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Motives of Suicide Terrorism
Mensatorisová, Martina ; Makariusová, Radana (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the master thesis is to identify factors on which a motivation of individual, rather terrorist organization is based for committing of suicide attacks as a social phenomenon, that appears to be a priori incomprehensible in the context of European culture setting. The secondary aim of the thesis is to distinguish an eventual difference of motivation between female suicide attackers and male suicide attackers. For these purposes, two terrorist organizations have been analysed within two separately designed case studies, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Hamas for those the suicide attacks have represented the real "modus operandi" and simultaneously engaged women to their suicide missions. These terrorist organizations have been systematically analysed in terms of cultural, political, economic and organizational and social-psychological factors. The levels of analysis used, represent a synthetized reflection of existing theoretic treatment of suicide terrorism issue. The resulting findings confirm, first of all, the fact, that suicide terrorism phenomenon constitutes considerably complicated social phenomenon, whose central motive appears to be political, more precisely nationalistic. However its strength and effectiveness are largely interconnected with other motives, both cultural,...
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Analysis of the impact of high schools on the political thinking of students
Schmödl, Jan ; Lechner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jurčík, Radek (referee)
This thesis analyzes the impact of high schools on the political thinking of students. For the analysis are used theoretical concepts of assumptions of indoctrination of educational system. Furthermore empirical indicators, which can draw attention to the indoctrination of the educational system. Also there is an experiment which was created for the analysis and is taking place at 22 high schools in three regions of the Czech Republic. Results of the analysis indicate that the problem of indoctrination in the education system is very serious, however, difficult to prove. The analysis failed to confirm the effect of high schools on the political thinking of students, but managed to make a picture of the danger of indoctrination in the education system, about its potential and options.
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