In the beginning of the semester, we began to read Martin 's book, Understanding Terrorism Edition 5, the first few chapters talked about the definition of terrorism and what the first impression of terrorism is. In the beginning stages we read about September 11th, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. It was widely explained the reasons of why terrorism occurs and what leads people to committing terrorist attacks. It was determined early on that everyone has a different definition of terrorism and there is no one set universal terrorism. Terrorism is defined many different ways which is why it is hard to determine what is a terroristic threat and what is not.
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I learned that there is something deeper to terrorist. What I mean by deeper is we the psychological explanations of terrorism, rationality, and terrorist violence. The psychological approaches attempts to explain terrorism and the effects of internal psychological diagnostics on individuals and group behaviors. There are different levels to psychological explanation one as individual levels and the other is group levels. The psychological explanation for individual committing terrorist acts, what some argue, is to engage in political violence frequently as an outcome of significant events and individuals lives that give rise antisocial feelings. They believe they are fighting for something or proving something to the opposed. The group level psychological explanations are the result of psychological motivation is the intensity of a group dynamic among terrorist. They also tend to demand more and to be intolerant of dissent and are pressured to escalate frequently and intensity operations are …show more content…
Women are less likely to be seen as a terroristic threat than men. It is least expected of women to get involved. And often time’s women are not suicide bombers, they mostly aid the men. There was the famous woman, whom name I cannot remember at the moment, who was infamous to hijacking planes and holding hostages. She was widely known for being a woman who bold enough to do the “man’s” job. Also, children are not limited to their abilities. Often, children are lead to believe if they are a suicide bomber they will be saving their families and will be sent to heaven. This is also falling back on the whole religion aspect of
Many different authors we have read showed the demographics and the numbers of terrorist …show more content…
I learned that there is something deeper to terrorist. What I mean by deeper is we the psychological explanations of terrorism, rationality, and terrorist violence. The psychological approaches attempts to explain terrorism and the effects of internal psychological diagnostics on individuals and group behaviors. There are different levels to psychological explanation one as individual levels and the other is group levels. The psychological explanation for individual committing terrorist acts, what some argue, is to engage in political violence frequently as an outcome of significant events and individuals lives that give rise antisocial feelings. They believe they are fighting for something or proving something to the opposed. The group level psychological explanations are the result of psychological motivation is the intensity of a group dynamic among terrorist. They also tend to demand more and to be intolerant of dissent and are pressured to escalate frequently and intensity operations are …show more content…
Women are less likely to be seen as a terroristic threat than men. It is least expected of women to get involved. And often time’s women are not suicide bombers, they mostly aid the men. There was the famous woman, whom name I cannot remember at the moment, who was infamous to hijacking planes and holding hostages. She was widely known for being a woman who bold enough to do the “man’s” job. Also, children are not limited to their abilities. Often, children are lead to believe if they are a suicide bomber they will be saving their families and will be sent to heaven. This is also falling back on the whole religion aspect of