Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
This course provided an introduction to the global issues of security, conflict and terrorism.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Kersti Niilus
School of Business and Governance
Murdoch University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Interpret the nature of security by examining the relationship between humans, states and security threats.
- Describe some of the key characteristics of conflict between states and non-state actors.
- Investigate and discuss responses to conflict by the international community.
- Identify political violence and specific characteristics of terrorist violence.
- Report on policy implications of understanding terrorism as a form of political violence.
- Explore the theories behind radicalisation and summarise how they influence government policy.
Syllabus
- Concept of security
- Terminology used in security studies
- Threats to security
- How conflict has changed
- Drivers of conflict
- Conflict and global politics
- Characteristics of political violence
- Characteristics of terrorism
- Responses to terrorism
- Theories of radicalisation
Issued on 25th September 2020
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