Internet Civil Liberties in the U.S. and the Protection of the Modern Terrorist

This capstone examines the civil liberties of the modern terrorist and explicates the right to freedom of speech for terrorist organizations and their use of the internet. Terrorist organizations use the internet to promote ideas, recruit members, organize the flow of information, and coordinate actions. During the war on terror the US Patriot Act became law allowing for U.S. government censorship and surveillance of internet traffic and many believe these acts are a threat to civil liberties. Terrorist organizations have the right to express their views, however unpopular, and censoring or restricting web sites diminishes civil liberties for all, which democracies and liberal societies are founded upon.

The Universality of Civil War Definitions: A Study of How Regional Considerations Impact Civil War in Somalia, Colombia, and Angola

Civil war is a socially intimate phenomenon. The viability of the conflict hinges on recruitment for the cause, military strategy, community support, and a variety of other conditional factors. Despite this dependence on local society, many researchers approach civil war from a global perspective, attempting to discover universal truths about this kind of conflict. This capstone project focuses on restricting the operating parameters of civil war research projects to the span of a single continent, hoping to achieve deeper insight by focusing the research using a more culturally sensitive set of parameters. By using cultural data to guide civil war research, conflict indicators can tailor conflict prevention to escalating violent scenarios.

"Creeping" civil war in the North Caucasus. OSW Commentary No. 50, 2011-03-15

Over the last year, the situation in Russia’s North Caucasus has become further destabilised. Attacks and armed clashes happen daily, and destabilisation is spreading to an increasingly large area. The extent of violence in the region is so great that it can already be stated that a de facto civil war is taking place, the warring parties being the Islamic armed underground movement which operates under the banner of the so-called Emirate of the North Caucasus, and the secular governments of the individual republics, who are supported by local and federal branches of the Russian Federation’s Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service. Moscow has no idea how to successfully tackle the Caucasus rebellion. Force has proved to be costly and unproductive, while the attempts made since early 2010 to integrate the region with the rest of Russia by implementing development programmes have not brought the desired results, because of widespread corruption and faint interest from businessmen who are afraid to invest in such an unsafe region. A growing problem for Moscow, particularly for the prestige of the state, is attacks by militants on areas near Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympics is to take place. It must be assumed that over the next 3 years before the Olympics, Moscow’s priority in the region will be to ensure the safety of Olympic preparations, and then the games themselves. It cannot be ruled out that the North Caucasus Federal District with its ‘troubled republics’ will be surrounded by a kind of cordon sanitaire (Sochi is situated in the neighbouring Southern Federal District). This could in turn strengthen these republics’ isolation, maintain the state of permanent instability, and postpone the prospects of solving the region’s acute economic and social problems.

Supporting Civil Society in Central Asia: What Approach for the EU? EUCAM Commentary No. 17, September 2011

The EU seems to move towards a regional focus in supporting civil society in Central Asia. This while the most urgent challenges of NGOs in the region are found in their national environment. Recent history and current developments explain why support for civil society initiatives on a national basis are needed more than ever in Central Asia.

School desegregation in Boston : a staff report prepared for the hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Boston, Massachusetts, June 1975.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of the Rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Principles of pleading, practice and procedure in civil actions in the High Court of Justice /

Includes bibliographical references.

The adventures of a soldier; or, Memoirs ... comprising narratives of the campaigns in the Peninsular [!] under the Duke of Wellington, and the recent civil wars in Spain.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historia ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti in rem theologiae candidatorum, per sex mundi aetates ab orbe condito ad notale usque Jesu Christi ... : opus ex tribus tomis in unum volumen redactum /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nicolai Vigelii ... Commentariorum iuris ciuilis annus tertius : De rerum dominio. De rei vendicatione [et] publiciana in rem actione. De possessione [et] De vsucapionibus. Eiusdem Disputationes IX, ex quibus maximus horum commentariorum vsus perspicitur.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historia ecclesiastica veteris testamenti in rem theologiae candidatorum : opus tribus tomis comprehensum & in unum volumen redactum /

Mode of access: Internet.