Content Topic 7: The Politics of difference: conflicts, genocide and terrorism

1. Distinguish between the concepts of genocide and mass atrocity and analyze the causes of genocide and mass atrocities in the modern world (e.g., conflicts over political power, historical grievances, manipulation of ideas about difference and fear by political forces).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9T5iGMjzok&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCiADFjQG0&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5CDL75Ydg&feature=emb_logo

2. Analyze the events, people and conditions that have given rise to international terrorism including the emergence of the global terror network Al-Qaeda, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and ISIS, and evaluate responses by governments and societies to international terrorist activity.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/