For this research paper/case study, on a homegrown violent extremist from North America, Eric Rudolph, and write a 3-5 page research paper by developing a case study on Eric Rudolph the right-wing Atlanta Olympics bomber 1996,
that addresses the four subject areas below:
What was the individual or groups grievance or cause?
1. How was the individual or most group members recruited or draw to the cause?
2. What was the process of radicalization? Which model discussed in this course most closely followed your case?
3. What was the result of the extremism and how did the case end?
This assignment addresses the following objectives:
Describe the psychological factors of terrorism as well as the ideologies that drive homegrown violent extremism.
Compare and contrast the different models and framework for the radicalization process.
Examine case studies of homegrown violent extremism in North America
Technical Requirements:
• Make sure you read the instructions carefully and that you focus the paper on answering the assigned questions. This assignment is a research paper, not an opinion paper, so you need to use scholarly sources to support your thesis
• Use formal academic writing and do not use the first person such as ‘I’ or ‘my’
• Make sure you use APA style 7th edition
• You are welcome to use supplementary sources to compliment the assigned readings based upon your research, but make sure you use only scholarly and credible sources (do not use open websites and you never want to use wikipedia). Also, dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as general news sites (like CNN) are NOT appropriate
Academic Requirements:
– Make sure your paper content meets the minimum acceptable length listed above with FULL pages of text, not including the Title or Reference pages.
– Written according to the APA 7th edition style and format (parenthetical in-text citation formats only; not end notes or footnotes)
– Use Times New Roman 12 point font
– 1 inch margins on all sides with no paragraph indentation other than the first line by .5 inches
– Double space all text (no extra lines or spaces after a paragraph or section headings and no added font sizes or lines either)
– At least 2 scholarly sources per page of content
