UK Terrorism Threat: Definition, Key Features, Responses, and Evaluation

UK Terrorism
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Definition....................................................................................................................................3
Key features ................................................................................................................................4
Responses ...................................................................................................................................7
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Terrorism refers to the calculated use of unlawful threats and violence in order to
inculcate fear in common people. It has been described as use of fear and violence to accomplish
the aim of ideology. It includes the threat and use of violence as well as seek to generate fear not
within particular victims but between a community or country. The goal of establishing terrorism
can be in pursuit of terms related to religious, political or ideological conflicts (Awan, Spiller &
Whiting, 2018). This assignment covers the several definition of terrorism and the ways in which
their meaning vary. It further covers the history of terrorism in UK along with the causes,
locations, offenders, victims and tactics of the particular situation. Further this report revolves
around the policies, practices and laws that are used by the government of UK in order to combat
this threat. It also covers the evaluation of the particular threat and the general challenges and
weaknesses faced by country while combating this particular threat.
MAIN BODY
Definition
Terrorism is a very common concept and there are several countries in the world that are
facing major form of challenges while dealing with this threat. However, there are several set of
definitions that are given by different organisations and authors of different country. Every
definition explains the concept of Terrorism in a different way, few such definitions are written
below:
“Actions done or several threats made in respect to the fulfil the intention of advancing
religious, political or any other such cause which directly raise conflicts in the common people
living in the country.”
“Different types of threatening acts committed by a person or a group of persons for religious,
ethnic and political purposes which eventually creates fear in the particular set of population or
whole population (Various Definitions of Terrorism, 2022).”
“Any type of act that is committed with the objective of destabilizing the set political order of
country and further generating a sense of fear and chaos in the people of the country.”
The above set of definitions perfectly define the word ‘terrorism’, however the second
definition gives a clear picture of what terrorism actually is. Therefore, this report will revolve
around the concepts discussed in second definition (Breen-Smyth, 2020). This quotes that the
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