Summary: Terrorism And Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory And Practice

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• How many people were killed according to the US Department of State in terrorist attacks worldwide in the year 2012?

  Between 10.000-20.000

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• 1.2 A worldwide phenomenon p.20

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• What is the Global Terrorism Database?

  It is one of the very few databases that has collected data on terrorism for a long time. It is from the Unicreisyt of Maryland.

• What is new about today's terrorism?

  The use of suicide vests (killing of innocent civilians; the transnational nature; assassination of heads of state is not new).

• What is defines an terrorism according to the GTD?

  An act of terrorism is an intentional act of violence or threats of violence by a non-state actor, and it has to meet two of the following three criteria:
  

  1. The violent act was aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal;
  2. The violent act included evidence of an intention to coerce, intimidate, or convey some other message to a larger audience (or audiences) other than immediate victims; and
  3. The violent act was outside the precepts of International Humanitarian Law. 
     

• In what countries poses terrorism a strategic threat - seriously challenging political and social order - in the last few years?

  Among others:
  
  

  • Iraq
  • Pakistan
  • Afghanistan
  • India
  • the Philippines
  • Thailand
  • Nigeria
  • Yemen
  • Syria
  • Somalia
  • Egypt

  
  These countries all score high in terrorist fatalities and injuries. None of these are Western countries. In the EU, only four fatalities were counted by the GTD in 2013.

• Which decade is according to David Rapoport, regarded as the Golden Age of Assassanation?

  1890s

• Which groups are associated with the third wave of terrorism?

  PLO / RAF

• 1.4 Why no general accepted definition

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• Who was regarded as both the leader of a terrorist organisation and a Nobel Prize Winner?

  Yasser Arafat

• Do you think it is a good or a bad decision that the EU decided to put the military wing of Hezbollah on its List of designated (aanwijzen) terrorist organizations in july 2013?

  I think it is a good decision. Like the IRA (militant group and party). 

• 1.6 Essence of terrorism

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• Who said "Terrorists want a lot of people watching and not a lot of people dead?"

  Brian Jenkins