Understanding Terrorism: Definition, Types, and Approaches

This report provides an overview of terrorism, including its definition, major types (vigilante, insurgent, transnational, and state), and approaches to deal with it (law enforcement and structural reform). The report evaluates the effectiveness of these approaches and discusses the impact of terrorism on society. References are included for further reading.

REPORT

Contents
Description.......................................................................................................................................1
1. Explain why terrorism is difficult to define.............................................................................1
2. List the major types of terrorism..............................................................................................1
3. Evaluate the law enforcement and structural-reform approaches to deal with terrorism........2
References........................................................................................................................................2

Description
1. Explain why terrorism is difficult to define.
The terrorism is mainly due to the use of violence and the goal of making people afraid. Here,
the desires are set for the political, social and the economic or cultural changes. It is use of
unexpected violence for intimidating or coercing the people for pursuing the political and social
objectives. The terrorism is mainly due to the psychological problems where the research is
about the difference on the different types of individuals who tend to use violence for their
political ends.
2. List the major types of terrorism.
a. Vigilante Terrorism: The violence which is committed by the private citizens mainly against
the other private citizens. The motivation comes from the racial, ethical, religious and the hatred
motivation which is mainly to resist the social changes 1.
b. Insurgent Terror: This is by private citizens against the own government or business and
institutions which are seen to be establishing. This is committed by the private citizens against
the government and business or the other institutions that tend to represent the establishment.
They are including the US history which is filled with insurgent terror with actions waged
against the British forces before and at the time of American Revolution.
1 Bart Schuurman. "Research on Terrorism, 2007–2016: A Review of Data, Methods, and
Authorship." Terrorism and Political Violence (2018): 1-16.

c. Transnational Terror: It is where the violence is committed by citizens of one nations against
the targeting of other nation 2. Here, the commitment is about how the Americans death lead to
the problems in the different areas like Madrid, London etc., at the time of 9/11 attack.
d. State Terror: The violence is committed by the government mainly against its own people. It
involves the mass murder, assassinations and the torture. The forms and the state of terrorism has
been killed and injured where the people focus on how the state terrorism occurs on small scale.
The violence response for the Southern white law includes how the officers for the civil rights
protected for the mounting to state terrorism.
3. Evaluate the law enforcement and structural-reform approaches to
deal with terrorism.
The law enforcement and the military efforts have been considered to weaken the terrorist forces
where the terrorist groups have been persistent. There are measures based on inspiring the
terrorists to commit and increase the public support for the cause. The critics also worry about
the military approach which leads to endangering the civil liberties with US response to terrorism
at the time of 9/113. There are many experts focusing on the structural reform approach where
they say about the reducing of terrorism with improving and then eliminating the conditions. It
gives rise to the discontent that leads the individuals to commit the terror. The assessment is
based on how the heads of 9/11 Commission illustrates about the use of tools and power
2 Bader, Benjamin, and Wasbauer Reade Carol. "International HRM in the Context of Terrorism: Towards
an HR Terrorism-Response Theory." Academy of Management Proceedings. Vol. 2018. No. 1. Briarcliff
Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2018.
3 Silke, Andrew, and Schmidt-Petersen Jennifer. "The golden age? What the 100 most cited articles in
terrorism studies tell us." Terrorism and political violence 29.4 (2017): 692-712.

including the foreign aids and educational assistance or the vigorous public diplomacy.4
American long-term security also relies on being viewed as a source of opportunity and hope
rather than as terrorism.
References
Bader, Benjamin, and Carol Wasbauer Reade. "International HRM in the Context of Terrorism:
Towards an HR Terrorism-Response Theory." Academy of Management Proceedings. Vol. 2018.
No. 1. Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2018.
Nasim, Afnan, and Zaira Hijab. "From? Ring-a-Ring O? Roses??. To? Coffins Full of Roses?:
Impact of Exposure to Terrorism on Students? Outcome." Proceedings of Business and Management
Conferences. No. 4307003. International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, 2016.
Schuurman, Bart. "Research on Terrorism, 2007–2016: A Review of Data, Methods, and
Authorship." Terrorism and Political Violence (2018): 1-16.
Silke, Andrew, and Jennifer Schmidt-Petersen. "The golden age? What the 100 most cited
articles in terrorism studies tell us." Terrorism and political violence 29.4 (2017): 692-712.
4 Nasim, Afnan, and Zaira Hijab. "From? Ring-a-Ring O? Roses??. To? Coffins Full of Roses?: Impact of
Exposure to Terrorism on Students