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On Historical Experience in Combating Terrorism
On Historical Experience in Combating Terrorism
Pages 76-82
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Regional Society Strategic Security Assistance Fund In order to develop a modern strategy for countering terrorism and political extremism, it is very important to consider historical experience in combating these social phenomena. This consideration should include both domestic Russian historical experience and foreign experience.
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, which attests to the heightened survival capacity of organizations that rely on the sentiments and aspirations of significant segments of the population as a real social support base for their ideas. This circumstance is particularly important for predicting probable terrorist activities and organizing countermeasures against them.
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in Northern Ireland, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States and since the late 1960s the Black Panthers, which have in turn used terrorist methods as well. Other examples include the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and the death squads in E1 Salvador, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the White Hand, and the death squads in Guatemala.
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Based on published research, it is possible to highlight the following special characteristics of legislative regulation of the fight against terrorism. Its development is tied primarily with tendencies and features of the crime situation in a given country, the presence of political will among the country's leadership to combat terrorism, characteristics of the country's political traditions and culture, and the presence of certain circumstances related to international law that in turn must be implemented in the appropriate legislative acts.
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More than a thousand operations carried out by Israeli special forces units aimed at physically liquidating terrorists still have not brought peace to the Middle East. It should also be emphasized that as historical experience shows, the "slide" of a country and society into the realm of armed violence can occur relatively quickly, while getting rid of terrorism sometimes takes many years or even decades.
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In conclusion, it should be emphasized that the system of antiterrorist measures is constantly being improved and its effectiveness continually analyzed, both in Russia and abroad. Therefore, the study of foreign experience amassed in the battle of intelligence services against this national security threat must also be conducted in a constant, systematic, and planned manner.
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However, as history shows, contemporary world civilization still has a long way to go before the philosophy of a culture of peace truly becomes a reality.
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