Introduction / Tore Bjørgo -- Exploring roots of terrorism / Dipak K. Gupta -- Impoverished terrorists : stereotype or reality? / Jitka Maleková -- The social and psychological characteristics of terrorism and terrorists / John Horgan -- When hatred is bred in the bone : the socio-cultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology / Jerrold M. Post -- Social, organizational, and psychological factors in suicide terrorism / Ariel Merari -- Palestinian resistance and "suicide bombing" : causes and consequences / Hisham H. Ahmed -- Roots of terrorism in the Middle East : international pressures and international constraints / Abdullah Sahar Mohammad -- Nationalist separatism and terrorism in comparative perspective / Fernando Reinares -- Root causes of terrorism : a case study of the Tamil insurgency and the LTTE / D.R. Kaarthikeyan -- Right-wing terrorism / Wilhelm Heitmeyer -- Social-revolutionary terrorism in Latin-America and Europe / Peter Waldmann -- The use of terrorism by organized crime : an Italian case study / Alison Jamieson -- Patterns of state failure : the case of Lebanon / Farid el Khazen -- State sponsorship : a root cause of terrorism? / Louise Richardson -- Expected utility and state terrorism / Michael Stohl -- A conceptual framework for resolving terrorism's causes / Joshua Sinai -- Prevention of terrorism : towards a multi-pronged approach / Alex P. Schmid -- Fire of Iolaus : the role of state counter-measures in causing terrorism and what needs to be done / Andrew Silke -- Conclusions / Tore Bjørgo.