Per request I've created a new International Terrorism Forum.
This forum is intended for Discussions On Terrorism, the Past And Present, Terrorism As A Tactic, the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and other related subjects.
Political discussions should not go in here,
and I would kindly ask everyone to read through the forum rules one more time before posting in here:
Forum Rules and Information
More info will follow, and I'm also open for questions, suggestions and comments in this new forum.
Terrorism related References:
MIPT Knowledgebase: Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations.
This forum is intended for Discussions On Terrorism, the Past And Present, Terrorism As A Tactic, the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and other related subjects.
Political discussions should not go in here,
and I would kindly ask everyone to read through the forum rules one more time before posting in here:
Forum Rules and Information
More info will follow, and I'm also open for questions, suggestions and comments in this new forum.
Terrorism related References:
MIPT Knowledgebase: Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/terrorism_definitions.htmlProposed Definitions of Terrorism
1. League of Nations Convention (1937):
"All criminal acts directed against a State and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons or a group of persons or the general public".
2. UN Resolution language (1999):
"1. Strongly condemns all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, wherever and by whomsoever committed;
2. Reiterates that criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that may be invoked to justify them". (GA Res. 51/210 Measures to eliminate international terrorism)
3. Short legal definition proposed by A. P. Schmid to United Nations Crime Branch (1992):
Act of Terrorism = Peacetime Equivalent of War Crime
4. Academic Consensus Definition:
"Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators. Threat- and violence-based communication processes between terrorist (organization), (imperilled) victims, and main targets are used to manipulate the main target (audience(s)), turning it into a target of terror, a target of demands, or a target of attention, depending on whether intimidation, coercion, or propaganda is primarily sought" (Schmid, 1988 )