‘Carrot’ Works Better than ‘Stick’ Against Terror in Israel: UMD-Led Study
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Israeli policies that reward Palestinian efforts to contain violence are more effective than violent crackdowns that punish terrorists and civilians alike, concludes a new University of Maryland-led study analyzing 17 years’ worth of data. Published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review , the study is the first to empirically evaluate the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment strategies as antidotes to terrorism. “There aren’t easy answers to combatting terrorism, but overall, our
