Web Resources and Exercises
Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.
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)
Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of state terrorism.
- Are there certain governmental or institutional profiles that distinguish repressive regimes from nonrepressive regimes?
- Read the mission statements of the monitoring organizations. Do they reflect objective and professionally credible approaches for monitoring the behavior of states?
- In your opinion, how effective are these organizations?
For an online search of state terrorism, readers should enter the following keywords in the search engine on their Web browser:
- “State Terrorism”
- “Terrorist States”