System of Terror in Africa. An Approach to Counter-Terrorism

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Security grade: EXLLENT course: NATIONAL SECURITY language: English abstract: This paper discusses systematic elements of terrorist groups that determine their continued existence and operational effectiveness in Africa. According to system theory open systems are real-world systems whose boundaries allow exchanges of energy material information resources etc. with the larger external environment or system in which they exist. Accordingly terrorism phenomenon is an open system in which ideology tactics technology and many other aspects shared among terrorist groups despite their differences in many aspects. Hence the paper will argues such common trends of terrorist phenomenon in Africa.