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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Refaat, Mahmoud (1978-....)
Titre(s) : Islamic terrorism, myth and reality [Texte imprimé] / by Mahmoud Refaat
Publication : [Paris] : the European institute for international law and international relations,
2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (208 p.)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9798472678001 (br.) : 26 EUR
EAN 9798472678001
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46894021g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46894021
Résumé : Terrorism is an extremely complex set of phenomena, covering a great diversity of
groups with different origins and causes. The statements researchers have identified
more than 200 definitions of terrorism but failed to agree on anyone and one person's
terrorist is another person's freedom fighters have become cliches. However, there
is a growing consensus among researchers as well as among governments about the core
meaning of the concept of terrorism. Most agree that terrorism is a set of methods
or strategies of combat rather than an identifiable ideology or movement, and that
terrorism involves premeditated use of violence against (at least primarily) non-combatants
in order to achieve a psychological effect of fear on others than the immediate targets.
However, beyond this core meaning of terrorism, there is heated disagreement regarding
the delimitation of the phenomenon of terrorism, and particularly when it comes down
to which specific groups or violent campaigns should be included or excluded under
the label ‘terrorism'. Some definitions specifically exclude state actors as possible
terrorists, whereas others include states. Some definitions restrict the notion of
terrorism to attacks on civilians only, whereas other definitions would include military
and police targets under non-war conditions. Some limit terrorisms to violent acts
with a political purpose, whereas others also include terrorism for criminal purposes.
Most definitions (implicitly or explicitly) consider terrorism as an illegitimate
method, irrespective of its political goals or purposes. However, a few (rather exceptional)
definitions specifically claim that armed struggle for certain just purposes is legitimate,
irrespective of means. The emerging consensus, however, is that terrorism is primarily
an extremism of means, not one of ends. Twentieth-century terrorism has come of age.
In Britain, children of this age of terrorism are old enough to exercise their franchise.
It was in the mid-1 [source éditeur]
