Key Takeaways. Terrorist acts can cause ripple effects through the economy that have negative impacts. The most obvious is the direct economic destruction of property and lives. Terrorism indirectly affects the economy by creating market uncertainty, xenophobia, loss of tourism, and increased insurance claims.

Noam Chomsky defines state terrorism as “terrorism practised by states (or governments) and their agents and allies”.

Terrorist acts can destabilize Governments, undermine civil society, jeopardize peace and security, threaten social and economic development, and may especially negatively affect certain groups. All of these have a direct impact on the enjoyment of fundamental human rights.

The War on Terror has involved major human rights and civil liberties violations, including detention without trial, torture, expanded US government surveillance, and racial profiling.

2 Terrorism and Unjust War The difference is that while terrorists intend to kill people who are innocent as a means of affecting others, legitimate acts of war kill innocent people only as a side effect – as “collateral damage,” in military jargon.

Terrorism is almost always morally unjustified, but it may be justified as the only way of preventing a “moral disaster” He argues that definitions of terrorism cannot be based on the identity of those resorting to it and must therefore be extended to include ‘state terrorism’.

In applying just war theory to terrorist activities, Fotion et al (2007, p. Terrorism, then, is morally distinctive from war in that it can justify the use of force against a greater number of individuals, some of whom cannot be justifiably targeted in war.

The difficulty in assigning a truly comprehensive definition to terrorism lies in the fact that, not only is it challenging to be specific when motives, targets and methods differ so broadly from case-to-case, but the complexity of untangling the overlaps within each of these categories makes the task virtually …

Terrorists destroy existing plants, machines, transportation systems and other economic resources. On smaller scales, acts of terrorism may blow up different public places, markets or religious places. The impact of terrorism is always negative for the economy, and physical destruction is a large reason why.

The term “terrorism” comes from French terrorisme, from Latin: terror, “great fear”, “dread”, related to the Latin verb terrere, “to frighten”. The terror cimbricus was a panic and state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in 105 BCE.

The attacks were carried out by 10 gunmen who were believed to be connected to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization. The Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station in Mumbai after a terrorist attack in November 2008.

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Economic Factors When people are deprived of certain resources and opportunities, poverty can create resentment and cause some to turn to terrorism in order to express their outrage (Newman 2006).

The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place on November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. Pakistan condemned the attacks.

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Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and all its formations and front organisations have been banned by the Government of India. Following the ban, the Maoists are liable for arrest under the UAPA.

In 1964 a major split occurred in the Communist Party of India. The split was the culmination of decades of tensions and factional infighting. As relations between the Nehru government and the Soviet Union improved, a faction that sought cooperation with the dominant Indian National Congress emerged within CPI.