Number Of Terrorist Groups Research Articles

Teroristička propaganda na internetu

The exchange of large amount of data contributed to making information technologies an integral part of the modern world, often shaping public opinion, whether through its using, or abusing. In such a sense, modern terrorism uses or abuses various possibilities of information technologies, especially Internet, for the promotion of its own activities, as well as for the recruitment. Internet usage made the eradiation of terrorism propaganda such an easy task, so Internet practically became overwhelmed by it. Attitudes and threats expressed by terrorists that put their opponents under serious pressure, as well as recruitment of new members has contributed to to an increase in the number of terrorist groups that abuse the Internet for media purposes. Additional problems stem from the impossibility of their effective and timely control in a bid to prevent abuse aimed at terrorist propaganda, but also from the fact that most propaganda activities can neither be prevented nor limited in time, since such preventions and limitations infringe human rights, such as freedom of expression, religion and others. Since propaganda itself is not prohibited, the use of propaganda for promotion, financing, recruitment, training and commission of terrorism purposes is characterized as a criminal offense. In accordance with the European legislation, in order to provide evidence of incitement to terrorism, the connection between intent and direct causality has to be specified between the alleged propaganda, actual conspiracy or commission of terrorist acts. In this regard, the aim of this paper is to point out to danger of terrorist propaganda on the Internet, as well as to its types of manifestations (symbols) in an attempt to identify it in a timely manner and to curtail it in an adequate way.

Communication (un)savviness and the failure of terrorism: a case of Pakistani terrorist organizations

ABSTRACTThe central hypothesis of this article is that there are a large number of terrorist groups which prolifically employ strategic communication (stratcom), while paradoxically, there are others who markedly underutilize it, and therefore, fail to mobilize support for the professed cause. The decisive determinant for either of the two ends, it is argued, obtains in the intellectual endowment or its banality among the conspiratorial groupings. A case of stratcom by two leading Pakistani Taliban groups – Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and TTP – Jammat ul Ahrar – is systematically investigated. The analysis clearly engenders that these terrorist organizations are communication un-savvy, because, they are not only religiously and secularly less informed and increasingly rhetorical but are intellectually far less creative to articulate a people inspired rhetorical vision. The brutalization of the civilians further trivializes their discourses. They have thus largely failed to evoke meaningful social mobilization. Besides further elaborating on the findings, the conclusion reflects on a few limitations of the research, offers input for broadening the research scope of some of the key dimensions of terrorism literature and ends with the discussion on some policy implications.

Radikalisme di Internet

This article to discuss the radical groups that exploit it through social media, this matter take a very large role in providing information to the public, especially young people will be radical ideology. Given the fact that the recruitment of youth into radical organizations mostly done by using the internet. Social media plays an important role in providing information to the public on the issues so that the public terpropaganda radicalism towards radical issues in spread through the media. This fact is evidenced by a number of terrorist groups that use social media to media propaganda and build a special site as a medium to coordinate all activities related to the execution of terrorist acts.

Social capital and terrorism

Many studies of terrorism explain the use of violence against civilians with political or economic forces, often relegating social variables to the margins. Social factors, specifically societal-level social capital, play a far more important role in explaining patterns of terrorist activity than previously recognized. Social capital can exert pressures that act as both restraint and catalyst for terrorism, making explicit exposition of these differential effects critical. Analysis shows that higher stocks of social capital positively correlate with the number of terrorist groups, but the average attack activity of those groups increase as measures of social capital decline. The complex relationship makes it difficult to draw simple policy implications, but it does offer insight into the role that social dynamics play in terrorist activity.

Terrorism and its oxygen: a game-theoretic perspective on terrorism and the media

The symbiotic relationship between terrorism and the media is widely taken as self-evident; theoretical analysis from an economic perspective is rare. In this paper, a game-theoretic model with two players – the media and a terrorist organization – is developed and then extended to multiple terrorist groups. The number of terrorist groups is first modeled exogenously and then, in a market entry game, endogenously. It can be shown that media attention not only encourages terrorism, but also has a stabilizing effect. With increasing terrorism and constant media preferences, the probability that a single terrorist incident is reported on diminishes, reducing the expected payoff from a successful terrorist attack. Hence, terrorist attacks of a single group are declining in the overall number of terrorist groups. Predictions are made about which circumstances encourage market entry of terrorist groups. It is found that religiousness, popular support and, inversely, the national income of the base country, will, ceteris paribus, lead to an increase in potential terrorist groups engaging in terrorism.

Democratic Competition and Terrorist Activity

Why is terrorist activity more prevalent in democracies than in nondemocracies? I argue that the main motivation for terrorist attacks in democracies is intergroup dynamics, with terrorist groups of various ideologies competing with one another for limited political influence. I conduct a cross-national, longitudinal analysis of 119 countries for the period 1975–97, using political competition as the key independent variable and the number of transnational terrorist incidents originating in the country as the dependent variable. I find preliminary support for the hypothesis that intergroup competition, motivated by the competition of the political regime, explains an increase in terrorist incidents originating in a state. Evidence also reveals a positive relationship between political competition and the number of terrorist groups that emerge within a state and a positive relationship between the density of domestic interest group participation and terrorist activity. Officials should consider intergroup ...

The `Fall of the Towers' and International Order

The attacks on America of 11 September 2001 present a grave policing problem for the international community but do not constitute a serious challenge to the norms of international society. Rather than a `war on terrorism', the international community is engaged in a hunt for a specific terrorist group, whose ideology - radical Islam - is not sufficiently broad in its appeal to constitute a genuine threat to the current international order. The particularist ideology of al-Qaeda is contrasted with that of an earlier challenge to international society in the 1960s at the time of the Vietnam War, the `Tricontinental Congress' and when a number of terrorist groups were operating within western society - the limited appeal of radical Islam to non-Muslims is in contrast with the universalist ideology espoused by these earlier groups, but, because of the religious basis of their ideology, it will be difficult to incorporate the leaders of al-Qaeda within conventional politics as has happened, in many cases, with the leaders of the earlier revolt against the West.