A short commentary by Professor George Kassimeris, a SME on terrorism, and the sub-title is:The author's bio:http://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-sc...ge-kassimeris/Students and politicians may struggle to accept this – especially in the wake of the attacks in Paris – but the best we can do is contain a phenomenon that is as old as the hills,
He compares the 'old' and 'new' terrorism, an excerpt:He ends with:In that period terrorists wanted – to use the often-cited observation by Brian Jenkins, director of the security and subnational conflict programme of the RAND Corporation – “a lot of people watching and a lot of people listening and not a lot of people dead”. Now things are different. What we have now is a series of loose, mutually reinforcing and quite separate international networks whose followers combine medieval religious beliefs with modern weaponry and a level of fanaticism that expresses itself primarily in suicide bombings and a willingness to use indiscriminate violence on large scale.The article itself:http://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-a...l-violence.phpWhether one supports politically motivated violence or not as a tactic, it is important to place the phenomenon in a clear context in order to attempt to understand the nature of the threat. Not to eradicate it, because that is impossible, but to contain it.
Others have advocated containment as the option, alongside with work ast home.
The Forum has ninety threads with terrorism in the title, none appeared on a review to suit this commentary.
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