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World In Chaos: Terrorism
Education, Youth and Culture
Ministry Research Report
Cansu Dilek
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Committee Director: Cansu Dilek
Education, Youth and Culture Ministry
Welcome Letter From The Vice-President
Dear delegates,
I welcome you all to the second session of ACIMGE conference and
I am thrilled to serve you as your vice-president in this ministry. This
year’s team is terrorism which is one of the major issues in today’s world.
As we all know many terrorist activities are occurring nowadays and many
ministries are working to decrease the effects of terrorism.
I believe ACIMGE 2016 Education, Youth and Culture Ministry will
go great and we will find sustainable solutions to major world problems
and have fruitful debates.
Brief Explanation of the Ministry
Being one of the most important ministries; Education, Youth and
Culture Ministry is also one of the oldest. It is the executive branch of the
European Union and is responsible for many affairs such as policy on
education, culture, youth, languages, and sport. It also supports these issues
through a variety of projects and programmes.
Its general education missions focuses primarily on policy
cooperation; helping countries learn from one another and work together to
improve education across Europe. Sample NGOs which also has the same
goal that can be given are Association for Childhood Education (ACEI),
Campaign for Awareness Resilience and Education (CARE), Children
Education & Welfare Society (CEWS) and Youth Educational Network
(YEN).
It also manages the Creative Europe Programme, which finances
hundreds of programmes and supports many artists, actors, and musicians.
The aim of the activities on culture is to promote cultural diversity and
intercultural dialogue, culture as a catalyst for creativity, and European
culture as a vital part of external relations.
The youth activities aim is to give young people a voice and a stake
in society, strengthening their dialogue with policy makers and ensuring
they are represented in EU policy-making. It has newly adopted resolutions
on EU Work Plan for Youth which focuses on how to address more
promptly and effectively the continuing high youth unemployment rates
and the consequences of the crisis on young people and the support of the
political participation of young people in European democratic life.
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The Ministry’s Approach To This Year’s Crises Theme
This Year’s theme is "World in Chaos: Terrorism". Since the
ministry is the Education, Youth and Culture ministry, it plays a key role.
In case of a terrorist attack the ministry has the ability to inform and
educate the citizens about the attack and also the terrorist groups. The
ministry mainly takes action after terrorist attacks such as youth
unemployment, education of migrants, youth policy and youth work with
regards to migration, education, creating awareness and decreasing the
cultural discriminations because of terrorist groups.
There was a bombing in Paris in November 2015 when ISIS
killed 130 French civilians by only 9 people. The Education, Youth and
Culture Ministry paid tribute to the victims with a minute of silence. All
ministers addressed their condolences to the French minister of Education,
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, and to all the relatives of the victims.
Luxemburg’s Education, Youth and Culture Minister Claude Meisch,
stated that “We can prevent marginalisation and radicalisation of young
people by reducing early school leaving and enabling all young people to
participate in our societies, giving them the opportunity to foster our
common European values.” And underlined the importance of education in
an early age and teaching the European values which are the Education,
Youth and Culture Ministry’s main goal.
Many terrorism acts are increasing in today’s world. Education
Ministry of Malaysia incorporated anti-terrorism teachings into their
education system. The Malaysian government has decided that lessons will
be added to school’s subjects in order to teach the youth about terrorism in
an early age. "We are ready to work with police to have briefings for our
students," Malaysia's deputy education minister, Chong Sin Woon, told
Channel NewsAsia. According to Chong, parents of school-going children
are more than accepting of this new idea, with most asking the authorities
to specifically educate the students on what these terrorists, especially
members of the ISIS do. Just like the Malaysian Education Ministry, the
same acts can be taken by the European Education Ministries as well.
Although joining to the terrorist groups are less in Europe than Malaysia, to
decrease the rate more, lessons or subjects may be added to school’s
curriculum.
On May 2015 a meeting was organized by the French delegation
after the terrorist attacks in Paris and a declaration which called the
education ministries to play its part in preventing radicalisation by
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promoting citizenship and fostering social inclusion, and common
European values such as tolerance and mutual respect also the French
minister stated that employability can be promoted which the help of
citizenship education.
The Commission included in its European Agenda on Security
(8293/15) a reference to illicit trafficking of cultural objects as an area
where additional measures might be needed to prevent terrorist financing.
Europol has also set-up a specific task force to deal with the trafficking of
cultural objects.
Case Study
Being the winner of
the Cold War, US had
become the super power
before September 11,
2001. In economic terms
US holded a large part of
the world’s wealth and
became the dominant force
directing world politics
and economic activities.
US’s relation with the Islamic World wasn’t bright, and US was the major
country which provided support to the dictatorial regimes in Islamic
countries. However, some of the Islamic communities were not pleased
with US’s imperial impositions. A significant majority of these
impositions, especially among Muslims, found these unacceptable both
socially and economically.
Not only the religious people were unhappy with US’s actions but
also the terrorist groups were. Al Qaeda had their reasons for the attack in
September 11. These claims are as follows; US was the reason for the
exploitation of the wealth of Islamic countries for many years, stole oil
from them, made sacred Mecca and Medina bases that violate sacred sites,
started wars in many countries and caused many people’s deaths, attacked
Iraq and killed many Muslims, caused approximately 500 thousand
children’s deaths because of their embargos to Iran, used its veto power in
the UN vote on every decision which was against Israel, supported Israel in
military and economic ways, mercilessly killed thousands of people in
Japan with their atom bomb, was a key supporter of the authoritarian rulers
of Islamic countries. According to Al-Qaeda any of these actions taken by
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US was a valid reason to provide adequate justification and Islamic basis
for the shooting of the US.
So how did Al Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden get the idea of
hitting the twin towers? We can find the answer in Bin Laden’s October
2004 speech to American public where he highlighted September 11:
“In 1982, US gave permission for Israel to invade Lebanon and
American 3rd filo assisted this occupation, killed many people by bombing
them, scared them and left them homeless; this affected me a lot (Sabra and
Shatila massacre). I still can’t forget the impressive landscapes; blood,
mangled bodies, bodies of women and children spread all over... All of the
houses were destroyed and bombs were dropping as if it was rain to the
residents. The scene was like a child who got swallowed by a crocodile and
had nothing to do besides screaming... Does a crocodile understand
something other than a weapon? The whole world saw and heard these
difficult moments, but I did not do anything beyond. At the time feelings
that I cannot describe occurred to me. This; gave me a consciousness to
strongly reject the persecution and aroused strong commitment on behalf of
the punishment of oppressors.
When I look at the ruined towers in Lebanon I remember the cruelty
they did and this gave me a strong desire to punish them with the same
thing with what they have done. In order to deter them from killing our
women and children I wanted them to at least taste a portion of our pain by
destroying the twin towers. I thoroughly understood that in those days, the
killing of innocent children and women and injustice 'based on the laws of
the United States' threat of 'freedom and democracy', their possible
resistance 'terrorism and backwardness'.
Millions were kept under embargo until death and persecution.
Thanks to Bush Sr. because of the embargo on Iraq, millions of people and
children died. Thus the
history of mankind had
witnessed the most horrible
massacre
of
children.
Millions of tons of bombs
have been dropped on
children to bring new
collaborations and discharge
former collaborators in Iraq
which Bush Jr. did and as a
result of more terrible
views, in response to these
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major grievances; events of September 11 occurred. Can a man be
reprimanded for his defense? Is self-defense and respond the same manner
to injustice a condemned terror? If so, we have to do this. Here, this is the
message we tried to convey to you verbally and practically for years before
September 11. If you like you can see this message from our interviews in
1996 Times Magazine with Scott, in 1997 CNN with Peter Arnett, in 1998
with Johnny Hatter, or practically from my meeting with Nairobi,
Tanzania, Aden or Abdulbari Atvan or even with my meeting with Robert
Fist who I describe himself as neutral but he is actually on your side. I
wonder if the freedom contenders in the White House and the channels
which are submitted to them would give an interview about what they
understood from our reasons of the war we started against you to the
American public. If you steer clear of these reasons, you are on the right
track to restore security in America before September 11.”
Although Osame bin Laden was declared as a terrorist by mainly the
US and Western countries by many sectors; Vecdi Ganim -the Arab
world’s reputable savant- made a speech about Laden’s death and stated
that Laden’s reasons offered for his attacks in September 11 and his
continuous general war were actually fully acceptable. Ganim made a
reference to US’s persecution in Muslim lands and in the world saying:
“Who is the terrorist who killed millions of children? Of course America! It
is holding the crusader war! America, George Bush! Who occupied
Afghanistan, Iraq? America! America! Who is helping the Jewish
occupiers against our people in Palestine? Terrorist America! Who is
bombing the weddings and condolence meetings with drones in
Afghanistan? Terrorist America! The ones
who are killing the innocents isn’t Osame bin
Laden it is themselves. Who hit the Shifa
pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan? Who is the
only country to use the atomic bomb?
America threw an atomic bomb during the 2nd
World War to Japan’s Hiroshima and
Nagasaki cities. Who is the only country in
the world to torture prisoners –in Guantanamo- without being taken into
court? America! Which country entered into Pakistani territory in a
barbaric way -Pakistan was also their ally in the operation- and attempted
an operation? America!”
The attacks that took place in America in September 11, 2001 and
resulted with the deaths of nearly 3000 people, the property damage was of
course redoubtable. Al Qaeda’s leader bin Laden briefly referred these
damages as follows;
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Cost of attacks on US Economy
Destruction of goods due to the attacks, and the total cost of
materials such tools is $ 100 billion. America's total loss due to the
September 11 attacks has been calculated as $ 2 trillion. World Trade
Centre was insured for $ 4 billion. 4 planes used in the attacks were 385
million dollars. $ 1 billion in damage occurred at the Pentagon. Cleaning
costs held $ 1.3 billion. The money that was spent from the Emergency
Fund was $ 40 billion. Immediately after the attack directly 83 thousand
people lost their jobs and caused a damage of $ 17 billion.
Only the damage occurring for reasons such as infrastructure in the
city of New York, lost business, and tax losses were $ 95 billion, insurance
payments were $ 40 billion, tax losses due to the harm of the airlines was
10 billion dollars.
The September 11
attacks caused damage in
the US stock market the
most. US stocks suffered a
loss in the first week of the
attacks that was $ 1.4
trillion. This rate is
equivalent to $ 1.74 trillion
in today's conditions. US
Airlines'
passenger
transport
capacity,
decreased by 20% due to
the bankrupt of many
airline companies.
In order to identify
the damage caused by the
attack a committee which
was chaired by the
professor of economics
from University of Hawaii
Carl Bonham prepared a report which stated; ‘Because of Al Qaeda’s
attack it is described the devastating effects still continue losing blood and
aggression.’
1,000 aircraft used in the aviation industry before September 11, has
been parked in the hangar in the Arizona desert because of the bankruptcy
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of the company. The total loss in the aviation sector in US only in 2001,
passed 11 billion dollars. The government has earmarked $ 15 billion for
such purposes as tax relief and damages for this sector.
Tourism
In the reports 24th page it is noted that the statistical tables of detailed
figures, the number of international visitors to 51 million in the United
States in 2000 seems to fall to 46 million. Therefore, the attack in the
United States has lost 5 million tourists in 2001 and this continued until
2004 losses respectively. In 2002, 43,5 million (-7%); in 2003, 41,2 million
(-10%) and in 2004, 46,1 million (-5%).
US’s loss after the attacks on foreign tourists has only reached 27
million in total until 2004. If every tourist spends an average of 5-7
thousand dollars -transportation and accommodation is included-, US’s
only loss of tourism, is even billions of dollars.
Only the events of September 11 in New York due to the
compensation of the damage, the construction of the destroyed Pentagon,
the money paid to the victim and some other costs have been attributed to
296.2 billion dollars to the American government. This figure covers only
the years of 2002-2003.
With the September 11 attacks; US’s budget for security inside the
country has increased significantly from year to year. US spent internal
security costs in total of 1 billion US dollars between 2001-2004, and
respectively, this figure has increased as follows: In 2002, 20.7 million
dollars, in 2003, 36.6 million dollars and in 2004, 41.3 million dollars.
These figures are the figures showing only the costs incurred until
2004. In the next 6 years, security weaknesses and threats to the US has
grown and their costs have increased rapidly in parallel.
Health Care Costs
A report was prepared by Michael R. Bloomberg named
ADDRESSING THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF 9/11 which examined the
health costs due to the September 11 attacks. It was written that in only one
year 392 million dollars were spent on the treatment of victims of the
attacks. These chronic conditions excludes long-term treatment includes
only short-term treatments. The last 10 years until 2011, and corresponds to
3.92 billion dollars.
The report states that to repair the collapsed debris removal of New
York; $ 20 billion was spent. After September 11, it was determined that a
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total of 900 people died due to cancer, trauma and poisoning. These people
are the ones that present an urgent response to the incident who are firefighters and rescue teams.
Because of the attack the insurance industry suffered between 58 and
30 billion dollars in losses. Al Qaeda prepared a report to present it to the
American Congress in October 5, 2004 where they stated their strategy’s
most important factor; undermine the American and European economies
and make attacks harder to spawn and even the collapse of the functioning
of the capitalist system which was ‘to break the enemy's economic waist’.
2,973 people lost their lives in the attacks and their future production
value was calculated to be 7.8 billion dollars.
Results
On September 11, 2001 the attacks in America’s New York and
Manhattan states, was the reason to start a new era in the world, literally.
The immediate aftermath of these events, the occupation of Afghanistan
and Iraq by the United States has occurred and this divided the Muslim
world. Perhaps the most important reason for the September 11 events is
that one part is defining it as 'the starting point' and the other part is
defining it as a 'result'.
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