Modern day terrorism- A study on citizen knowledge and perception

AuthorStella Filipovi? ?ango
PositionFaculty of Criminology, Criminalistics and Security Studies in Sarajevo
Pages7-21
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Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria
ISSN 2410-759X
Acces online at www.iipccl.org
Vol. 6 No.1
May, 2020
Modern day terrorism– A study on citizen knowledge and perception
PhD (C.) Stella Filipović Šango
Faculty of Criminology, Criminalistics and Security Studies in Sarajevo
Abstract
Suicide bombers are the most used weapon of global terrorism today, owing their success to
the element of surprise, as well as the broad availability of targets - we are all possible targets.
Keywords: terrorism, security, female suicide bombers, questionnaire, research.
Introduction
The theme and contents of this research are part of the eld of security studies. The
subject of this paper is focused on the scienti c - theoretical studies of terrorism
through suicide bombers, both men and children,with a particular interest in women
suicide bombers. The primary goal of this research is to nd the answer to the question
of how much people are informed in suicidal terrorism, and their knowledge relevant
to the topic.
This research will study the answers of three di erent target groups: police,
psychology and social science students, and civilians. There is also an interest to see
if there will be possible deviations in the various groups. In the end, the answers will
be compared to the di erent theories gathered during my own studies on suicide
terrorism.
2. Contemporary terrorism
Suicide bombers are the most used weapon of global terrorism today, and they owe
their success to the element of surprise, as well as the availability of targets since we
are all possible targets.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Islamic militancy increased wanting to pursuit religious and
political goals. A large number of militants were inspired by the Islamic Revolution
in Iran in 1979. In the 1990s, well-known acts of violence that targeted civilians were
the a ack on the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists on February 27, 1993, the
gas a ack on Tokyo's AumShinrikyo Subway March 20, 1995 and the bombing of
Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh a month later that
same year.1
The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis on October 23, 2002was a siege made by 40 to 50
armed Chechens who claimed to be loyal to the Islamist militant separatist movement
in Chechnya. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces
from Chechnya and the end of the Second Chechen War. The a ack was o cially
led byMovsarBarayev. A er a two-and-a-half-day siege, Russian Spetsnaz forces
released an unknown chemical agent (thought to be fentanyl, 3-methylfentanyl) into
1 Jeremy Wiznewski, Torture, Terrorism, and the Use of Violence,Cambridge Scholars Publishing, str. 175.

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