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Terrorism - the empire of violence

Author(s): Irena Musa
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Matica hrvatska Mostar
Keywords: Terrorism; war against terrorism; The United States of America; terrorists; Al Qaida; violence; power;

Summary/Abstract: The modern society has stepped into a new social relief where the old maps can’t be used anymore. Ever since the end of 20th century till now, social life is followed by numerous crises: crisis of identity, ecological crisis, economical crisis, migrant crisis; and we can add continuously spreading of violence where the crime and terrorism are taking the first place without a doubt. The theme of this paper is terrorism which has been a part of internal conflicts for a long time, and throughout the last decade of 20th century it has become global, and mainly out of control of national countries. Today we are talking about global spreading of terrorism, which just like viruses can show up anywhere. Terrorists of our age, terrorist suicidal, they are deprived of all restraint, and as those are representatives of absolute cruelty, which in itself unites crime, confession, and self-destruction. Every terrorist attack is attack which directly effects victims, and its goal is spreading fear in wide social community. A modern man lives in a culture of fear in which there is fight between them and us, keeping on mind that we can never precisely say who are we,and who are they. Terrorism rests on violence. Although, violence is old as a human race, it is not easy to explain it socially, because there is no tendency that it will decrease with development of civilisation, on the contrary, it’s becoming more destructive, more efficient and more massive, violence is able to appear in various forms, so its aspects remain difficult to approach in an objective scientific research.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 113-114
  • Page Range: 37-51
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Croatian