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Extremist voluntary movements

Name(s):

NGO fundamentalism

Exclusive purist beliefs of members of non-government organizations

Militant NGO movements

Nature

The strength of beliefs in certain discretionary causes can give rise to excessive or extremist behaviour. People who do not agree with the movement's views are excluded, and even condemned, vilified or harmed.

Incidence

Recent examples are the willingness of members of environmental organizations to engage in illegal, even criminal behaviour, such as entering high security military compounds, or to take great personal risk, such as chaining themselves to trees which are to be removed by heavy equipment, or placing themselves in rubber dinghys between whaling boats and whales. Another example is the murder in 1993 of a USA doctor who performed abortions by an anti-abortion activist.

Broader

Extremism

Intolerant movements

National insecurity and vulnerability

Unethical practices of philanthropic organizations

Narrower

Violence by fanatical environmentalists

Reduces

Complicity with structural injustice

Aggravates

Foreign government intervention ^{[in 11 loops]}

Unfair restrictions on membership in international organizations

Aggravated by

Unjust laws

Exclusivity

Self-righteousness

Idealism of opposition groups

Loss of confidence in government leaders

Lack of realism in intergovernmental organizations

Strategy(ies)

Advocating culture of tolerance

Fundamentalism

Holding idealistic beliefs

Using extremism

Being exclusive

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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