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    Terrorism is broadly defined as the use or threatened use of violence to achieve political, religious, or ideological aims. It is considered a crime and illegal under anti-terrorism laws. However, developing a universally agreed legal definition has been difficult due to political disagreements over issues like national liberation movements. While many international laws have been adopted to criminalize certain terrorist acts, the international community has struggled to formulate one comprehensive, legally binding definition that all can accept. Experts themselves have been unable to reach a consensus definition.

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    Terrorism

    Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is defined as the use or threatened use of violence (terror) in
    order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim. It is classified as fourth-generation
    warfare and as a violent crime. In modern times, terrorism is considered a major threat to
    society and therefore illegal under anti-terrorism laws in most jurisdictions. It is also
    considered a war crime under the laws of war when used to target non-combatants, such as
    civilians, neutral military personnel, or enemy prisoners of war.[1]
    A broad array of political organizations have practiced terrorism to further their objectives. It
    has been practiced by both right-wing and left-wing political organizations, nationalist
    groups, religious groups, revolutionaries, and ruling governments.[2] The symbolism of
    terrorism can exploit human fear to help achieve these goals.[3]
    The definition of terrorism has proven controversial. Various legal systems and government
    agencies use different definitions of terrorism in their national legislation. Moreover, the
    international community has been slow to formulate a universally agreed, legally binding
    definition of this crime. These difficulties arise from the fact that the term "terrorism" is
    politically and emotionally charged.[13] In this regard, Angus Martyn, briefing the Australian
    Parliament, stated,
    The international community has never succeeded in developing an accepted comprehensive
    definition of terrorism. During the 1970s and 1980s, the United Nations attempts to define the
    term floundered mainly due to differences of opinion between various members about the use
    of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination.[14]
    These divergences have made it impossible for the United Nations to conclude a
    Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism that incorporates a single, allencompassing, legally binding, criminal law definition of terrorism.[15] The international
    community has adopted a series of sectoral conventions that define and criminalize various
    types of terrorist activities.
    Since 1994, the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly condemned terrorist acts
    using the following political description of terrorism:
    Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the public, a group of
    persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable,
    whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious
    or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.[16]

    U.S. Code Title 22 Chapter 38, Section 2656f(d) defines terrorism as: "Premeditated,
    politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational
    groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience."[17]
    Bruce Hoffman, a scholar, has noted:
    It is not only individual agencies within the same governmental apparatus that cannot agree
    on a single definition of terrorism. Experts and other long-established scholars in the field are
    equally incapable of reaching a consensus. In the first edition of his magisterial survey,
    'Political Terrorism: A Research Guide,' Alex Schmid devoted more than a hundred pages to
    examining more than a hundred different definitions of terrorism in an effort to discover a
    broadly acceptable, reasonably comprehensive explication of the word. Four years and a
    second edition later, Schmid was no closer to the goal of his quest, conceding in the first
    sentence of the revised volume that the "search for an adequate definition is still on". Walter
    Laqueur despaired of defining terrorism in both editions of his monumental work on the
    subject, maintaining that it is neither possible to do so nor worthwhile to make the attempt.[18]

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