Terrorist Attacks on Non-Governmental Organizations

Craig S. Stapley

Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2014.44029                

Abstract

Understanding the process by which terrorist groups decide on whom to target would seem to be a process that might lend itself to study and generalization that would be helpful in predicting later attacks. This study hopes to look at the attacks on non-governmental organizations and determine if there is a systematic set of measures that would allow us to determine if terrorist groups do rationally approach target selection in such a way to derive a pattern that would inform future attack avoidance.

Keywords

Terrorism, Targeting, NGO, Non-Governmental Organization, Terrorist

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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