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Appendix I: Recent Trends and Future Concerns in Worldwide Terrorism (Gary LaFree)
Pages 143-146

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... The most active terrorist organizations in driving this worldwide boom were the Taliban, Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) , and Boko Haram.
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... However, in late December of that year, a previously unidentified coronavirus, now called COVID-19, emerged from Wuhan, China, quickly spread throughout China, then expanded globally, eventually affecting all countries of the world. To the best of my knowledge, at the time of this writing there are no published empirical studies dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on terrorist attacks and fatalities.
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... Few individuals or communities prefer living endlessly in chaos and violence. As the deadly impact of COVID-19 eventually subsides, we can only hope that we have reached that tipping point.
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