Nichole Argo spent 2003-04 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as a researcher for the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford, interviewing would-be suicide bombers and their communities. The present inquiry, funded for 2004-5 by the United States Institute for Peace, studies the role that relationships—shaped in part by community structure—play in bomber mobilization, and weak-against-strong resistance in general. Long-interested in ethnic mobilization and violence, Ms. Argo previously lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Rwanda. She holds a Masters Degree in International Policy Studies (Conflict and Security Emphasis) from Stanford University, and a certificate in Peace Research from the University of Oslo.
