2001-2002 ESSAY CONTEST
Subject: Terrorism
Can it be stopped absent a valid definition
and can it be defined?

Open to college students and other individuals over age 18 in any country. Seniors in high school may participate under the same  rules and prizes offered for classes participating in the War and Peace contest. 

Participants should print the required reading and questions. They should answer questions 1 through 18 before beginning their essays. These questions offer guidance and ideas that might be helpful. Questions 19 and 20 should be answered after the essay has been completed. Answers must be submitted at the same time as the essay.

All participants will receive certificates and their essays and answers to questions will be published online. 

Prizes to individuals will be awarded at the discretion of the Harry Singer Foundation and will be announced after we have an idea of the number of participants. Please advise us via email of your intention to participate.

Papers and correspondence may be emailed to  staff@singerfoundation.org anytime before March 25, 2002. 

Rules For Individual Entries 

All essays must be in English and submitted via email. Do not send print copies. We will accept essays as attached MS Word documents, plain text or Rich Text Format (rtf) or as text copied into the body of an email. We are not responsible for documents that are lost or distorted during transmission or that reach us in a format that we cannot open.

Participating classes: please do not submit essays until all are ready. The body of the email should list the name of the school, school fax and phone numbers, teacher’s name and email address and the name of every student-participant exactly as he/she would like it to appear on a certificate. 

Essays must be checked for grammatical and spelling errors and be no less than 1000 words nor more than 2,000 words in length. The author’s name, city and country should appear at the top of the document. Please be sure to keep copies at your end.

Essays will be posted on the Foundation web site as they are read. Entries, upon submittal, become the property of The Harry Singer Foundation. 

If you have questions or problems: email  staff@singerfoundation.org or phone (831) 625-4223     fax (831) 624-7994 

Address surface mail correspondence to:

Essay Contest, The Harry Singer Foundation,
P.O. Box 223159, Carmel, CA 93922
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