Crowd Control

Crowd Control Can Save Lives at Large Islamic Gatherings

The RNS article of the week (linked above) looks at crowd control strategies for major religious pilrimages.

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As desirable as it may seem to make all pilgrimages safe and comfortable, a certain degree of hardship has always been part of the pilgrimage experience, according to Kerry Walters, a philosophy professor at Gettysburg College who has studied the phenomenon.