Case 7. Lessons on terrorism. The ISS is one of the only African organizations with a seat at global counter-terrorism forums. ISS experts directly advise the UN on counter-terrorism strategy and work with civil society to ensure the economic and social causes of extremism are included in the policy debate. https://issafrica.org/about-us/press-releases/lessons-from- africa-on-terrorism What are the root causes for global terrorism? How are we to deal appropriately of terrorism? Are there with the global phenomenon any solutions? You should fill in the checklist, and then attempt to answer the questions you have posed in each case to decide whether the incident would count as terrorism. Cases 1. A paramilitary group seeking independence blows up the military headquarters of the occupying force. The group's warning that there will be a bombi ng is ignored, and many people, civilian as well as military, are killed. 2. Rebels seeking to set up an independent state fi re at occupying troops from concealed positions. 3. Members of a particular ethnic or religious group are killed in order to frighten other members of their group into fleeing territory. 4. A radical group makes a list of opponents it believes should be killed and distributes it to sympathizers, telling them that they will be rewarded in heav en for defending the innocent if they carry out these assassinations. 5. More than a dozen undercover agents of the stat e are killed in one day by a radical rebel group. 6. A government routinely "disappears," tortures, an d murders civilians as well as political and military leaders whom it suspects of opposing the regime. 7. A militant religious group attacks, among others, women it feels are acting in an immodest fashion in public in order to pressure other women to behave in a certain way. 8. Religious militants attack members of the government, including an assassination attempt on the president. The government responds by sending in troops and destroying an urban area where the religious militants are based, killing more than 10,000 people in the process, including many civilians. 113