Terrorism
One of the greatest challenges of our time, terrorism has grown as a security threat for countries all over the world. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Terrorism” feature reporting on international terrorist organizations such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, Hamas and Hezbollah and the impact of terrorism of its victims. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on terrorism.
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Lesson Plans
Assessing Our Understanding of the Fragmentation of Religious Authority in Select Middle Eastern Societies
Students learn about the fragmentation of religious authority in Middle Eastern countries. They then create polls to assess their peers’ understanding of Islamic terrorist recruitment strategies.
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From smugglers in Agadez, to factory owners in Turkey, to the Italian and Nigerian mafias in Italy...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Elisabeth Zerofsky
Journalist Elisabeth Zerofsky describes her research into France's new deradicalization programs...
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These lesson plans present close reading, writing, discussion, and hands-on activities that explore "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart," Scott Anderson's New York Times Magazine story.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Education Programs Connect Thousands of Students to "Fractured Lands"
Thousands of students in schools, colleges and universities all over the world are connecting to...
November 8, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Chicago High School Devotes Eight Weeks to "Fractured Lands"
A 9th grade teacher describes how exploring "Fractured Lands" provided her students with a much...
November 7, 2016 -
To counter terrorism, the Pakistani government has started executing all those convicted of...
![The author Tan Hecheng stands on "Widow's Bridge," where dozens of people were clubbed to death and thrown into the river in a wave of genocide that took place in 1967. These sorts of hidden histories still haunt the new superpower. Image by Sim Chi Yin/ VII Photo Agency. China, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-13-17/tan-hecheng-bridge.jpg.webp?h=fa9f5d17&itok=rUYjoahy "The author Tan Hecheng stands on "Widow's Bridge," where dozens of people were clubbed to death and thrown into the river in a wave of genocide that took place in 1967. These sorts of hidden histories still haunt the new superpower. Image by Sim Chi Yin/ VII Photo Agency. China, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-07-16/screen_shot_2016-11-07_at_7.24.23_pm.png.webp?h=0f258918&itok=v752Cbmr "Students at Whitney M. Young Magnet School, a public high school in Chicago, IL, create a timeline mapping out the events described in "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart" by Scott Anderson. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. United States, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-07-16/fractured_lands_timeline_6th_pd_1.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=DaVjFFjI "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-17-16/img_0488.jpg.webp?h=55b8b086&itok=lo-s3ijt "China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative runs across the restive province of Xinjiang to the Pakistan border, pictured here, gateway to the rest of China's economic ambitions to invest across Central Asia along the ancient Silk Road. Image by Alice Su. China, 2015.")
