TERRORISM A CURSE OR BLESSING TO INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW Executive summary This paper looks into terrorism and the effect it has had on international humanitarian law. Whether it has had a negative impact on the already existing laws that deal with conflict situations or whether it has had a positive impact. It also looks into the situations terrorism has led to and the various ways the fight against terrorism has been used to undermine human rights and given states a leeway to commit
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of terrorism on in-group and out-group perceptions and relations. This report aims to examine four experimental studies regarding different aspects of terrorism. Firstly‚ the four experimental papers will be discussed‚ through the lens of the rationale underlying each study‚ the methodology employed‚ the results and the limitations of each study. After which the ecological validity of the findings will be discussed and whether these results are reflective of real-life perceptions on terrorism.
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Bibliography: 1. Andreas Behnke and Christina Hellmich‚ 2012. Knowing Al-Qaeda : the epistemology of terrorism. s.l.:Ashgate. 2. Ashour‚ O.‚ 2011. The Arab Spring is Al-Qaeda’s winter‚ s.l.: The Daily Star. 3. Atwan‚ A.-B.‚ 2012. After Bin Laden. London: Saqi Books. 4. Becker‚ J.‚ 2012. Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will‚ s.l
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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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In the Beginning Is it possible to believe that in both Islam and Christianity‚ two faiths ultimately founded on notions of peace and forgiveness‚ that it is morally acceptable to commit sin against those who are “the real sinners”? Both the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the North American based Christian terrorist group the Army of God obviously sympathize with that statement. Each organization has set personal vendettas against the United States and the policies the US has established
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Information can matter even more when the adversary wears no uniform and blends in with the civilian population‚ in a “war against terrorism”. Can torture sometimes be justified to extract information? The international law says “No.” as laid down in treaties like the Geneva Conventions‚ the UN Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; all
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There is a link between terrorism and tourism but it is not simple. Terrorism does not seem to have a big effect on domestic tourism but mostly affects international tourism. If a host country has had widespread media attention to a terrorism event‚ tourist numbers see a major drop from selected areas. Low level terrorism gradually reduces tourism over a period of time‚ and surprise‚ brutal attacks have an immediate negative impact. The prevalence of violence is more important than the enormity of
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knowledgeable of various areas that impacted the Muslim population in the Philippines. These included the historical‚ religious‚ economic‚ political‚ and social conditions that existed at the time25 and it was his aim to build his idea of an Islamic state in the southern Philippines to improve those conditions.26 Funding to initiate and support the movement in the beginning was supposedly supplied by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa‚ Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law.27 This was the first reported
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There is no way that xenophobia does not exist in the contemporary world‚ you can see it in political campaigns and when an epidemic threatens western civilization. However‚ The Walking Dead is not an example of xenophobia. The graphic novel The Walking Dead shows a civilization trying to come back after a zombie apocalypse‚ in which they are living in complete survival mode and never know what is coming for them next. Some people believe that The Walking Dead only has to do with humanity’s deepest
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The threat of natural disasters has been around since the beginnings of the earth. Mankind has never been without the safety concerns and precautions associated with these threats. Yet it seems that in the last one hundred years or so the terroristic threats have become a far greater concern to the U.S. population. If the number of casualties from both threats were compared with each other‚ the numbers for one would hardly be anywhere near the other. Natural disasters are far more dangerous‚ yet
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