Савремени тероризам
Contemporary Terrorism

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary science has made significant and numerous efforts to come up with a suitable definition of terrorism. Even though the threat has become a global one, the justice has not arrived on the scene yet. The lack of the unique definition within OUN leaves a lot of free space for powerful countries to determine their own standards for definitions of terrorism and such fact often leaves space for emergence of double standards. By comparing existing definitions of terrorism, this paper intends to shed a new light on international and domestic scientists’ work and their contribution in determining this important issue. The battle against terrorism is one of the most important questions of our era. Like in the case with other social phenomena, terrorism can be suppressed by eliminating its deeply penetrated causes. Humanity needs to rise above selfish political benefits and regard the subject of terrorism for the sake of all mankind for purpose of preserving lives and human dignity. There are many obstacles in defining terrorism, as for 200 years of its existence the definition has been changed many times. Human kind has fought for so long to establish its rules and laws and yet, in the 21st century it is facing the kind of aggressive way of fighting and struggle in the form of terrorism that hardly succumbs to any laws. Terrorism has taken many casualties and brought fear on the scene on global level. Conflicts and wars around the world approximately have been taking more than 2000 lives daily. Poverty, frustration, misery and despair have left many people helpless and ready to sacrifice their own life and lives of many innocent people in order to address the public and send the outcry to show their own pain through various violent terrorist acts. Even though there is no justification for those acts, these issues should be addressed with great care and attention. International law and finding the definition of terrorism could be a good start in finding the solution to this problem.

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