HM.Frameworks: terrorism (wasRe: Case in Point-culturalModule:IslamicFu

I agree Rex, this is the most useful and needed approach at this stage of
our world--I think none of us can argue.
We are looking at the primary modules from US and 'terrorist' perspective.

If there is ever a time for technical AND non-technical experts to jump into
the pool, these next few days are it.

This is the general path I propose.

1) Identify the most relevant frameworks regarding current 'human conflict'
2) Detail them, from non-technical expert sources
3) Represent them through HumanML (RDF and XML)

After this, we can develop applications that can start to work of clarifying
the human factors involved.

HM.Frameworks (for our primary focus)
=======================

    Religion
        Sunni
        Shiite
           Islamic Fundamentalist
           Islamic Moderate
        Christian
           Catholic
           Protestant

    Political (Official)
         Palestine
         Afghanistan
         Iraq
         United States

    Political (Unofficial)
         Taliban
         Hamas
         Islamic Jihad

(Others: Greeks, Jordanians, Saudis, Yemenis, Morrocans, Canada, UK,
France,
Algerians, Tunisians, Libyans, Egyptians, Iranians, Indians,
Turkmenistanis, Uzbekhistantis, Azerbaijanis, Afghanis, Pakhistanis,
Gulf State nationals)

    Cultural
          Arab
          United States
              "New York" Culture

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com>
To: <humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: Case in Point-cultural Module:IslamicFundamentalism?

>
> The Subject Line here ends in a question mark because what I'm
> attempting to start is a discussion on how we can go about building
> such a culturalModule that is as accurate as possible. There are at
> least three major considerations in this effort that I can recognize
> at the moment.
>
> 1. To get accurate information requires at the least more than one
> active member of this broad cultural group, hopefully from more than
> one of the following sub-groups: national, schismatic, and ethnic
> that produce and harbor such humans. That includes but is not limited
> to, Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs, Lenbanese, Persians, Balkans, Slavs,
> Greeks Palestinians, Jordanians, Saudis, Yemenis, Morrocans,
> Algerians, Tunisians, Libyans, Egyptians, Iranians, Indians,
> Turkmenistanis, Uzbekhistantis, Azerbaijanis, Afghanis, Pakhistanis,
> Gulf State nationals and more.
>
> Does anyone believe these humans do NOT want to be heard and
> understood on their own terms?
>
> 2. For this, or any, culturalModule: we need a way to be perceived
> in our work as being, at the least, without ulterior motives or
> hidden agendas. We need to be perceived as unbiased, as setting our
> standards and goals at absolute unvarnished truth while acknowledging
> that such is not feasible or actually possible in totality.
>
> How our information can be used needs to be understood so that those
> who might be mistrustful understand that what we are doing is
> providing them with a way to be understood correctly, and thus to
> control how THEY are perceived. We need them to understand that this
> gives them a way to have some measure of control over how THEY can be
> used or misused, and how they can use this information to correct
> misuse or abuse or misinformation.
>
> 3. We must eliminate emotional connotations from coloring how such a
> culturalModule: is constructed.
>
> No mean feat.
>
> Ciao,
> Rex
> --
> Rex Brooks
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