“International Law, Human Rights & Counterterrorism”, by Foroughi & Sodiqov, 2012
The relationship among international law, human rights, and counterterrorism has been organic, still to be fully determined, and heavily influenced by events of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Among other things, there has yet to be a universal definition for terrorism, and though the phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” applies to today’s realpolitik world (Rosand 2003), there is also some amount of agreement among states in recent years. Generally speaking, terrorism is defined as (1) an attack committed against civilians with the intention of causing death or serious bodily irjury (2) hostage taking, or (3) damaging of property (such as an attack on a power plant or even cyberterrorism) with the purpose of inciting terror among the general population, or part of the populatiory or compelling a government or organization to abstain from a certain act (Universiteit Leiden 2007)…. CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE
