...Gregory Bady Paper Project 1 June 21, 2015 Before taking the quiz I was not aware of exactly where I stood on my political beliefs. Before taking this class I was not intune with my political side at all. I did know how ever that I shared views on certains things but did not know exactly where I stood on my views. After taking the quizzes they stated that I was more on the liberals side. The results were around what I expected especially after I started learning the definition of liberals and conservatives and the beliefs of one each one believes in. The results of each quiz that I took were very similar. I feel as if I am very unwavering in my beliefs and that is why the outcome of the test results were the same. I do agree with the outcome of the results from the test that I participated in. It was pretty accurate when I took into account and researched the beliefs and ideas of someone that considers thierselves a liberals. There are a few things that I found in my research that I did not agree completely with their ideas. A few of those were on topics dealing with healthcare and also topics that dealt with immigration. For the most part tho most of the ideas associated with the way that liberals think I was in agreement with. Quizzes like this I think are very useful tools especially to individuals like myself that are not for sure on what political catergories they fall under. Tools like this help give a better understanding and kinda puts everything into a better...
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...Patrick H. O’Neil describes political violence as “politically motivated violence outside of state control.” Political violence is one of the prevalent forms of violence throughout the world today. In many cases, it is used to exhibit some type of political stance or supposed to oppose another political stance. There are different types of political violence and each type has its own purpose and outcome. There are many explanations that are given as to why political violence has been used over the years. One explanation is because of the institutions or organizations and the impact that they have on the country and/or region that the political violence occurs. There are many different types of institutions including political, economic, and social institutions. These institutions can also have a lot of impact on how political violence unfolds. The institutions can either create or abolish...
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...Rapping basically involves the speaking or reciting of rhyming lyrics, time after time set to a beat. The rhyming created by rappers is measured by many to be one of the most cultured styles of poetry. What’s more, these rhymes eventually address confrontational subjects such as sex, violence and socio-political issues. In the film you can see many of the rappers rapping first gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1970s as a kind of street art, like in the interview Ice-T had with an artist named Afrika Bambaata when he talked about the art of hip hop. He spoke about hip hop being a masterpiece and that no one painted it all especially among African American teenagers. During that time many of the young teens who dance over a beat that made you move in a special way from within like just feeling it like no other. It wasn’t until 1979, when the Sugar hill gang released their breakaway hit, ‘Rapper’s Delight, that record producers took notice of this developing musical genre. Once they did, numerous rap acts, including Run-DMC and N.W.A., raised, and rap’s audience began to swell. It wasn’t just African American male rappers...
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...quantitative and qualitative approach Summary en kwantitatieve benadering/ Commissioners Promoter/coordinator Co-promoters Researchers Belspo FOD Binnenlandse zaken – Directe algemene veiligheid Lieven PAUWELS - UGent Fabienne BRION - UCL Brice DE RUYVER – Ugent Marleen EASTON - Ugent Nele SCHILS – Ugent Julianne LAFFINEUR - UCL 1 1. Introduction Research problem Worldwide, both policy and research pay a lot of attention to extremism, and radicalization as the process leading to extremism (Van de Linde & Rademaker, 2010). Scholars and policymakers increasingly focus on unravelling the processes of radicalisation, hoping to prevent the violent radicalisation of their own youth and eventually political violence (Van de Line & Rademaker, 2010). The Internet and its constant technological developments in particular are causes of concern (Conway, 2012). Recently, we have seen a boom in new social media (NSM) and other web 2.0 applications, bearing a large potential for communication and networking (Conway, 2012). These developments have transformed the world in an online village, with every offline actor being represented online. It is therefore no surprise that criminals, radicals, violent extremists and terrorists also use this medium to their advantage (Benschop, 2006; Stevens & Neuhmann, 2009; Weimann, 2004). By means of the Internet and NSM, violent extremist organisations and individuals are able to easily reach each other and address...
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...there is a link between conflict and violence. On the day this paper was written, we in the Washington, D.C. area were obsessed with a sniper who had killed nine apparently randomly selected victims in the preceding two weeks, a foiled suicide bomb attack in Israel, and the United States government's ongoing preparation to launch a war against Iraq. Additional insights into violence are offered by Beyond Intractability project participants. Not all intractable conflicts involve violence, and even for those that do the violence is not necessarily constant. Thus, in mid-2002, there was little or no fighting in Bosnia or Burundi and had not been for some time. Nonetheless, violence is often a part of intractable conflicts at one point or another in their histories. Not all violence is part of an intractable political conflict. For instance, there have been no hints of political motivations lying behind the sniper attacks in the Washington region. However, much violence in today's world is political; indeed, depending on the estimates one believes, it took in excess of 100 million lives around the world during the twentieth century. Violence can take many forms. In its classic form, it involves the use of physical force -- beating or torturing prisoners of war, raping women in the enemy camp, and, of course, the bombing and shooting that has made warfare so tragic since the dawn of the industrial age. Some observers claim that violence exists whenever force is used or threatened...
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...RufinSeminar Tudor: Jeremy Green Unit: POLII11103Word count: 1739 Comparative Government Essay: In what ways does War drive Political Change? “There was never a good war” (Brands, 2000). This quote from Benjamin Franklin explains well the general opinion that we have on the idea of war today. War is immoral, irrational and only brings destruction to anyone who takes part in it but if we are to debate it, we must understand it first. War can be defined as a conflict carried out between parties within a nation or between nations themselves by force of arms. It is characterised by the importance of the organisations or coalitions of organisations that take part and the consequential collective aggression. Hence why we see it as such a negative notion, yet our world's history is filled with long, horrible and devastating wars and they are still going on today. These wars are not, as one might think, forgotten but remembered because wars are just a huge part of our past. This essay will try to grasp the changes that war brings to society and how from a political point of view. In general politics can be described as the exercise of power by individuals and institutions. However, in a context of political change brought by war, politics would be the concept of how states function ergo a transformation of the set of formal legal institutions. Thus political change could be the adoption of a new law or even the creation of a state or a nation. Taking all that into account we can wonder...
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...The former, terror, is an instance of fear or anxiety. It is the “various forms of psychic terror, whether self-induced or stimulated by art, religion, or indoctrination (e.g the terror of divine punishment or retribution)” (Wilkinson 8). The latter, Wilkinson argues, is “the use of coercive intimidation by revolutionary moments, regimes or individuals for political motives” (Wilkinson 8). Wilkinson’s concept of terrorism resonates closely to that of the task force President George W. Bush assembled after the 11 September Attacks. The President’s task force defined Terrorism as the “threatened or actual use of force or violence to attain a political goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.” The language here reflects that terrorism is not inflicted for its own sake, but to reach some political, social, or economic...
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...The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence attempts to explore questions that have long perplexed social scientists in the realm of religious studies. A series of forty articles aim to discover the link between religion and violence and how thorough that link is. The bulk of this book examines only the major religions of the world. Such religions go through historical analysis and related to the present day traditions in which violence is understood. The terms religion and violence are both quite ambiguous and sometimes often difficult to define and identify. This book lacks to distinguish collective definitions of the two terms but does so in an effective manner to exemplify their bond. Social, political, and literary themes are used in this multi-dimensional analysis of religious violence. These dimensions include...
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...Violence from a gender view what role does masculinity play in Ethiopia context. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Main concepts in feminist approach 3. Hegemonic masculinity theory 4. The subculture of violence in peace and conflict 5. The perception on gender versus sex in Ethiopia 6. Gendered dynamics of violence 6.1 Masculinities and violence 6.2 Femininities and violence 7. Conclusion 8. References 1. Introduction The paper critically evaluate the theory which claims that violence has a strong gender dimension and what role does masculinity play in violence. There are feminist theories and assumptions regarding the societal construction of gender, as it is divided into two major categories...
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...assaults. Shootings at the “Bataclan” in Paris, strikes at a christmas market in Germany and most recently at a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, have made us aware of the increasing risk of the violence of these terrorist attacks. Basing ourselves on the scenario of the bombings at the Ariana Grande concert, we will look at the subject of violence through the eyes of three great thinkers. The other situation that we will be investigating is the equal parade marches through Warsaw. According to the police some 13’000...
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...I. Description of the Research Topic Sexual assault and rape culture have become a predominant issue around the world. Ranging from college campuses to small villages in Rwanda, women are being taken advantage of for the benefit of men. Sexual assault detrimentally affects women and their way of life. In the following paper, I will discuss political violence through sexual assault in two countries, The Democratic of Congo, and Darfur the region in Sudan; the statistics of sexual assault on college campuses in the United States; laws, policies, procedures, and human rights developed to address sexual assault and how they affect women; sexual violence in the workplace; and current events about sexual assault and the effect on women today. II....
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...Terrorism has been defined as ‘the use of violence or intimidation to achieve a desired end.’ (Donohoe, 2004). Terrorists have used these methods over time to change the political sphere of a country, sometimes for the greater good, and other times to advocate minor causes or causes that do not align with the values of broader society. Although terrorism had existed as a concept before the 1970s, it was at this time that terrorists began to act outside of their home territory, either singularly (known as acting as a ‘lone wolf’) or as part of a terrorist group. The first known example of this occurred in 1972 when a group of Arabian terrorists launched an attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, killing eleven people. Since this time,...
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...Definitions of Terrorism This paper argues that Fort Hood Shooting was an act of terrorism rather than the act of workplace violence. Based on the evidence in the case and on the existing definitions of terrorism, it asserts that Fort Hood Shooting was a terrorist attack and further provides policy recommendations to counteract the terrorism threat within the American society. Background of the Issue On November 5, 2009, U.S. Army Major and Psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 and wounded 32 people as he went on a shooting spree in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was convicted on 45 counts of pre-mediated killing as well as attempted pre-mediated murder for murdering and shooting individuals at Fort Hood. President Obama made a reference...
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...an ongoing process of change in relations, behavior, attitudes, and structures from negative to positive (Lederach 1995). Conflict transformation views peace as centered and rooted in the quality of relationships, It moves beyond the episodic expression of the conflict and focuses on the relational and historical patterns in which the conflict is rooted. Harrington and Merry (1988) advocate that societies are transformed when fundamental social and political changes are made to make correct inequalities and injustices and to provide all groups with fundamental human needs. Thus they regard conflict transformation as the restructuring of social institutions and structures so that people can realise their potential. Conflict transformation refers to outcome, process and structure oriented long-term peace building efforts, which aim to truly overcome revealed forms of direct, cultural and structural violence. The ideas of Lederach have heavily informed peace practioners as to avoid the ideas of quick solutions to deep social political problems .Thus he favoured a holistic approach to peace building based on justice...
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...attacks, and is also someone who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person. They are both motivated by their beliefs, the will to terrorize the population of which they despise, and their political or personal agendas. The nature of a terrorist and assassin is sometimes considered to be acts of insane men trying to achieve a particular goal; their methods are known to have a drastic impact of society because of all the innocent people that are killed and hurt. Terrorist and assassins have had a major impact on society throughout history and definitely in the 20th century. They are said to be different in many ways but similar in some, and one thing they have in common is that their actions have the same effect on society. Terrorist’s and assassin’s actions are considered one of the most powerful influences in society because they are motivated by causing chaos and upheaval in society. Both parties believe in their cause and will stop at nothing to get what they want. Terrorist are very manipulative people that do what they feel is best to get their point of view across, their actions are solely to intimidate and persuade people to believe that their cause is right and just. A terrorist act is called terrorism, and terrorism is considered to be an act of violence in pursuit of political or religious goals. The word terrorism was...
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