Class Definition
The unlawful use or threatened use of
force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or
property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or
governments, often for ideological, social, religious, or political
reasons, not primarily for monetary gain.
FBI definition
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or
violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a
government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in
furtherance of political or social objectives.
Others
 | Act of Terrorism = Peacetime
Equivalent of War Crime --proposed to UN Crime Branch |
| Terrorism is the use or threatened
use of force designed to bring about political change. --Brian
Jenkins |
| Terrorism consitutes the
illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when
innocent people are targeted. --Walter Laqueur |
| Terrorism is the premeditated,
deliberate, systematic murder, mayhem, and threatening of the
innocent to create fear and intimidation in order to gain a
political or tactical advantage, usually to influence an audience.
--James M. Poland |
| Terrorism is the unlawful use or
threat of violence against persons or property to further
political or social objectives. It is usually intended to
intimidate or coerce a government, individuals or groups, or to
modify their behavior or politics. --Vice-President's Task
Force, 1986 |
| Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring
method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine
individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or
political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the
direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate
human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets
of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic
targets) from a target population, and serve as message
generators. Threat- and violence-based communication processes
between terrorist (organization), (imperilled) victims, and main
targets are used to manipulate the main target (audience(s)),
turning it into a target of terror, a target of demands, or a
target of attention, depending on whether intimidation, coercion,
or propaganda is primarily sought." --Academic
Consensus Definition |
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