Counter-terrorism

The dawning of international terrorism has forced a complete re-thinking of how citizens and governments handle emergency management, perceive military ventures, and interact with law enforcement agencies. However, there have been stumbling blocks to how best to implement wide-scale institutional changes across all agencies and communities to counter terrorism. While most agree with the definition of terrorism – acts that seek to intimidate, coerce, or ransom populations to create fear, gain…

such is due to the fact that a sense of unfairness has been a part of their lives. Fairness is the rock that our court system has established in the United States. In today’s world, suspected terrorism has become a more increasingly important topic that needs to be discussed. The issue of alleged terrorism has now been entangled with the court system. Should a suspected terrorist be detained without a trial? To ensure a suspected terrorist is treated fairly, they should not be detained without…

rule of law which is central to the protection of human rights suffered after the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 attacks gave the United States a pretext to declare an open-ended war on terrorism which vaguely identified terrorists but imposed heavy burdens on Arabs and Muslims whose assets were frozen in connection with terrorism, who were subjected to irregular rendition, discriminated against based on their nationality, arrested, interrogated, placed…

our globalized world, the issue of terrorism is the most significant issue to contemporary world deals with today concerning international politics. Terrorism is a complex issue in the world and in political science because it is hard to define. Generally, terrorism is the use of violence that target civilians in the pursuit of political aims to generate fear. In the last year, countless headlines around the world dealt with the growing occurrences of terrorism in our world.Terrorism is not a…

My original thoughts about terrorism were heavily influenced by recent terrorist attacks on the United States. The motivation behind events such as 9/11 and the Boston Bombing are difficult for fellow Americans to understand. It seems delusional to validate the killings of so many innocent people through religion or politics. The video, A Legacy of Violence,(Setton Mudd & Carroll, 2000) by no means justifies terrorist acts, but explains them as a military and political tactic. By focusing on…

controversial debate that has not yet captured the full attention of the public in the west. The main arguments for using drone warfare has been about saving lives and cost, but such argument pales in comparison to the arguments against it. To examine the counter arguments of why drone warfare is ethically wrong, we must look at the political stance of the governments using drone warfare, the society’s responsibility, the ethics of the way that the drone strikes are conducted, the effectiveness…

Australia’s criminal justice system is equipped to handle terrorism, but there is doubt on the effectiveness of the actions taken. Though the nation is relatively peaceful and mostly inactive in regards to politically motivated violence, there is enough demand for responses towards past events that there has been implementation of legislation to protect the public. Whether or not the measures taken by the system is successful in its objective to achieve justice and prevent further such…

that this incident due to his Muslim roots and because of September 11 (O’Maily 2015). While terrorism has always existed, following 9/11 there was a dramatic uprising in coverage relating to terrorism, counter terrorism measures and discrimination against Muslims (Poole and Richardson eds. 2006 p, 95). Pre-existing stereotypes made later vilification easier and faster to associate Muslims and terrorism (Bilci 2011). After the incident of 9/11, there was a 1600% increase in hate crimes against…

This form of terrorism involves violent acts committed by self-radicalized individuals to bring about political, religious, environmental, or social change. One lone wolf type that is growing in the United States is the homegrown jihadist. A jihadist is described as a…

responsibilities. However, in the urgency to respond to such expectations, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally terrorism and radicalization take the lime light. A very little empirical study has been critically evaluated to understand the reflection of such community engagement in the modern world (Crawford, 1997). In communities like UK and USA, social problems like crime, terrorism, and radicalization have always been categorized as a voluntary attempt (Prior et al., 2006). Researchers…