HIST 1500Y Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: News Values
15 Sep 2020
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10 days that shook the world: terror in history: The revised academic consensus definition of terrorism: alex p. schmid. The definition of terrorism: terrorism is a contested concept, there is no universal legal definition approved by the general assembly of the united. Nations (the one proposed by the security council in res. 1566 (2004) is non-binding, lacking legal authority in international law). Revised academic consensus definition of terrorism: 1. Disappearances" involving kidnapping, secret detention, torture and murder: 4. Sources of terrorist violence can be individual perpetrators, small groups, diffuse transnational networks as well as state actors or state-sponsored clandestine agents (such as death squads and hit teams): 9. While showing similarities with methods employed by organized crime as well as those found in war crimes, terrorist violence is predominantly political usually in its motivation but nearly always in its societal repercussions: 10.
