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    This document discusses state-sponsored terrorism and its various forms. It defines state- sponsored terrorism as funding, support, or aid provided by governments to groups or individuals to conduct terror acts against other countries or their own citizens. There are two main types: active sponsorship, where states directly manage terrorist groups, and passive sponsorship, where states deliberately do not impede terrorist activities. State sponsorship can also come from central governments, independent government bureaucracies, or influential social actors within a country. The implications of state-sponsored terrorism include countries spending large sums to combat terrorism, international aid groups being unwilling to operate in terrorist-prone areas, and

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    This document discusses state-sponsored terrorism and its various forms. It defines state- sponsored terrorism as funding, support, or aid provided by governments to groups or individuals to conduct terror acts against other countries or their own citizens. There are two main types: active sponsorship, where states directly manage terrorist groups, and passive sponsorship, where states deliberately do not impede terrorist activities. State sponsorship can also come from central governments, independent government bureaucracies, or influential social actors within a country. The implications of state-sponsored terrorism include countries spending large sums to combat terrorism, international aid groups being unwilling to operate in terrorist-prone areas, and

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    RUNNING HEAD: STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM 1

    Title: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM

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    State-sponsored terrorism is one of the major problems facing global peace. It refers to

    the funding, support or aid of organized groups and individuals by a government towards its

    citizens or natives of another country to conduct various vicious acts that bring about fear amidst

    the targeted group in order to achieve its set incentives. Such acts have slowly crept up on

    society over time and now, they are a vice that can no longer be ignored. Such forms of state-

    sponsored terrorism include: Active sponsorship, passive state sponsorship,

    Active sponsorship

    Active state sponsorship is the intentional actions of a government regime to provide

    support to a terrorist group either in form of weapons, safe haven, tactical support, financial

    support or media platforms. There exists several forms of active sponsorship: active state

    sponsorship and passive tate sponsorship.

    Active State Sponsorship

    In this scenario, states are directly involved in the management of the terrorist groups

    they are involved with.Though absolute coordinaion of a terrorist group is rare, many regimes

    often try to coordinate the running of terrorist groups in order to fulfill their desires.Contact-

    states are in frequent contact with terrorist groups, this they achieve by either direct contact or

    via the numerous contacts they have at their disposal.

    Passive state sponsorship

    This is generally the states deliberate inability to impede terrorist activities thereby

    allowing them to prosper. Such sponsorship is achieved by tolerance in which some governments

    may take up positions of 'non interference' with terrorist sects. This is done in the hope that
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    these sects will grow, get funding and flourish without their interference. There are two

    conditions that foster the growth of terrorism. These are ignorance and incapacity.

    Ignorance becomes a factor when it may not be in the best interests of some governments

    to facilitate terrorist but they may choose not to hinder these activities. This is so because , either

    the groups activities do not affect state interests or the groups activities are isolated. In contrast,

    incapacity is a situation where some regimes generally lack the means to combat such terrorist

    groups because some local powerful individuals support these terrorist groups.

    Inasmuch as understanding the forms of state sponsored terrorism is important, the term

    state should also be put into context. State sponsorship can be then categorized into three: central

    government sponsorship, independent bureaucracy and key social actors.

    The Central Government

    These are positions taken up by either elected or non-elected leaders who are in support

    of a terrorist group and are recognized as part of the government by the public.

    Independent Bureaucracy

    There exists within a government independent sections that may act in support of a

    terrorist group with or without the knowledge of the government. This ignorance of the

    leadership may be intentional or non-intentional.

    Key social actors

    Some interested parties such as professional bodies, wealthy individuals among others,

    they command a lot of influence and affluence which they may use to support terrorist groups.
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    Implications

    The first direct implication is that countries use huge sums of public funds meant for

    development and growth to identify and deal with the terrorists in order to protect the social,

    economic and political interests of its citizens.

    State sponsored terrorism directly affects people in terrorist prone areas especially when

    hit with epidemics and famine. This is because international bodies that offer such aid become

    unwilling to send their employees for fear of their safety. This therefore forces the poor

    developing countries that are terrorist prone to strain their limited resources in order to deal with

    their own calamities.

    International trade is hardly hit by terrorist activities, especially in cases where ships,

    which are the main form of transportation of food, vital medical facilities are targets to pirates.

    This in turn increases the shipping cost of the various goods therefore creating a scarcity of

    certain goods and thus impacting negatively on industries that directly depend on these goods.

    This causes the decrease in standards of living in underdeveloped countries due to the increase of

    the prices of basic commodities.


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    REFERENCES

    McFayden, Elgie (2009) Global Implications of State Sponsored Terrorism

    The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism, Daniel L. Byman, Analysis paper

    number 16, May 2008

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