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How Do the Taliban Train Young Boys to Be Suicide Bombers?

Two of the most important things we in the privileged world can do to make the world a safer place is to make it a better world for all. Not just ourselves, not just our neighbours, but for all.

1. Economic development because it brings hope and options.
2. Literacy and freedom of information because it enables people to truly think for themselves.

Many of us have probably asked the question how a person becomes a suicide bomber. What is it that “makes” someone do such a thing?

This little video from Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy presented at a TED conference sheds a little light on those questions: