Leadership and Terrorism in India

Running Head: LEADERSHIP 0
Leadership
Terrorism in India
(student name)
9-22-2018

LEADERSHIP 1
Executive Summary
In this essay, the discussion includes the major wicked problem of India that is
‘Terrorism in India’ this is the major concern for India since there had been many terrorist
attacks in many states of India. The problem of terrorism could be because of poor leadership in
our country, for this, the discussion on leadership issues in this regard will go on. Moreover, the
leadership approaches that are suitable for this problem is taken intro evaluation and are justified
for considered important for this wicked problem. Counter-terrorism could be improvised to
revolutionizing terrorism in India for which many techniques are recommended followed by
concluding the problem.
For this wicked problem, we had seen four major forms of terrorism that were Religious
terrorism, Narcoterrorism, Ethno-nationalist terrorism, and Left-wing terrorism found in India. The major
leadership issues considered important with regard to terrorism in India were terrorism is rare, terrorist
groups are not alike, we are still developing a strategy, making better policy, developing and
training, domestic capabilities and structure, coordination, lack of readiness, inspiring patriotism
among others and some more. These issues justify the concern for which leaders must work to
reduce the risk of terrorism in the country.
Leadership approach, which was found suitable in this problem, was functional or group
leadership approach and situational leadership approach. Major recommendation to revolutionize
terrorism in India was International assistance, Maintain a degree of consistency, Capacity-
Building, Intelligence sharing with other countries, Good grievances detection, Effective
physical security measures, Effective crisis management apparatus, and Periodic refresher
training.

LEADERSHIP 2
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Terrorism in India........................................................................................................................3
Discussion and justification of critical leadership issues applicable to the ‘Wicked’ problem.......4
Role of following leaderships in resolving the problem of terrorism in India................................6
1. Strategic leadership...............................................................................................................6
2. Distributed leadership...........................................................................................................6
3. Culture and leadership..........................................................................................................7
4. Worldly leadership................................................................................................................7
Leadership approach/framework.....................................................................................................7
Group or functional approach......................................................................................................7
Action centered leadership......................................................................................................8
Situational approach and contingency model..............................................................................9
Justification of how leadership approach/framework contributes to resolving the wicked problem
.........................................................................................................................................................9
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14

LEADERSHIP 3
Introduction
Terrorism in India
India is one of the developing countries, a major wicked problem noticed is ‘Terrorism’.
It is an issue for which government, political leaders, and other organization of India such as
Raw and CBI works constantly. Terrorism is a vital threat to residents of India, where Ethno-
nationalist, Narco-terrorism, left-wing terrorism, and religious terrorism are some of the most
founded forms of terrorism in India. Terrorism is threatened use or systematic use of violence to
frighten a government or population for political, or ideological or religious goals. Jammu and
Kashmir, south-central India, east-central India, and Seven sister states are regions with
maximum terrorist activities for the long term. According to the United States state department,
in India terror attack occurred in 2012 has caused 231 deaths compared to 1,098 deaths caused
by terrorism worldwide (Oberoi, 2017).
There are leaders who are responsible for the protection of the country from terrorism,
and that is why various leadership issue could be the reason for the increase in terrorism in India.
Considering this wicked problem, leadership issues and its application will be discussed in the
essay. Moreover, to resolve the terrorism issue in India, an appropriate leadership framework
will be framed. India splits terrorism into four main groups:
 Religious terrorism – this type of terrorism focus on religious constraints, in solidarity or
presumed duty for a particular religious group, in against of another religious group. One
of the Religious terrorism in India was the 26/11 terror attack at Mumbai in 2008, done
by Islamic religious group (Juergensmeyer, 2017).
 Narcoterrorism – this kind of terrorism is to create illegal narcotics traffic zones. Narco-
terrorism example includes drug violence occurred in Northwest India (Kukreja, 2016).
 Ethno-nationalist terrorism – the focus of this type of terrorism is either on making
separate state within a country or in a neighboring country or independent of India or
emphasizing response of an ethnic group against one or more group. For example, to
address the situation of Tamils in Sri Lanka had ‘violent Tamil nationalist group
(Bhattacharyya, 2018).’