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Terrorism, Risk and Uncertainty: Global Intersections, Challenges and Solutions
Terrorism, Risk and Uncertainty: Global Intersections, Challenges and Solutions
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)
Language: Spanish, French and English
Session Type: Oral
The threat of terrorism is one of the most significant challenges of the modern age. According to the Global Terrorism Database - an open source index which collates data annually on terrorist incidents - in 2017, there were 10,900 terrorist attacks around the world. These attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 26,400 people, including 8,075 perpetrators and 18,488 victims. In as much as global media outlets have largely concentrated on relatively rare cases of terrorism in affluent Western industrialised nations, the vast majority of attacks take place in the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Indeed, these regions accounted for over 90% of serious attacks in 2017. Clearly, there are important commonalities and intersections that span across the globe in relation to the nature and causes of terrorism. This panel seeks to draw on evidence and cases from different regions to elucidate both the key challenges and the key uncertainties faced in reducing the risk of terrorism across the globe. The key ambition is to foster dialogue between scholars from the North, East, South and West to advance innovative and sociologically informed solutions to the problem of terrorism. Cross-cultural and comparative papers are especially welcomed, as are contributions from scholars, practitioners and researchers from countries historically under-represented at international academic forums.
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