Terrorism



=**Researching Terrorism...**= The keywords and Dewy Decimal Numbers are to assist you in your research on Terrorism. It is your task to define the terms that you want to use when searching for materials. Doing a keyword search will give you many more titles than a subject search and may help you focus your results.

=**Print Resources**=
 * Barker, Jonathan. **//The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism//**. Toronto : New Internationalist Publications, c2008 Jonathan Barker presents a highly accessible history of terrorism, looking at examples from the Middle East and elsewhere, instances of state terrorism, and the terrorist fringes of political movements.
 * Benjamin, Medea . **//Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism.//** Maui, Hawaii : Inner Ocean Pub., c2005. This book aims to educate and reflect on the effectiveness of peace movement activities and offer hope - through shared ideas, action steps, and checklists - to transform a culture of violence to a culture of peace. How can people humanize each other, ask the authors, and act as responsible global citizens? With vitality, joy, and a dash of CODEPINK-style humor, How to Stop the Next War Now insists that the time is ripe for the first-ever global movement to put an end to war - and tells readers what they can do about it.
 * LoCicero, Alice. **//Creating Young Martyrs : conditions that make dying in a terrorist attack seem like a good idea//**. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2008. Explained are the conditions that spur youths to become martyrs by making them think suicide bombings and other acts of self-destructive terrorism are a good way to die. LoCicero and Sinclair present cutting-edge research and theory about the political, social, and living conditions that raise the risk of children deciding to join organizations that use terrorist tactics. Equally important, LoCicero and Sinclair offer concrete suggestions about how ordinary Americans can help reduce and prevent terrorism around the globe.
 * Moghadam, Assaf. **//The Globalization of Martyrdom : Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the diffusion of suicide attacks.//** Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008. This groundbreaking volume examines the rise and spread of suicide attacks over the past decade. Sorting through 1,270 terror strikes between 1981 and 2007, Assaf Moghadam attributes their recent proliferation to the mutually related ascendance of al Qaeda and its guiding ideology, Salafi Jihad, an extreme interpretation of Islam that rejects national boundaries and seeks to create a global Muslim community.
 * Thompson, Paul . **//The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11//** -- and America's Response. New York: ReganBooks, 2004. Paul Thompson's The Terror Timeline offers a complete and thorough history of the many roads that converged on 9/11, including the development of Islamic fundamentalism, the activities of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the failures of U.S. investigations and counterterrorism efforts. It traces the actions (and inactions) of every important figure in the war on terror, both before and after 9/11, bringing them together in a volume that offers a comprehensive and provocative look at this complex subject.
 * Relin, David Oliver. **//Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time//**. New York : Viking Books, 2006. One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time. You can preview this book through Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=HbezCyqr3q0Cdq=Three+Cups+of+Tea:+One+Man%27s+Mission+to+Fight+Terrorism+and+Build+Nations...&source=gbs_navlinks_s

=**Non-Print Resources**=
 * **//9/11: the flight that fought back.//** Discovery Channel School, 2006. [Video] 56 min. Special features: Video index; Curriculum units; Standards link to national education standards and Teaching resources guide
 * **//News in Review February 2009→//** Segment 3. The terrorist attack on Mumbai (16:35 min.) Toronto, ON : CBC Learning, c2009 [DVD]. Part of a series which presents stories from news coverage on the National in more depth and detail than given during the actual broadcast.
 * **//Suicide missions: counter terrorist teams//**//.// A&E Television Networks ; United State: The History Channel, 2007. [video] 50 min. From hostage situations to biological, chemical, and military encounters, The History Channel takes an inside look into the dangerous world of counter terrorist teams.

The library offers remote access to online databases through EBSCOhost. Select Academic Research & Reference - High School and narrow your search through using the following databases:
 * Remote Access to Online Databases**
 * Canadian Reference Centre
 * Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
 * History Reference Center

=**Internet Resources**=
 * The United Nations and Counterterrorism **
 * **UN Actions to Counter Terrorism** →This is the starting point for research on the United Nations and counterterrorism; includes links to UN conventions on terrorism. []
 * **Security Council—Counter-Terrorism Committee** → This body coordinates UN counterterrorist activities. Site includes full-text country reports on how countries are fighting terrorism []
 * **United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)** → Select International Legal Resources to find conventions, treaties, case law from the United Nations and regional governmental bodies. Select National Legal Resources to find laws from different countries on terrorism. Electronic Legal Resources on International Terrorism []
 * Canada and Counterterrorism **
 * **The Anti-Terrorism Act** → Site includes the text of the act, records of parliamentary debates as the act was compiled, annual reports to parliament on the act’s enforcement. http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/antiter/
 * **Public Safety Canada**—National Security—Listed Entities →Lists organizations defined as terrorist by the Canadian government. []


 * The United States and Counterterrorism **
 * **United States Department of State**—Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism→ Site includes country reports and profiles of terrorist organizations. []
 * **United States Counterterrorism Team**→ Site features links to the major American agencies fighting terrorism including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Central Intelligence Agency. []


 * Terrorist Organizations and Activities **
 * //Note: Lists of terrorist organizations, as maintained by governments and non-governmental bodies, are controversial; definitions of terrorist groups vary widely.//**
 * **International Crisis Group**→ Site contains full-text reports about conflicts around the world, including terrorist activities. []
 * **National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism**→ Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. []
 * Major sections include**:
 * 1) **Global Terrorism Database**→ Containing 80,000 terrorist incidents from the 1970s to the present, researchers can search the database by country, region, target, weapon, and perpetrator.[]
 * 2) **Terrorist Organization Profiles**→ Contains profiles on terrorist organizations from the 1960s to the present; allows searching by name, location, and ideology. []
 * **Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence**→ A scholarly work in progress, this site features chronologies, case studies, country reports, theoretical papers, reviews of the history of different mass killings and terrorist activities. [|http://www.massviolence.org]
 * **South Asia Terrorism Portal**→ Site covers terrorism in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; includes news articles, legislation, timelines, and profiles of terrorist organizations. [|http://www.satp.org]

These sites examine how human rights can be maintained in the fight against terrorism
 * Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Human Rights **
 * **Amnesty International**—Counter Terror with Justice []
 * **Human Rights Watch**—Terrorism []