Caless (2012) defines terrorism as " the threat or use of violence to further a political agenda for change by inducing widespread fear". However‚ experts have been debating over a clear definition for terrorism for over 100 years. Although the word was first used over 200 years ago when discussing the Reign of Terror (Whitaker‚ 2001). Consequently‚ there have been over 100 definitions offered for terrorism (Laqueur‚ 1977‚ cited in Martin‚ 2013). Alex Schmid ’s (2004) research also illustrates
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Is Terrorism Ever Justified? “Terrorism has no justification‚ no matter what pretext terrorist use for their deeds.” Says Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour‚ a Tunisian Culture and Preservation of Heritage Minister. (UN News Centre.) Many people view terrorism the same way as Ben Achour‚ especially in America. But there are also many of those‚ such as Alan Dershowitz‚ who counter with questions like‚ “Is ‘terrorist’ just a negative version of ‘freedom righter’?” and “How are civilian deaths in terrorism
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Effects of Terrorism to a Country Terrorism affects a country in many ways. They affect the economy and the population living in that country. Economical effect Financial Market There is no doubt among economists that wars‚ terrorism and political instability have a significant negative effects on the economies in which they take place. Recent economic literature investigates both the consequences of political violence and the mechanisms that transform this violence into economic damage. The
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PAKISTAN AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM Fazal-ur-Rahman Following the events of 9/11‚ Pakistan joined the US-led international coalition against terrorism. As a result of Pakistan’s sustained support and relentless efforts‚ the international coalition against terrorism has been able to achieve significant success in the war on terrorism. Pakistan’s contribution in the war against terrorism has been acknowledged across the world. The US leadership termed Pakistan as a ‘crucial ally’ of the US and
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Can Terrorism be Eradicated? Terrorism is the use of fear and violence in order to spread specific political or religious beliefs. Terrorism is often a last resort method for groups because they see that creating chaos is the only way to bring attention to the cause that they believe in. Terrorism cannot be completely eradicated because no matter what actions are taken‚ someone’s fundamental beliefs will not be changed; however‚ if the root causes that drive people to joining terrorist groups are
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Terrorism and counterterrorism are reasonably accredited areas to study because of all of the terrorism in the world (Roberts 2014). Terrorism can be examined from many different perspectives. To build on that point terrorism can be studied from a sociological perspective. Turk (2004) argues that sociology is a social construction. When society labels certain events as terrorism the government will begin to apply these labels (Turk 2004). If a powerful government‚ like the United States of America
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Terrorism has been around for centuries. It has evolved from its beginning and as time passes the strategies and techniques change. Every terrorist uses a certain cause as an excuse to justify their terror attacks. Just because someone is a terrorist isn’t doesn’t mean that they have mental issues. They believe that they are following God’s will and will find themselves in paradise for carrying out these activities. Terrorism in the Middle East has its roots in the Arab-Israeli conflict that
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TERRORISM; THE QUESTION OF DEFINITION ’However certain the facts of any science may be and however just the ideas we may have formed of these facts‚ we can only communicate false impressions to others while we want words by which these may be properly expressed ’ A. Lavoisier1 Introduction Despite the events of 11 September and the ongoing ‘War on Terrorism’ there remains no agreed definition of terrorism. Academics‚ scientists‚ military experts‚ the media‚ governments and security experts
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Terrorism Threats The World Content Page Introduction 3 Brief description of Al-Qaeda and the War Against Terror 3 History of establishing Al-Qaeda 3 Al-Qaeda’s Goals and Ideology 4 Starting the War Against Terror 4 Al-Qaeda’s Networks 5 Al-Qaeda’s Financial Networks 5 Al-Qaeda’s communicated Networks 6 Psychological Impacts of Al-Qaeda 6 Conclusion 7 References 8 Introduction The end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union did not bring the
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understand thanks to the master minds who post it on the internet. Some of these people include journalist‚ historian’s professors and other fellow students. It wasn’t till I had to write this paper that all of that went out the window. I decided I wanted a challenge but this time I out did my self. The purpose of this essay was to talk about terrorism in a certain place in the world. I chose Northern Ireland since I know nothing about it other than there is Irish people and that they celebrate
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