Abstract
Preventing terrorist attacks is crucial to the development and safety of a country. Therefore, studying the law and the occurrence of terrorist attacks enable the countries to develop steadily. Specially, we have noticed that over time, terrorism has gradually shown the characteristics that are manifested as vast and hidden geographical distribution and can be modeled as networks. Based on such characteristics, the traditional method of analyzing individual terrorist organizations no longer serves the needs of anti-terrorism security research under the new situation. Since the terrorist organizations can be modeled as networks, terrorists use their associated networks, which is aimed to achieve the greater and more rapid criminal activity. In view of the above characteristics of the terrorist organization in the new era, in this paper, we introduce the social network theory to analyze the regular patterns of the terrorist attacks. First, we analyze the terrorist attacks in the data set. If two or more terrorist organizations participate in the certain terrorist attack at the same time, they will establish a side-by-side relationship and increase the weight of one side. In this way, the terrorist organization network is constructed and the statistical analysis can be carried out. Then, we divide the organization of the terrorist organization network by means of community division method and the terrorist organization is classified in detail. Here, the classification of terrorist organizations into 13 categories laid the foundation for subsequent analysis. The experimental results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed analysis.
Highlights
Terrorist attacks are made by extremists or organizations and they are not limited to civilians and civilian facilities, and they are not in line with international morality
This paper is aimed to find the regular of the terrorist organizations according to the analysis the date of terrorist attacks, we find that complex network is a very useful tool to find the regular of the terrorist organizations
By analyzing the countries that have suffered terrorist attacks in the past three years, we find that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Somalia are more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, so these countries will have a high probability of terrorist attacks in the future
Summary
Terrorist attacks are made by extremists or organizations and they are not limited to civilians and civilian facilities, and they are not in line with international morality. Through the aforementioned analysis of terrorist attacks and organizations, we have noticed that over time, terrorism has gradually emerged from the characteristics of the past, characterized by geographical distribution, concealment, networking and other characteristics [9]–[15]. The top three terrorist groups in the united Front are ISIL (Islamic state), TTP (Pakistani taliban movement), Al-nusrah Front (Front of the shams).These organizations have higher weighted and joint degrees, and its geopolitical, religious origin, the area of economic development is inseparable. These organizations have similar religious background, or similar interests.
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