1) You could very well add Christian Fundamentalists. Their position
will have to be watched for the next few weeks - and they sometimes commit
acts of terrorism on their own. cf Northern Ireland, anti-abortion in the
USA, bombings in France in 1985 or 7, etc.
2) Taleban, though not recognised by any other but 3 countries, is to
be considered the official government of Afghanistan due to the lack of
proper opposition inside the 80% or so of the land they occupy. Opposition
outside that zone is in great trouble and, though it has been recognised
as a political faction by the European Union, it cannot be considered as
a government.
.
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
> --
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