Terrorism Situation and Identification of Soft Target’s Attractiveness

Abstract

This article is focused on the terrorism situation and a method of identification of Soft target’s attractiveness. From the year of 2014, violent attacks increase in Europe – terrorist attacks, but also other violent attacks (active shooters, etc.). In our research, we try to find out the reason why the terrorist chose these objects or events like their targets of attacks. We discover that attractiveness is very important for this choice. In this article, we present the process of the determination of the attractiveness in case of our object or event. This process consists of two parts, and the result is great or low attractiveness. In the first part of the article, we generally describe information about Soft targets and statistics. The most important part is the method of the identification of the Soft target’s attractiveness. In the end, we present our future research. The goal is to have the method of identification of Soft target’s attractiveness for inexperienced people. It is the first step in the process of protection of Soft targets. The problem is, that nobody can absolutely say what is the Soft targets. How many people must be in the object, which particular object is the future target of violence attack etc. In our research, we try to find the method which determine, which object (or event) are more attractiveness. We discussed our results with security experts and with Ministry of interior and they agree with our results.