Terrorism and International Politics in the 21st Century; the Way Forward
Author: Dr. Kabir Mohammed and Jibrin Ibrahim Gani, Nigeria
Abstract: Terrorists activities in modern world are rampant, sporadical in nature, very threat and disastrous to the existence of man and his society. The increasing rate of these activities of the terrorists is strongly associated with the negative role of international politics, diplomacy and the western tactics and strategies of isolation, sanctions and conspiracy. But in any event the policy makers of the third world nations’ in particular must be criticized of their failure to rise to the responsibility, alongside, failure to provide security to the lives and properties of their deluded masses, demand for the satisfaction of long term plans, political, economic, social and ideological interests. However, it is against this backdrop this study titled “Terrorism and International Politics in the 21st century; The way forward” is carried out to examine the genesis/causes, motives and effects of this subject matter of our write-ups. In this study many published and unpublished materials as well as informants were consulted. The interest of the study is to acquaint the students, general reading public and world at large with the prevalence of various uprising, terrorists’ activities in various ramifications and the concerted efforts of the governments concerned to overcome the unfortunate state of affairs which is nasty and disastrous in nature. Further to the above, it highlights the nature, character and manifestations of insurgencies and has on the other hand draws into light that radical Islamic terrorism shares many characteristics with ethnic, economic and political violence and rightly observed that all forms of terrorists activities are Islamically illegal and contrary to the law of Islam, inhumane and irreligious movements because are not purely on religious foundations. To the study, terrorism is no more but a despicable crime, since one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter and terrorists are enemies that are not easily traceable, with myriad of complex motivations, as individuals and as groups. Terrorism is mysterious phenomena, a form of political violence, a tactic, not a movement, which represents the final escalation in the process of political violence. It is an act that cannot exist, if other non-violent are those of reform and conflict resolution were available to the dissidents. At the tail end, the study proffers solution to the challenges confronting security to lives and properties in the 21st century.