LAWFARE: THE USE OF THE LAW AS A WEAPON OF WAR
LAWFARE: THE USE OF THE LAW AS A WEAPON OF WAR

Summary/Abstract: Undoubtedly, terrorism represents a current, challenging and dynamic phenomenon and issue of our times. Terrorist are constantly engaged in a learning process, not only preparing new and more dangerous tactics and approaches, but also working to understand the counter-measures designed against them. By anticipating such meaures, terrorists are able to surprise their enemies time after time. It is thus the responsability of experts from every branch and discipline of the field – academia, law enforcement, intelligence community, military and diplomatic circles – to be at least as innovative as the forces they seek to defeat. One of the last complementary tactic to terrorism and asymmetric warfare is the wrongful manipulation of the law and legal systems in order to achieve strategic political or military ends. As a legal concept, terrorism strikes not only at the political power of states or at the safety of individual citizens, but at the law's own stability as law.

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