Term Papers on Terrorism - Towards An Understanding

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Terrorism - Towards An Understanding

Terrorism - Towards an Understanding
Criminology 413
January 24, 2000
Assignment

Terrorism - Towards an Understanding     I am in complete disagreement with Corrado and Cohen's theory of political terrorism.  I believe that political terrorism is committed by dominant, aggressive males in positions of power, acting with other  dominant, aggressive males for more power, money, or status, and without regard to the spiritual nature of human kind.  I believe that dividing political terrorism into state or anti state terrorism, does not get to the root cause of terrorism.  To uncover the true cause of  terrorism, I believe involves identifying  motive and personalities of those "terrorizing".  In most cases it is dominant, aggressive males who hold positions of  power in either the political, economic, or military arenas, and  who manipulate events to suite themselves, e.g.,  Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and in more recent times, Slobodon Milosovic.  Those that fight against dominance and aggression, I believe should be called revolutionaries.  For example, the Irish Republican Army.
     The North of Ireland harboured a protestant streak of dominant, aggressive males, who in attempt to hang on to power, unleashed the horrific events of Bloody Sunday, and many other uncalled for acts of aggression.  These acts where sanctioned by politicians, in both the North of Ireland and England, who acted in conjunction with both the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the British Army.  On Bloody Sunday, the British soldiers  deliberately aimed and killed  young men, they believed most likely to be members of the Irish Republican Army,  at the peaceful, albeit illegal, demonstration.  "...all the deceased where men, and nine of them were under the age of 25."  It was an effort to stop what has almost come to pass.  A fair assembly of politicians, who represent all layers and fabrics of the society.  The event is still under review.   The actions of the Irish Republican Army has eventually destroyed the positions of power that the dominant, aggressive males abused.  But I do not believe that  we should label those who fought for a better life as terrorists.   People who put their lives on the line for true justice, I believe  should be referred to as a Revolutionaries.
     We are exposed to new conflicts now, almost on a daily basis, and no two situations are ever identical.  This makes the breakdown of a typology extremely difficult.   The typology which defines "political terrorism", according to Corrado and Cohen,  has  eleven different categories, in order to encompass all of the different situations.  These typologies may be useful in a security setting, but in order to get to the bottom of the problem, I believe that rather than complicating the issue with many meanings, it should instead be simplified and attributed to one of two choices.  Either acts of dominant aggressive personalities, for selfish gain, or for the achievement of human rights.  It does seem that most of the state terrorism, would fall into the category of actions by a dominant, aggressive male,  whereas the majority of anti state terrorism can be attributed to actions of revolutionaries seeking justice.  A good example of this perhaps could be the recent events in E. Timor.   Taken one step further, we could distinguish all actions as either taken for personal gain or selfish motives, or actions taken from a spiritual base, which concerns itself with the furthering of humanity through acts of genuine, long term initiatives for peace and harmony.  And which sometimes requires revolutionary tactics.
     This discipline, along with history, sociology, psychology, and  political science, struggle to structure the chaos in our world, in an attempt to bring understanding and closure to the problems that threaten to destroy us.  In history actions of the dominant, aggressive males speak for themselves, for example, WWI and WWII.  One would be hard pressed to de...

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