ABSTRACT
Media outlets around the world are saturated with stories focused on security, war and terrorism. From many vantage points, East and West, in economically developed and less developed countries, fear and suspicion of outsiders has intensified into visceral hatred expressed in overt and covert acts of violence. Sorne acts of violence against outsiders are carried out by individuals, others are the actions of states using coercive force in both symbolic and in tangible ways to exclude certain groups and individuals. Sorne of these actions may well be justified. Many are not.
