Why I Am Perfectly Qualified to Write This Book

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One of the key weaknesses of every book on Christian martyrs is that every one of them ignores the essence of every case of Christian martyrdom: it is a criminal investigation. Either because the Christian in question committed a capital crime and was executed for it following the proper judicial procedure – or he or she was murdered by person(s) sufficiently offended by their Christian preaching.

I have neither any kind of training nor experience in criminal investigation – by the way, none of the authors of other books on Christian martyrs do. Still, I am confident that I am perfectly qualified to write this book.

I am perfectly qualified because every criminal investigation is a knowledge management project. More specifically, knowledge mining project. Its objective is to mine (extract) knowledge about the individual(s) who committed the crime from a pile of raw data and information (if a Christian in question committed a capital crime) or about a victim of a homicide – if he/she was murdered for preaching the Christian faith.

More specifically, detectives (investigators) working on a criminal case must (1) collect all relevant raw data and information – relevant being the key word; (2) extract the necessary knowledge from them; (3) structure this knowledge in the most efficient and digestible way; and (4) present this knowledge to judge and jury to prove the culpability of the defendant beyond the reasonable doubt.

Criminal profilers working on a criminal case must (1) collect all relevant raw data and information – relevant being the key word; (2) extract the necessary knowledge from them; (3) structure this knowledge in the most efficient and digestible way; and (4) present this knowledge – about the perpetrator and a victim – to homicide detectives (and subsequently to judge and jury).

Hence, this is the job for the knowledge management professional. Which is exactly my key area of expertise. Knowledge management tools, methods and technologies are applicable to any and every subject matter – and criminal investigation is no exception.

So I am, indeed, perfectly qualified to write this book – much more qualified than any other author (because none of them has knowledge on experience in knowledge management). The latter becomes immediately evident to reader of every book on Christian martyrs – or just about any history book for that matter.