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4-2 Project One

4-2 Project One

Q Competency In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency: • Analyze the historical evolution of homegrown terrorism and extremism in the United States Scenario You are a consultant for a government agency who has been asked to create a training that explains how homegrown terrorism has evolved over time as well as how and why the motives behind acts of terror have also evolved. Directions In this project, you will examine the historical evolution of homegrown terrorism in the United States in order to create a training for government employees. This training will be used to help these employees understand not only how homegrown terrorism has evolved over time but also why it has evolved. Your training should address each of the following: 1. In the first part of your presentation, explain the difference between homegrown terrorism and domestic acts of violence. In 100 to 150 words for each question, answer each of the following: 1. What are some of the key differences between homegrown terrorism and domestic acts of violence? 2. Why are these differences important to understanding how homegrown terrorism begins? 2. In the next part of your presentation, describe motives of homegrown terrorism. In 100 to 150 words, answer the following: 1. What are some common motivations of homegrown terrorists? 3. Then, create a timeline that identifies key turning points in the evolution of homegrown terrorism. Your timeline should include at least five different turning points. 4. Using each of the turning points you identified in your timeline, explain how homegrown terrorism motives changed over time. Your explanations should each be approximately 75 to 100 words in length and should address each of the key turning points identified in your timeline. 5. In the final part of this presenation, describe why homegrown terrorism motives evolve over time. In 100 to 150 words, answer each of the following: What are some of the key factors that can cause an evolution in the motives of homegrown terrorism? Why are these factors significant specifically to homegrown terrorism motives? What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following: PowerPoint or other visual with speaker notes or written explanations to support each area. Any sources should be cited according to APA style.

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Differences between Homegrown terrorism and Domestic acts of violence ?Homegrown terrorism is inspired by a radical intolerant ideology therefore these ideologies motivate the violence done while domestic acts of violence have no radical ideology behind them. ?The violence caused by homegrown terrorism represents the descriptor of the act, that is a terrorist while the violence in the Domestic acts of violence is merely an outcome and does not represent the descriptor of the act (Schutt,2018). ?Violence in homegrown terrorism occurs in a classic triangle where the terror group (Party A) attacks innocent civilians or police (Party B) to coerce the government (Party C) to change its stance on certain aspects unlike domestic acts of violence (Gordon,2017).