This paper examines the concept of cyberterrorism. Fringe activity on the Internet ranges from nonviolent ‘Use’ at one end to ‘Cyberterrorism’ at the other. Rejecting the idea that cyberterrorism is widespread, the focus here is on terrorist groups’ ‘use’ of the Internet, in particular the content of their websites, and their ‘misuse’ of the medium, as in hacking wars, for example. Terrorist gr...

In armed internal conflict, violence against civilians is frequent. For insurgent groups, so-called terrorist acts are an important part of conflict with the state and yet there are numerous unanswered questions about the role and uses of terrorism during these conflicts. This paper examines the causes of terrorism in the context of a larger struggle between a state and insurgent groups. In par...

The threat of terrorist attacks motivates emotional reactions which elicit functional behavioral responses to characteristics of a threatening group. We argue that anger arises the more the group is seen as unjust, whereas fear arises the more it is seen as powerful. In Experiment 1, British participants read about terrorist groups with varied levels of injustice and power. As expected, the man...

The advantages of speed, security and connectivity, which Information Technology brings to businesses and government, are increasingly empowering international terrorist groups. Tools previously only available to national security agencies are increasingly at the disposal of terrorist cells and rogue nations. Powerful encryption methods are now widely available. Anonymizers, which remove the co...

with the intensification of violent terrorist operations in the world, many academic researchers have been performed in terms of the structural causes of terrorism. the active area of terrorism does not only include physical variables but other variables such as ideological, psychological, environmental and cultural-identity should also be tracked. the reasons are complex and varied regarding t...

Recent increases in terrorist activity around the world have made analyzing and understanding such activities more critical than ever. With the help of organizations such as the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), we now have detailed historical information on each terrorist event around the world since 1970. However, due to the size and complexity of ...

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We apply the reduced Google matrix method to analyse interactions between 95 terrorist groups and determine their relationships and influence on 64 world countries. This is done on the basis of the Google matrix of the English Wikipedia (2017) composed of 5 416 537 articles which accumulate a great part of global human knowledge. The reduced Google matrix takes into account the direct and hidde...

Terrorism and terrorist organizations are becoming more vulnerable nowadays. Understanding the terrorism and the organizational structures of terrorist networks are most important to devise successful defensive strategies against the terrorist activities. Terrorist organizational network is a real world complex system which is the association of numerous entities and has significant structural ...

BACKGROUND Very recent acts of terrorism in the UK were perpetrated by 'homegrown', well educated young people, rather than by foreign Islamist groups; consequently, a process of violent radicalization was proposed to explain how ordinary people were recruited and persuaded to sacrifice their lives. DISCUSSION Counterterrorism approaches grounded in the criminal justice system have not preven...