MODELS OF TERRORISM
Terrorism covers a broad sense of international violence based on political and religious reasons during times of peace in war against civilians and the neutral population. Terrorism exists in such models as lone-wolf, small and large groups (Brian PP. 244-259). In the lone wolf model of terrorism, individuals act independently and solely perform terror attacks on their target places without any other party. The model is obtained from the aspect of the lone wolf that lives alone and does everything on itself in the park (Brian PP. 244-259). However, they are few because, as they say, that no human is an island, and thus, doing everything by yourself and managing loneliness is not a walk in the park. For this reason, there are a few instances of lone terror attacks.
In a small group model of terrorism, there is a terrorism network that involves a relatively small number of individuals who pursue a particular goal together (Chuang et al.). Ideally, the group pursues ideological and political objectives through acts of violating the rights of other individuals violently through assassinations, kidnapping, or hijacking practices. In doing this, the pure aim is to instill shock, fear, and threats in the general public and create tension to the state from which the attack or misconduct occurred. In essence, they include many companies concerned with shifts in terrorism risk and exposures that are not safe for both the group and the general public.
On a different note, large groups of terrorism models incorporate those that perform massive attacks that are purely concerned with hitting hard a specific nation due to social conflicts or political differences, especially between state heads. Ideally, some of them, like the Al-Qaida of the Middle East and the Al-Shabaab of Somalia in Africa, comprise more than 30,000 fighters per group (Chuang et al.). It is easier to convene massive killings in a blink of an eye through these groups using bombs other explosives.
Work Cited
Chuang, Yao-li, and Maria R. D’Orsogna. “Mathematical models of radicalization and terrorism.” arXiv preprint arXiv: 1903.08485 (2019).
Johnson, Brian D. “Applying multilevel models to terrorism research.” The handbook of the criminology of terrorism (2017): 244-259.