Terrorism as a Political Strategy

March 1, 1986

 

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Moderator:
Mr. Don Jennings
Program Co-Chair, The Tufts Colloquium on Terrorism

Misconceptions of the Gandhian Political Struggle: Non-Violent Non-Cooperation and Political Violence in India"
Professor Sugata Bose
Department of History, Tufts University, an expert on modern South Asian history and politics

The FLN: Algeria as a Prototype of Revolutionary Terrorism
Professor Martha Crenshaw
Wesleyan University, works include Revolutionary Terrorism, The FLN in Algeria 1954-1962; editor Terrorism, Legitimacy, and Power: The Consequences of Political Violence

Terrorism, Civil War & National Liberation - The Struggle of the IRA
Professor J. Bowyer-Bell
Research associate, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; works include The Secret Army: A History of the IRA: 1916-1979; Terror Out of Zion: Irgun, LEHI and the Palestine Underground; and A Time Out of Terror: How Democratic Societies Respond to Revolutionary Violence

Neo-Anarchic Terrorism in Western Europe: The Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades...
Professor Donald Bell
Department of History, Tufts University, an expert on Western European political violence

The Sendoro Luminoso Maoist Terror in Peru
Mr. Gustavo Gorriti
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, executive news editor for Caretas, Lima Peru.

From the ERP to the Military Junta: Argentina, a Laboratory of Terror - A Witness' Account
Mr. Robert Cox
Editor of Buenos Aires Herald from 1969-1979, author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping: A Preliminary Study of the Argentine Press in a Time of Terror; Associate Editor of the Charlestown News and Courier