Why Terrorist Groups Can't Last Forever
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml What can extremist groups of the past teach us about defeating the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, and other modern day terrorist ...
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A recent study by the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that terrorism is on the rise, and groups like ISIS and Boko Haram are obviously still making headlines. So, what do we do? Is there a way to stop terrorist groups? Well the good news, is that all terrorist groups will end at some point. In fact, the Global Terrorism Database found that almost 75% of active terrorist groups before 1997 lasted less than one year. One Harvard study examined the post-9/11 world and found that terrorist groups that ended before 2008 lasted an average of 14 years. So for the most part, terrorist groups are temporary. The real question is, why do they break up? The most common reason a terrorist group stops committing terrorism, is because they eventually become a political party. A study of 648...
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A recent study by the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that terrorism is on the rise, and groups like ISIS and Boko Haram are obviously still making headlines. So, what do we do? Is there a way to stop terrorist groups? Well the good news, is that all terrorist groups will end at some point. In fact, the Global Terrorism Database found that almost 75% of active terrorist groups before 1997 lasted less than one year. One Harvard study examined the post-9/11 world and found that terrorist groups that ended before 2008 lasted an average of 14 years. So for the most part, terrorist groups are temporary. The real question is, why do they break up? The most common reason a terrorist group stops committing terrorism, is because they eventually become a political party. A study of 648...
