Glen Doris 2012 1 Terrorism, Trauma and Memory – The Bombing of the MV Doulos in the History of Abu Sayyaf. [First Slide] 2004 Dublin – The news report, viewed without sound in the window of an appliance store on the Streets of Dublin, showed the devastation left after an explosion in Glasgow, the city I was about to travel to with my organization. My first thought was that it was another Al Qaeda attack on an unsuspecting European target city. As it turned out, it was a tragic accident at a fireworks factory. My thoughts turned to terrorism very quickly as, at that time. The number of people I had known killed in terrorist violence was 6. The following year that number would climb to 7. After September 11, 2001 Islamic extremist terrorism on European soil was a very strong and realistic fear. I was not always so quick to jump to such a conclusion. In 1991 I was less conscious of the idea of terrorism outside of a Middle Eastern context and had no fears of any sort of risk of violence perpetrated upon myself or my colleagues in the course of our current work project, the Southern Philippines, in the Port city of Zamboanga. [Second slide] MV Doulos’ work in the Philippines. I had joined the ship MV Doulos crew almost 2 years before and was working as a shift supervisor for the on board book exhibition, the main focus of our work in the region. Our organization Gute Bucher fur Alle (GBA) was a Christian volunteer organization with 2 ships, one of which (the Doulos) worked mainly