Recommended Websites:

The following websites are links to international organizations that provide information about countries and human rights conditions:

• Amnesty International:
• CIA World Factbook:
• Doctors of the World:
• Human Rights Watch:
• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of state terrorism.

1. Are there certain governmental or institutional profiles that distinguish repressive regimes from nonrepressive regimes?
2. Read the mission statements of the monitoring organizations. Do they reflect objective and professionally credible approaches for monitoring the behavior of states?
3. In your opinion, how effective are these organizations?

For an online search of state terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “State Terrorism” “Terrorist States”