Instruction
i want you to answer this Questions each question about a paragraph.
Q1:
The following websites are links to international organizations that provide information about countries
and human rights conditions:
Amnesty International:
CIA World Factbook:
Doctors of the World
Human Rights Watch:
Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without
Borders):
Using this chapters recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of state terrorism.
1. Are there certain governmental or institutional profiles that distinguish repressive regimes from nonrepressive
regimes?
2. Read the mission statements of the monitoring
organizations. Do they reflect objective and professionally
credible approaches for monitoring the behavior of states?
3. In your opinion, how effective are these organizations?
Q2:
The following websites provide links to dissident revolutionary organizations, movements, and information:
Foreign Terrorist Organizations:
Irish Northern Aid (Noraid):
Naval Postgraduate School (Terrorist Group
Profiles):
PLO Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD):
Using this chapters recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of dissident terrorism.
1. How would you describe the self-images presented by dissident movements?
2. Based on the information given by the monitoring
organizations, are some dissident movements seemingly more threatening than others? Less threatening? Why?
3. Compare the dissident websites to the monitoring agencies sites. Are any of the dissident groups unfairly reported by the monitoring agencies?
Q3:
The following websites provide links to discussions of religious terrorism and extremism:
Army of God:
Christian Exodus:
Hezbollah (Islamic Resistance):
Islamic Propagation Organization:
Muslim Brotherhood Movement:
Radio Islam:
Using this chapters recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of religious extremism.
1. What commonalities can you find among the religious
websites? What basic values are similar? In what ways do they differ?
2. Are the religious sites effective propaganda? How would you advise the site designers to appeal to different constituencies?
Q4:
The following websites provide information about leftist
and rightist organizations, movements, and goals:
Afrikaner Resistance Movement (South Africa):
Earth Liberation Front:
Front National (France):
National Liberation Army (Colombia):
Sinn Fin (UK):
Socialist International:
Using this chapters recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of left-wing dissident movements.
1. How would you describe the self images presented by left-wing dissident movements?
2. Review the goals and objectives of these organizations.
Do they seem reasonable to you? Do they justify violent
behavior?
3. If you were a violent leftist dissident, how would you
design your own website?