Homegrown Violent Extremism

a master policy paper 15 to 20 pages about (American Jihadists) – font 12 Double spaced based on the outline attached

will be a 15 – 20 page, in-depth study of a homeland security policy challenge of your choosing that will require the application of the materials studied and presented in this course. The policy paper must include citations to at least 10 books or journal articles, including the course books and/or lectures, as appropriate. “Wikipedia” should not be amongst cited sources.

course books:

Louise Richardson, What Terrorists Want, Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, (Random House, 2006)

The 9/11 Commission Report, Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

Gus Martin, Understanding Terrorism – Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues, 5th Edition (Sage Publications, 2016)

Erroll Southers, Homegrown Violent Extremism, (Anderson Publications, 2013)

Recommended book:

united state of Jihad ( peter bergen)

the policy paper based on the outline – focus on the policy recommendation and need to be explained in a professional way how this policy will help and use the citations to make the policy strongly useful

attachments:

outline

2 articles could be used for citations

Answer preview

The US has had to come alive to the gravity of danger that terrorism poses to the nation in causing deaths, injuring people, and damaging property. Essentially, any act of violence that targets members of the public in areas where they tend to congregate in large numbers is considered terrorism (Krueger, 2017). Given how rampant terrorist acts have become in recent years, the US government had to respond by creating elaborate counterterrorism policies that incorporated lessons from the past to prevent these heinous acts from occurring and mitigate the harm they cause to the nation. Conventionally, most terrorist acts in the West have been

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