The Implications Of International Terrorism On Nigeria's National Security

CHAPTER ONETERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY-A NEXUSTerrorism as a Means of CoercionTerrorism is “the systematic use of fear especially as a means of coercion. Its aim is to get people scared.” It is a “strategy of intimidation and violence.”1 Terrorism as a premeditated, political motivated violence, perpetrated against non combatant targets by sub national groups, usually intended to influence an audience; political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear through the violent victimization and destruction of non combatant targets. Terrorism is a g…