Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Global Terrorism Index 2012

who defines what is a terrorist attack, the terrorists or the terrorized?
if the latter, then all those we have terrorized with drone attacks might provide a different answer from those who fired the drone attacks
the real issue is that now we have so politicized our global understandings that seemingly neutral statistics like these are almost transparent covers for what any baby marxist would recognize as ideological, in the althusserian sense
ken

On 12/5/12 1:44 AM, Yona Maro wrote:

The  Global Terrorism Index (GTI) systematically ranks and compares 158 countries according to the impact of terrorism. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the GTI maps and analyses trends in terrorism over the last 10 years. The index is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.  KKEYFINDINGS

• From 2002 to 2011, North America was the region least likely to suffer from terrorism

• While more terrorist attacks are being recorded, the number of fatalities has declined by 25% since 2007.

• Only 31 out of 158 countries ranked have not experienced a terrorist attack since 2002

• Most terrorist attacks occur in the context of a wider conflict situation

• Since the start of the Iraq invasion the number of terrorist incidents occurring each year has increased fourfold, globally
  

• In 2011 Iraq was the country that was most impacted by terrorism, followed by Pakistan and Afghanistan

Link: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/globalterrorismindex/

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