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Terrorist Attacks on Non-Governmental Organizations
Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Open Journal of Political Science·Volume 04 (2014)·Pages 265–277·Published 5 September 2014·DOI10.4236/ojps.2014.44029
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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.
KeywordsTerrorismTargetingNGONon-Governmental OrganizationTerrorist
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