Madrid Democracy and Terrorism Conference Documents Now on Internet

The Club de Madrid has just published the full set of the Madrid Conference papers based on the discussions and conclusions of its various working groups. During the months preceding the Madrid Conference some two hundred experts and scholars exchanged views via a system of password-protected web-logs. These discussions were continued in conference meetings and resulted in the final papers prepared by each working group. They are now available in three separate volumes. The First Volume deals with the Causes of Terrorism, including its psychological roots as well as political, economic, religious, and cultural factors. The Second Volume is on Confronting Terrorism and deals with policing, intelligence, military responses, terrorist finance, and science and technology.
The Third Volume concentrates on a "Democratic Response" to terrorism including the role of international institutions, legal responses, democracy promotion, human rights and civil society. There is a load of excellent material in these volumes for consideration by policy makers, practitioners, advisors, and scholars. I will be posting my own reflections on these materials shortly.