TERRORISM

DEFINITION OF TERRORISM
• Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence
against person or Property to intimidate or
coerce o government, the civilian population, or
any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or
social objectives.
• Terrorism is the unlawful use of, or threatened
use of force or violence against individuals or
property to coerce and intimidate government or
societies, often to achieve political, religious or
ideological objectives.
 TYPES OF TERRORISM
• National Terrorism involves groups whose
terrorist activities are directed at elements of
our government without foreign involvement.
• International terrorism involves groups whose
terrorist activities are foreign-based and
directed by countries or groups outside. The
United States. Sept. 11 is an example of
International Terrorism.
 CAUSES OF TERRORISM
• Social and political injustice
• The belief that violence or its threat will be
effective
• Religious
• Illiteracy
• Injustice
• Poverty
Social and political injustice:
People choose terrorism when they are trying to
right what they perceive to be a social or political or
historical wrong—when they have been stripped of their
land or rights, or denied these.
The belief that violence or its threat will be effective
Another way of saying this is: the belief that violent
means justify the ends. Many terrorists in history said
sincerely that they choose violence after long
deliberation, because they felt they had no choice.
Religious:
perhaps the most commonly held belief today is
that terrorism is caused by religion. Though it is not the
main cause for terrorism, religion does play a significant
role in driving some forms of it. Many terrorist get wrong
understanding in religion. Since 1980, there has been an
increase in terrorist activity motivated by religion.
Illiteracy:
Lack of education amongst the people has been
put forward as a prime reason of terrorism. Uneducated
person are easy to be persuaded to commit the crime
because they have no high ability of thinking. Many
terrorists believe crazy things; they're more likely to do
crazy things.
Injustice:
Injustice is a cause of terrorism. People get
offended and hurt by the justice system that they choose
to resort to acts of violence in order to protest the
ongoing injustice. There is no cure to fixing the justice
system to ensure that everyone is happy, but injustice is a
cause of terrorism.
Ethnicity:
It can be defined as deliberate violence by a
subnational ethnic group to advance its cause. Such
violence usually focuses either on the creation of a
separate state or on the elevation of the status of one
communal group over others. Designed to foster identity
as well as to advance standard political goals, ethnic
terrorism is often directed against symbolic targets
 IMPACT OF TERRORISM
• Economic impact: loss of life, infrastructures,
and business. Government spending on
security
• Social impact: create atmosphere of
suspicion, fear, and panic all around
• Political impact: makes world politics more
complicated and difficult
Economic impact:
we can see that every terrorism event always
killed the innocent people, destroyed public
properties, and individual properties. The large
amount of money has been used to repair the loss
of infrastructures. The investigators are afraid to do
the business because they worry about safety.
Government spending on security has also
increased. For example, September 11 Attacks
• Loss of life and property cost insurance
companies close to US$40 Million
• Losses of business to the airline industry as
people were afraid of flying following the incidents.
Society impact:
Terrorism poses a serious law and order problem
and leads to disintegration of society. The incident of
murder, torture, mutilation, kidnapping, arson and
extortion create atmosphere of suspicion, fear and panic
all around. Life becomes uncertain. The terrorists kill
unarmed civilians including women and children.
Political impact:
In general, terrorism makes world politics more
complicated and difficult. This is because terrorism can
cause very important problems even though terrorist
groups are not clearly linked to states. The presence of
non-state actors who can have a real impact on the world
makes world politics more difficult.
 SOLUTIONS TO COUNTER THE
TERRORISM
Education:
education is a primary solution to terrorism. The
government should educate the people to understand the
differences in culture, religion, belief, and human
behaviors. All people should think of the peace, freedom
and equality of all human beings, not just “their group of
people”
Understand about terrorists:
the solution is to find out the problem why a
terrorist doesn't feel guilty and why he was forced to be
a terrorist. It may be some injustice done to him. Hatred
spreads hatred only. It may be conquered by love only.
Eliminate the root of terrorism:
The way this world is attacking terrorism is
funny. Every country is doing something to kill
terrorism, but they still cannot eliminate all
terrorist. They can kill some terrorists today, but
they cannot kill the other terrorist tomorrow or
after tomorrow. They should try to find the root
of terrorism, and they have to eliminate it. Black
money is the main root cause of terrorism
because terrorists can do nothing without
money, so the government should find who
support the terrorist.