Publication
2007
An essential starting point in any strategy aimed at addressing terrorist threat is the insight that such threat is fundamentally different in nature than other kinds of threat. Terrorist threat is unique in that its essential aim is not to do harm, but rather to create fear. Damage to life or property is, in the logic of terror, a means to an end and never the end itself.
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Author | J Peter Burgess, Sonja Kittelsen |
Series | PRIO Policy Briefs |
Issue | 3 |
Publisher | Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) |
Copyright | © 2007 International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) |