Feedback from midterm assessment of teaching

1. Feedback from midterm assessment of teaching • Give overviews of readings • Reduce tangents and rants • Mix up format: Work in small groups, videos, etc. • Pacing the lecture and stop rushing to complete the end of lecture • Study guides for the test – the Theory Matrix is the study guide for midterm and final

2. Theory Review

4. Terrorism

5. http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/datarivers/vis/GtdExplorer.swf

6. Elements of terrorism • Actors doing act • Means • Goals • Process • Strategies used • Targets • Audience not equal to target • What is the value of distinguishing terrorism from military attacks?

9. Types of terrorism • State terrorism • International terrorism • Transnational terrorism • Domestic terrorism • Nationalist-separatist terrorism

10. Motivations and sources of terrorism • Nationalist aspirations • Racial, religious identities: most terrorists not religious, most fundamentalists not terrorists • Resentment and resistance to oppression • Fear/alienation: response to perceived threat of “other" • Poverty, disenfranchisement, disempowerment • Political discontent

11. Responses to terrorism • Deter • Defend • Criminalize • Preempt • Negotiate and compromise • Remove conditions that promote it