Edited by O. A. Oeser and S. B. Hammond

FROM THE PREFACE: “In1949,the Social SciencesResearch Committee of the Australian National Research Council undertook to sponsor for UNESCO two community studies in Australia, one urban and one rural. They were to be part of an international study of communities and social tensions, the other countriestaking part being India, France and Sweden. The Department of Psychology at Melbourne University was asked to carry out the Australian project. The material reported in the City Studies is drawn from a number of researches carried out in the period 1947-50 by staff and students of the Department, in particular by those associated with the course entitled 'Collective Behaviour. This preface is intended to give brief outlines of these researches and to acknow- ledge the work of the many persons who have been of assistance.

London. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1954. 356p.. USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP.

By Bibi van Ginkel

In this Research Paper Dr. Bibi van Ginkel takes an in depth look at how multi-lateral institutions, engage with civil society to counter violent extremism. Dr. van Ginkel argues that civil society can play a crucial role in preventing and countering violent extremism in numerous ways – by working on development programs, through their work in conflict transformation, in providing a platform to raise political grievances and to facilitate dialogue, or through their work in empowering victims and survivors of terrorism. The Paper finds that over the last decade there has been a more intensive coordination of activities between the UN and other multi-lateral organisations and civil society but the question remains whether the implementation as well as the drafting of these policies will live up to their potential effectiveness. This Paper gauges how effective these measures have been and what more there is to do. The final section concludes with a series of policy recommendations.

The Hague: The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, 2012. 14p.

By Peter Kropotkin

Ashley Montagu described Mutual Aid as “one of the world’s great books.” From butterflies to human families, Kropotkin argued that humans, indeed all species, had to help each other if they were to survive. This was a direct counter to the popularized Darwinian thesis of the “survival of the fittest” or Hobbes’s war of all against all.

McClure, Philips & Company, 1902, 181 pages