing
by Chris Lundry On Sunday, September 25, a lone suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a Protestant Church in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, as services were letting out. Along with the bomber, one congregant was killed and several wounded from the shrapnel composed of nails, bolts and buckshot. In the ensuing week there has been [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2011 under Analysis, Counterterrorism, Framing, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Southeast Asia, Suicide Bombing.
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Extremists Stoking Religious Violence in Indonesia
by Chris Lundry Violence between Muslims and Christians broke out in the city of Ambon, Maluku Province, Indonesia on Sunday, September 11. Official sources state that an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver named Darmis Saiman was killed in an accident on September 10. But rumors sent via text message spread the following day when he was [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2011 under Framing, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia.
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Seeing the Syrian Conflict through Narrative
By Jeffry R. Halverson Unlike the protests of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, the campaigns underway against the Assad regime in Syria have a distinctly sectarian character. The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawites, a little-known esoteric Shi‘ite sect. However, the majority of Syria’s population is Sunni Muslim (approx. 75%). And caught [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2011 under Analysis, Framing, Government, Islam, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Syria.
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bin Laden the Myth
by Bennett Furlow In the immediate aftermath of Usama bin Laden’s death there was no shortage of news and commentary trying to explain the significance of his demise. What does his death mean for the U.S. and al-Qaeda, or for the War in Afghanistan? The unilateral action by the U.S. also presented many questions about [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2011 under Analysis, bin Laden, Framing, Strategic Comm..
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