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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, terrorism means “The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” It…
Bruce Hoffman, an American expert on terrorism, having examined the examples of terrorist…
ineluctably political in aims and motives;…
violent – or, equally important, threatens violence;…
designed to have far-reaching psychological repercussions beyond the immediate victim or target;…
conducted either by an organization with an identifiable chain of command or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia) or by individuals or a small collection of individuals directly influenced, motivated, or inspired by the ideological aims or example of some existent terrorist movement and/or its leaders; and…
perpetrated by a subnational group or non-state entity”.(5)…
His interpretation of terrorism highlights the psychological impacts of violence,…
The United States Department of Defense in 2002, defined terrorism as “the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to inculcate fear; in
