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Simon Frankel Pratt

simon.pratt@mail.utoronto.ca

Ongoing: PhD, University of Toronto
2011: MA (Distinction), King’s College London
2010 : BA (GPA: 3.78), Simon Fraser University;

Publications:

Refereed:

2013.  ‘“Anyone Who Hurts Us”: How the Logic of Israel’s “Assassination Policy” Developed during the Aqsa Intifada’. Terrorism and Political Violence, 25(2).

2012.  S.F. Pratt, P.J. Giabbanelli, P. Jackson and V.K. Mago. “Rebel with Many Causes: A Computational Model of Insurgency”. Proceedings of the Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2012 90 – 95.

(forthcoming) ‘Crossing Off Names: the Logic of Assassination as a Tactic in War.’ Small Wars and Insurgencies.

Non-Refereed:

2011. “Islamic Norms and Democratic Accountability: Compatible or Contrary?” The Spectrum, 01 (August).

2010. “What is the difference between Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism?’ E-IR, 21 December.

Conferences, Presentations and Talks:

2012. ‘Dirty Wars, Dirty Hands: Government-Sponsored Paramilitaries and Counterinsurgency’. International Society of Military Sciences, Annual Conference, Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University, 22-24 October.

2012. ‘Rebel with Many Causes: A Computational Model of Insurgency’. IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Washington DC, 11-14 June.

2012. ‘Modeling Insurgency and Counterinsurgency’. The IRMACS Centre,
SFU, Burnaby, 30 March.

2012. ‘The Tale of the Ethicist Assassins: the Development of Israel’s Assassination Policies during the Second Intifada’. Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Cultures and Societies, SFU, 25 March.

2012. ‘Is Humanism a Religion?’ British Columbia Humanists Association and UBC Freethinkers, University of British Columbia, 1 March 2012.

2011. “Algorithms and Bombs: Modeling Terrorism” Modeling Complex Social Systems, IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, 14 October 2011.

2011. “Humanism and the Dilemmas of Contemporary War.” British Columbia Humanists Association, Burnaby Public Library, 3 October 2011.

2011. “Malicious, Mad, or Moronic? The Psychology of Religious Extremism.” Vancouver SkeptiCamp, University of British Columbia, 6 August 2011.