FRAMEWORKS FOR CONCEPTUALISING TERRORISM

Alex Schmid

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2004, vol. 16, issue 2, 197-221

Abstract: Terrorism has been situated—and thereby implicitly also defined—in various contexts such as crime, politics, war, propaganda and religion. Depending on which framework one chooses, certain aspects of terrorism get exposed while others are placed ‘outside the picture’ if only one framework is utilised. In this article five conceptual lenses are utilised: 1. terrorism as/and crime; 2. terrorism as/and politics; 3. terrorism as/and warfare; 4. terrorism as/and communication; and 5. terrorism as/and religious fundamentalism.

Date: 2004
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