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09/13/2004:

"Terrorism : A definitional analysis"

ONE of the problems in the control of local and international terrorism in the past decades is ambiguity on what constitutes terrorism. Clearly, an unambiguous definition of what constitutes terrorism is fundamental for the efficacy of the war against terrorism in the 21st Century. Clearly, without a standardised definition, academic and criminal investigations can be misleading and invariably confusing because they are referring to very different crime. This write-up examines some definitions of terrorism in order to eradicate the possibility of misunderstanding the phenomenon.

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