The Answers: Terrorism. What is the answer to global terrorism?

Terrorism has a poor record as a tool for winning political power.

Terrorism has been a major obstacle to progress towards a two-state solution to the Israel–Palestinian conflict.

The fact that the campaign of ruthless urban terrorism seemed to have “worked” in Algeria (a campaign mythologised in the film The Battle of Algiers) led some young would-be revolutionaries to believe terrorism was a magic weapon.

intelligence services and police forces is that they cannot afford to confine their attention to counter-terrorism measures to any single potential threat.

The key implication for intelli

The Army of God is an extreme anti-abortion group in the US which has used and threatened violence against clinics and medical professionals involved in

ALF militants have used violence and threats of violence against certain individuals (scientists and businessmen, for example), whom they accuse of being “animal abusers”.

the Achilles heel of these groups is that their leading personalities want to be the Fuehrer of their movements, leading to endless internal squabbles and splits.

hard to prevent terrorism is that this form of violence is often the key contributory cause of wider terror wars, and once these bigger conflicts are under way, the repeated mass killings through terror attacks on civilians make it far harder to obtain ceasefires and to establish conditions where post-war reconstruction and reconciliation are possible.

One of the most powerful reasons why the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations continue to work