Terrorism Questions

 1. Terrorism is an act of violence aimed at inflicting fear among people to take power or control of often the government. Mass killings aren’t always labelled as terrorism. The key to terrorism has more to do with the motivation behind the attack. A mass murder is often to get back and the world meanwhile terrorism has a specific motivation to make change via infliction of fear among the people. Factors such as race/ethnic background can get bought up in terrorism labelling, having the media swoop these groups of people into it at a much larger race. Outside attackers sell better stories than local terrorists.

2. Most of terrorists in the U.S. and Canada are lone wolf terrorists. These are individuals that go out to set up a plan inflicting major terror. This could be in the form of a bombing, vehicle misuse, gun violence, or anything in these types of areas. 80% of worldwide terrorism does happen from groups in parts of Africa and Asia but it’s often within close range of the countries, not these “evil races” coming to get the poor U.S. Countries can commit acts of terrorism. An example of this is how Russia stole many children from Ukraine, leaving the parents to never see them again.

3. The motive absolutely matters, in fact the whole reasoning behind whether it’s terrorism or a mass murder is the motivation for the act. The main reason for committing terrorism is to create terror within the people. The goal is to often make this act have a domino effect to hit the government, creating change within society. Even if it’s for religious beliefs you’re still motivated to inflict terror in some way. Slapping a label on the act of it being a result of your god doesn’t just cancel out your actions.

4. it is absolutely fine to get the word out of an issue if it’s important change that needs to be made but murdering or attempting to murder a mass amount of people in an instant isn’t okay and I think most people would generally agree. It definitely still counts as terrorism. If you inflict fear within legal bounds it has the same motivation as terrorism and there is a point to be made but it doesn’t mean it’s terrorism, it goes against the definition. In order for it to be terrorism violence needs to occur. That’s the distinction between terrorists and freedom fighters.

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 (3) Poor governance, violations of human rights and the rule of law;

I believe it’s number 3 as the whole point of terrorism is to make a change within the government and people and this drive absolutely effects both. If your government has major flaws supporting minor groups they aren’t just going to stick around forever. There is absolutely going to be a result of these actions. No group of humans is entirely dumb and they realize something needs to happen or they’re going to keep being punished as a result of the way they were born(whether that’s due to the ethnicity or location born or some other factor). 

6. In canada there are some various ways of handling issues with terrorism. One of these is CCCEPV(The Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence) The goal of this organization is to with research and supporting community. They attempt to prevent radicalization and violence, working with stakeholders to prevent these issues. The Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act aims to help victims of terrorism by allowing them to sue perpetrators and those supporting them, including foreign states. The PPP(passenger protection program) Prevents those who could be a threat to national security from boarding a plane. The Kanishka Project helps research on how to prevent terrorism. 

All of these projects/organizations are great as they help support those who have faced trauma and are affected by terrorism. It’s nice to know there are initiatives in place to act when these problems happen.