Terrorism

The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments to bring about a change, often for ideological or political reasons.

Often use as a last resort to force the government to implement changes.

Reasons for such acts:
Political
+instigate the correction of a flawed system, foment the creation of a new system
Resilence agaisnt the dictators/gov bodies
+attacts on gov bodies
+attacks on military

Economical distress
poverty, unemployment, and land tenure problems
+ draw the gov's attention so that the gov can implement policies that may eventually lead to growth in the country.
-create chaos so as to make use of the opportunity to steal from shops in the midst of the chaos hoping to improve one's SOL

Social
-kills innocent (violates human right of victims) - innocent victims often worst of than the gulity
-threaten national security
-motive motivated by passion and belief which can result in irrational behaviours
-revenge to self's problem
-agaisnt moral values
+terrorist often used to represent people
-greed - uses weapon of disruption to rob.

Religious
-Religious fanaticism
When adherents to a religion get involved in a pattern of violently and potentially deadly opposition to anyone they do not agree with, they are sometimes branded as religious fanatics by their detractors
Basically violent opposition to people who opposes the terrorist's religious beliefs.
internation herald tribune- religious fanaticism

Prevention
Terrorism can never be wiped out, but there are some ways to prevent or counter possible acts of terrorism

Peace talk - diplomacy
Rise awareness
Increase national security
Be prepared - deter possible terrorist
Educate young - reduce social difference
Be more socially aware of people needs
Sometimes, government not giving in to previous acts of terrorism may reduce future acts as it does not give the citizen the idea that terrorising is the only way to get the things they want.


terrorism on a small scale, used as the sole method of struggle in order to provoke the masses into revolutionary action, is ineffective and often counterproductive and hence, cannot be justified. However, terrorism employed in conjunction with guerrilla warfare in a protracted war of liberation may well prove useful and therefore justified, as it did in Algeria and South Vietnam. (For an earlier statement of the same view, see Trotsky 1961: 48-59, 62-65.)
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