The Role of Young Generation in Counter-Terrorism

“The Role of Young Generation in Counter-Terrorism”

Rahmat Syahid Suraya

-Master Student in International Relations-

 

Terrorism is a criminal act that influences an audience beyond the immediate victim. The strategy of terrorists is to commit acts of violence that draws the attention of the local populace, the government, and the world to their cause. Terrorism has been described variously as both a tactic and strategy; a crime and a holy duty; a justified reaction to oppression and an inexcusable abomination. Obviously, a lot depends on whose point of view is being represented. Terrorism has often been an effective tactic for the weaker side in a conflict. As an asymmetric form of conflict, it confers coercive power with many of the advantages of military force at a fraction of the cost. Due to the secretive nature and small size of terrorist organizations, they often offer opponents no clear organization to defend against or to deter.

People know the terrorists because the media into misperception that terrorists are done in the name of religion. But if we look at the terrorist in a religious point of view that there is no one religion that encourages its people to commit acts of terrorism. All religion told his people to do good and lead them in peace. It's just that his followers are misinterpreting religion of their own. So was individual acts of terrorist action itself which may be influenced by others in ways that brainwash or people who have very little knowledge about religion. Because the act of terrorism is currently preaching everywhere make that religion should be blamed.

Research has found that sensationalist media coverage of acts of terrorism results in more such acts being committed. The study will prompt further debate about how the international media responds to atrocities. It also raises the possibility that media reports about a terrorist act can be viewed as a “warning” that follow-on attacks will be perpetrated in the near future.

More and more people are misinterpreting as an act of religious terrorism then the media can be blamed. Because criminals can change to a hero, black into white. The media took pictures of “black sheep” and spread to the entire world as if that's a reflection of a true religion. Therefore, we must together set the strategy for the sake of propaganda media in ways not take it for granted what is reported, but rather find out more what actually happened from various sources are trusted, or we can come directly to the location for the actual condition.

Possible Ways:

1.      Stop Being Racist

a)      Stop using racial slurs. Sometimes you may not even be aware that your language has a racial meaning. Terms like "Chinese auction," "Indian giver" or calling a bad deal a "gyp," a term derived from "gypsy", which is in itself a racial slur against Romani people, are considered offensive by many people. Racist jokes aren't funny. The fact that you don't mean it, or that you are only intending to be humorous, doesn't make it acceptable to use racist language, dress style or appearance or to stereotype others.

b)      Be vigilant about systemic and invisible racism. Often times, racist behavior isn't about saying something nasty to another person, it's about less obvious behavior like not interviewing someone for a job because their name sounds foreign, or not sitting by someone on the bus because of their skin color.

As you go through your day, think carefully about your own behaviors to make sure you aren't engaging in these subtler forms of racism

2.      Educated the Children

That not to do terrorism because it is a criminal act and just neglecting our lives. After a terrorist incident, protect children from seeing too many sights and images of the incident, including those on the Internet, television or newspapers.

3.       Respect and be Open to All Beliefs

a)      Never disrupt others while pray as long as it does not harm ourselves or others, for example at the moment there is our friend who will pray we can wait until he finish.

b)      Look at people from other faiths as people, not as categories or religions. Don't block someone out just because their religion does not match up with yours.

c)      Look for similarities. While they may be called or observed differently, many traditions have similar core values, such as helping the needy, leading a moral, ethical life, and being loyal to the faith.

4.      Understand the motivates and tell terrorism works to others

Luis de la Corte in his journal article titled Explaining Terrorism: A Psychosocial Approach. In sum, neither the individual psychology of terrorists, nor the social environments provide a complete explanation of why individuals become involved in terrorism. For this reason, more and more researchers are turning toward a psychosocial perspective in their studies.

a)      First psychosocial principle: terrorism must not be seen as a syndrome but as a method of social and political influence. Social psychologists describe one's environment as the place where a person's behaviour is influenced by the social settings in which they live and their psychological predispositions. But first and foremost, it is a sphere of social influence, an area where people attempt to influence the behaviour and beliefs of other people.

b)      Second principle: the attributes of terrorists are shaped by processes of social interaction. Obviously, growing up in an environment marked by radical ideas and values could lead one to a join terrorist group which embraces the same ideas and values. For example, many members of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna(ETA), Red Brigades or Irish Republican Army (IRA) were born and raised in families respectively attached to the subculture of Basque nationalist (Reinares, 2001; Romero, 2006), Irish Catholic (Lee, 1983) or Italian radical left-wing (Della Porta, 1990).

c)      Third principle: terrorist organisations can be analyzed by analogy with other social movements. Many terrorist organisations can be closely related to cycles of political mobilization and mass protests against states that take place from time to time (Tarrow, 1989; Gonzalez Calleja, 2003). Very often, terrorist campaigns are the result of a long radicalization process of certain political or religious movement.

5.      Make People Aware

Tell that terrorism was prohibited in all religions. There is no one religion or teach someone sent to commit terrorism. The terrorists are simply destroyers and break harmony of people’s.

6.      No need to be scared of Terrorism

Community and the Government must together fight against terrorism. Tell and give information to others that the deed as an act of criminal and threaten the security of society and the State, terrorists will corrupt harmony of society.

7.      Interracial Marriage

Is a form of exogamy that involves a marriage between spouses who belong to different races. International marriage even between races is sufficient recommended because race is identical to a particular religion as the European Caucasoid Race – Christian, Caucasoid Arabs – Islam, Mongoloid Asia – Atheism, Negrito (Africa) – Islam & Christian, Latin America – Christian.

It is certainly not easy to do because of the differences language and culture, but if it carried out certainly would greatly reduce racist acts in the world.

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