| Is terrorism a social construct? | With reference to India | | Radhika Dhingra | 12/7/2012 | My assignment focusses on how terrorism is a social construct. With special reference to India I have tried to accentuate factors that seem to reiterate on the above. | Do you think terrorism is a social construction‚ discuss it with suitable examples from the Indian context? Probably INTRODUCTION “The most significant contribution of sociological thinking to our understanding
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The need for protection of terrorism has been around for a while. Countries have been suppressing and are in the pursuit of terrorism “ The need for organizations devoted to the pursuit and suppression of terrorist and willing to exchange information internationally became urgent in 1972” (Charlie Fuller 85). Terrorism has been around for a long time but in 1972 is when countries were really getting in to stopping the acts of terrorism. It was a real need for the world to exchange information so
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Terrorism has been widely known to all of the world for many years. "It exists as a means of making a government or group aware of certain needs that they must change something by creating fear and destruction". But why do people have to resort to violent acts such as: bombing‚ assassinations‚ and hi-jacking? How do and how can individuals and organizations justify these acts of terror? During the last few years‚ many groups of terrorists have formed all over the world and it’s becoming an international
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WAGING WAR AGAINST TERRORIST ATTACK IN MY COUNTRY Terrorism is a world phenomena and a threat to national peace and development. It is the use of violence to create fear in the target group or government‚ which is meant to induce the government to do something or behave as per the requirements of the terrorists. Terrorist often have an ideological goal they seek to achieve except when the attack is a lone one. Terrorism is a concern to every government which will always seek to stamp it out so as
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Bruno S. Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University applied game theory principles to the study of terrorism and media coverage and found that the two have a symbiotic relationship. Terrorism attracts media coverage because it sells more newspapers‚ and more media coverage encourages terrorists to commit more acts of terrorism. The media’s need for exciting news coverage feeds terrorists’ agendas to make their statements‚ political or otherwise‚ as dramatic
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Wikipedia Studymode A common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political‚ religious‚ or ideological change.[1][2] Terrorism in India‚ according to the Home Ministry‚ poses a significant threat to the state. Terrorism in India are basically two types external and internal‚ external terrorism emerge from neighboring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and
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References: STATE v. ANDERSON‚ No. 67826-0. (State of Washington August 10‚ 2000). U.S. Legal. (n.d.). Retrieved September 5‚ 2011‚ from uslegal.com: http://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terrorism/ Martin‚ G. (2010). Understanding Terrorism: Challenges‚ Perspective‚ and Issues Third Edition. In G. Martin‚ Understanding Terrorism: Challenges‚ Perspective‚ and Issues Third Edition (pp. 82-84). California: Sage Publication‚ Inc.
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Roots of Terrorism in the novel Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Postmodernism is a concept that can be defined as the direct outcome of this modern Post-Colonial world‚ a world that has been witness to mass migration‚ cross-cultural conflict and amalgamation of various cultures into a hybrid multicultural society. Terrorism‚ the unofficial use of violence and intimidation in the attempt to gain the political aims of selfishness is the main fold of Post-modernism. Salman Rushdie’s fictions borrow
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Beginning in 2001 after 9-11‚ America has been in a war on terrorism. Originally‚ we were fighting a terrorist group called Al Qaeda. That war pretty much ended after we killed their leader Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately‚ The war on terrorism did not end there. After Al Qaeda was defeated another terrorist organization named ISIS was born. ISIS’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to have been killed a long time ago. Now government officials believe that he is still very much alive and faked
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Can terrorism ever be justified? Introduction The purpose of this essay is to explore the issues surrounding the morality of terrorism. I will begin by providing contextual information of the topic through exploring the history of terrorism. From the Sicarii in 50AD who carried out assassinations with short daggers to more recent attacks such as 7/7 bombings in the London underground. In this section however we will find it is not only the methodology of terrorism that has changed but its definition
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