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Pluralizam značenja „terorizma“ - teorijska i praktična važnost razumijevanja fenomena

The authors analyze available terrorism definitions (N = 334), systematized in the database of definitions that was constructed from the scientific and academic sources, the expert sources, the available official sources of various institutions and organizations, news, etc. The content analysis establishes the key elements of the definition, and frequency analysis shows which of the elements are most commonly used for defining terrorism. The analysis confirmed the earlier findings of the surveys about terrorism definitions, where the highest percentages have the following elements: violence/force, political element, fear/terror, threat, psychological effects, victim-target differentiation, etc. Also, some new elements have been detected like: state as actor, social aspect/motive, international aspect, ideology, religion, etc.

terorizam ; protuterorizam ; baza definicija terorizma ; elementi definicija terorizma

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