Suicide terrorism has become an increasingly popular tactic used predominantly by religiously motivated sub-state groups. This suggests that such organizations are particularly successful in using suicide terrorism while maintaining (and perhaps increasing) their popular support. This success could be a product of devotion to specific religious creeds (Hypothesis 1) or of devotion to the collec...

Terrorism instills fear in the minds of people and takes away the freedom of individuals to act as they will. Terrorism has turned out to be an international menace in the global community; every nation is getting affected, directly or indirectly. Here, we study the terrorist attack incidents which occurred in the last half century across the globe from the open source, Global terrorism databas...

terrorism is a violent action with special features; terrorists are different than other criminals too and it is not possible to judge them as crazy criminals or a person with deviant character or someone who is affected by the inappropriate financial circumstances. terrorists are individuals with planed acts faced to the specific aims which are prompted by the ideological motives. in this thes...

Terrorism represents an unexpected and unwanted change which challenges one’s social identity. We carried out a study to explore the demographic variables’ role on the perception of personal and national threat, and to investigate the effects of perceived terrorist threat on people’s ways of life, moods, opinions and hopes. 313 residents of Palermo (Italy) were interviewed. The results pointed ...

This study empirically investigates the association between country-level socioeconomic characteristics and risk of being victimized in transnational terrorism events. We find that a country's annual financial contribution to the U.N. general operating budget has a positive association with the frequency of being victimized in transnational terrorism events. In addition, per capita GDP, politic...

Terrorism is an increasing feature of the World Scene. In the UK, our perspective has changed from a largely Ireland focused one to a more international view. The United States of America are, for the first time, seen as major terrorist targets. We are now "at war with terrorism". The medical aspects of terrorism have been extensively discussed in this journal and elsewhere, this article specif...

Saru Chandrakar, "Combating Terrorism using Remote Sensing" in NCETET, Aurangabad, 2008 Saru Chandrakar, "Detection of Explosives using Remote Sensing", Saru Chandrakar, "Combating Catastrophic Terrorism using Remote Sensing", Saru Chandrakar, "A Hybrid approach with Infrared Radiation" Saru Chandrakar "Combating Man-Made Disaster using Remote Sensing", ICETET 2009(In Press) Remote Sensing and ...

1 Application of a New Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Paradigm on the Design of a Crisis Management Distributed System Konstantinos Domdouzis, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Simon Andrews, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTR...

In a recent case, the FBI investigated what had become of a group of young SomaliAmerican men who lived in the Minneapolis area and disappeared. Relatives said they had abruptly left the country to join a suspected terrorist organization in Somalia. If that is true, the men might train with terrorists and then join local operations in Somalia or return to the United States on their American pas...