SOME DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM BY SCHOLARS INCLUDE

Chief Bassiouni states that,

Terrorism is an ideologically motivated strategy of internally prescribed violence designed to inspire terror within a particular segment of a given society in order to achieve a power outcome or to propagandize a claim or grievance, irrespective of whether its perpetrators are acting for and unbehalf of themselves or unbehalf of a state”.

Walter Laqurur’s definition is that,

Terrorism consist the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when innocent people are targeted”.

James M. Poland in his definition states that,

Terrorism is the premeditated, deliberate, systematic murder, mayhem and threatening of the innocent, to create fear and intimidation in order to gain a political or tactical advantage, usually to influence an audience”.