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The act of terrorism, an unlawful use of violence and intimidation, is most commonly seen targeting civilians but can also include damage to property or injury to specific individuals. These malicious acts are used to fulfil political, religious or ideological aims in attempt of intimidating the government or society. Terrorisms’ impact reflects on the government and society extracting various responses, both legal and non-legal. The effectiveness of these responses, aimed at obtaining equal justice against terrorism, tend to vary while considering the concepts of preventing terrorist attacks while not infringing on human rights and the resolution of the ‘war against terrorism’. The evident lack of consistency in these responses has been reflected

In recent decades, society has been victim to one of the worst scourges ever known: terrorism, which is an expressive act of violence seen throughout history (conquests, wars) with varied forms of expression and cruelty. If a general definition of terrorism could be given it would be, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1269, a terrorist act is any act intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or other person not directly involved in armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by nature or context, is to intimidate a population or compel a government or international organization to do or abstain from any act.

Terrorism is most often described as an act of violence perpetrated against a civilian populace, with the intention to create awareness, or to bring about a political or religious goal. The form of terrorism found today is very different than the terrorism that existed in the nineties and earlier, most obviously because the groups now involved with it are unafraid of being killed. In fact, their religious ideals urge them to kill themselves in order to destroy the lives of people who do not agree with their views. This has created a war against an enemy that cannot be easily identified, can kill with no warning whatsoever, is well organized, and

First of all, we need to understand what terrorism is; terrorism is a threat or use of violence toward civilian targets to create fear with political motives to get attention for their cause. The victims of terrorist attacks have little value to the attackers. The victims represent a larger human audience and the terrorists seek that larger audience’s reaction to the attack (Crenshaw, 1981, pg. 379). Attention is the main goal of any terrorist attack. Sadly, as a democratic government we are likely to have more terrorism attacks. Unlike authoritarian governments, we can’t crack down and stop the spread of the issue (Warby). Social media is another factor that fuels the fire of terrorism. The moment anything happens, it is on social media and reaching everyone around the entire world within hours. The terrorists are getting exactly what

Dealing with the problem caused by terrorism is still an on-going process for the international community as there does not seem to be a compromised solution to the problem for all the actors involved in the problem. On a report written for the US Congress, there are several methods on how the international community and the US government are trying to combat terrorism and

The study of terrorism is as complex as the problem itself. How the many factors of terrorism, such as fear and popular support, are interwoven make this a difficult problem to understand, let alone defeat. With this in mind it becomes clear that understanding the problem is, perhaps, the all-important first step to defeating it. To that end, the five most important things about terrorism and counterterrorism I learned from this course are: 1) Our National Strategy for Counterterrorism is flawed, 2) Terrorism can be an effective tactic if executed properly, 3) Terrorism begets terrorism, 4) Media and terrorism are perpetually linked and 5) The importance of quickly collecting, analyzing and acting upon intelligence.

Terrorism is an evolving and multifaceted phenomenon (Lentini, 2003). Although there is no single definition that is received full approval from academic and governmental circle, most scholars and practitioners believe that the key idea of terrorism is a politically motivated violence against non-combatants that is designed to trigger fear and anxiety among them (Lentini, 2013; Schmid & Graaf, 1982).

Terrorism refers to the use of force or threat in order to create fear to the innocent citizens of a country, and the government. It is designed so as to bring some form of political change by targeting the innocent people ADDIN EN.CITE Deutch19971295(Deutch, 1997)1295129517Deutch, JohnTerrorismForeign PolicyForeign Policy10-221081997Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC00157228http://www.jstor.org/stable/1149086( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_5" o "Deutch, 1997 #1295" Deutch, 1997). Terrorist attacks can be executed by use of non-conventional weapons. These are weapons of mass destruction and are regarded as the most dangerous tactics used by terrorists. Non-conventional terrorism includes nuclear terrorism, chemical terrorism, biological terrorism and cyber terrorism ADDIN EN.CITE Huddy20021294(Huddy, Feldman, Capelos, & Provost, 2002)1294129417Huddy, LeonieFeldman, StanleyCapelos, TheresaProvost, ColinThe Consequences of Terrorism: Disentangling the Effects of Personal and National ThreatPolitical PsychologyPolitical Psychology485-5092332002International Society of Political Psychology0162895Xhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/3792589( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_6" o "Huddy, 2002 #1294" Huddy, Feldman, Capelos, & Provost, 2002). The increased levels of technology among the terror groups and the ability of members to sacrifice their lives have increased the danger of non-conventional terrorism ADDIN EN.CITE Laqueur19961298(Laqueur,

Nobody could ever imagine how frightful of the terrorism until it really happened. The major event that happened on September 11th, 2001 was the unexpected attack from the terrorists towards Americans. Not only Americans, but also the whole world was deep into fear. It’s not just the number of people died in the attack; it totally changed people view toward terrorisms from that point. The question is how and what should we do to dissuade this kind of attack for happening again in the future whether near or farther? In order to get the solution for this problem, we should examine terrorism from three different perspectives with the international environment, the state, and the individual in The War on Terror written by Patrick Coaty.

This social and political issue has plagued mankind for centuries, but has only recently come into the eyes of current world leaders. The events of September 11, 2001 brought this issue into the spotlight (What Is Terrorism? Pg. 1). Ladies and gentlemen, I am of course talking about the agonizing issue of terrorism. Although this issue has existed for centuries, the word "terrorism" has only begun being used in the second part of the 19th century (What Is Terrorism? Pg. 1). The earliest account of a terrorist act in the second part of the 19th century was in 1968 when a Palestinian terrorist hijacked an Israeli airliner (What Is Terrorism? Pg. 4). There are two other factors which aid terrorism: one being the media which informs the world

Terrorism has many trends in our today’s world, the enormity of the complexity of the numbers of terrorism and why some are combatted against and some just get away with whatever bad they did. Usually, there will be individual ways of lives that may traditionally opposed to the use of violence in addressing certain situations due to the inability of a total disregard or unwillingness of the society to engage with certain trouble makers in the world. Plus as the famous saying goes “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Because if a group of people that shared the same ideology are against one subgroup of people that they don’t identify with may result to violence or even negligence of some of those threats and violence by the central authorities running that particular place and these types of negligence resort to grievances that often escalates the rate of hatred, anger, bigotry among citizens of the same nation and may end up violent between groups that are not even known as a terrorist organization because vengeance and animosity and grievances all comes in different forms and people that embark on terrorism as a results of trends like these, may not necessary belong to well-known terrorists organizations.

To better understand terrorism we need to know what it is. Terrorism can be defined as the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has put terrorism into two categories: (GBRA, 2011)

Several books have wasted ink and money in attempting to define terrorism, what it is and why it happens. Terrorism has been present in our world since the earliest times of history and it can definitely not be seen as a novel occurrence. Usually when one tries to explain terrorism, the definition that emerges is ‘a holy duty’ and which has both a scheme as well as a strategy and it is seen as a justified reaction to maltreatment and unnecessary aversion. There are common patterns that are seen amongst terrorist activities and they all adapt to different forms such as kidnappings, threats, bombings, assassinations and airplane hijackings. At the end of the day, however, it all depends on whose point of view is being taken into consideration during this explanation. Terrorist organizations are usually considered to be small and are known to possess a secretive nature. This secretive nature tends to serve as an advantage to them when they attack since they do not provide their opponents with any clear organization to defend themselves or avert the attack. However, in a few cases, terrorism was used to maintain a war without the opponent ever recognizing the type of threat it poses to the country, thereby making terrorism a criminal activity.

Terrorism can strike not just large cities, but in any community of any size. While no amount of planning and mitigation can remove 100-percent of the risk from terrorism, hazard mitigation and preparedness can help reduce the risk. Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) categorizes terrorism in the U.S. as one of two types (Watson, 2002):

In order to thoroughly analyze the global fight against terrorism, it is imperative to first understand the definition of terrorism. Alex Woolf states that terrorism is the use of violence against civilians, in order to achieve political goals (Woolf 4). Such political goals include altering the government of a country, abolishing unfair laws passed by biased individuals in power, and changing the status quo of a society. As opposed to an act of war, terrorism involves excessive violence, and is generally targeted towards civilians and innocent bystanders. Smaller or weaker factions have utilized terrorism as a tactic to attract attention and attack governments (Woolf 8). Governments have also supported terrorism to suppress and control opposition groups and political parties (Woolf 8).