Narco-Terrorism Threat Assessment and Policy Analysis (original) (raw)
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Starting with the last quarter of the 20th century we live awakens to some global illegal enterprises that produce kinds of global threats for the world. ‘Narcoterrorism’ is one of these illegal enterprises that produce a kind of global threat as this form of terrorism establish a political environment that is fruitful for their illegal activities. Although it is very difficult to determine whether people involve terrorism in order to make these kinds of trade or in order to commit terrorism they use these kinds of trade as a kind of financial source and it is obvious that eventually these kinds of activities feed and support both terrorism and narcotic trade. Thus, they provide a global threat for the whole world. In this sense, Narcoterrorism needs proper risk assessment and risk management studies. In this study, I tried to make risk assessment on Narco nexus of terrorism with limited data through using common methodology that is taught us in the Global Risk Assessment course by Prof. Leslie W. Kennedy. To me, narcoterrorism provides a long-running structure for some terrorist organization that makes them strong in terms of financial sources and eventually makes difficult to prevent and resolve terrorism and keeps global threats alive in the world. On the other hand ongoing drug trafficking by terrorist organizations also makes this transportation durable and threats all world population particularly world youth. From this point of view, I believe that awareness on Narcoterrorism might contribute in the context of preparedness to emerging threats of the world through below-mentioned two ways. First by creating a focus on data producing and data collecting process, and second by creating an atmosphere that may result a global governmental response to the problem by addressing a need for establishing an agency to cope with the Narco nexus of terrorism.
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