Global Contemporary Terrorism on the Platform of Identity
Global Contemporary Terrorism on the Platform of Identity

Summary/Abstract: Today, when the positive and negative consequences of globalization are united, the reformation of “old values” strives for the creation of unique identities. These processes in themselves contain multiple challenges, which may call into question personal, collective, religious, cultural and national identity. The basis of personal identity always has the need to show its limits to the world and people. Its organization is the perception of itself as a different being, in accordance with itself, and separate from others. It shows the relative consistency in behavior and experiencing oneself. It slowly changes throughout life, and it reflects the stages through which the individual passes. The human being strives to establish identity in the collective identity as well in order to find the meaning of life. The religious segment of the identity combines national affiliation and the denomination as an inseparable dyad. Cultural identity, a part of a self-consciousness of a group emerges and develops depending on the criteria that this group establishes in relations with other social groups. In the end, the need to define someone as a member of his state is in the personal identity segment, with multiple roots. The danger of losing identity in globalization processes gives terrorism a new dimension. This kind of terrorism does not know cross-border and regional elements; it is global, more targeted, unpredictable, more organized, and its diffusion gives a new dimension to threats. Given that modern terrorism has these characteristics and that its consequences are multiplied, the essence of this paper explains the deep dimension of terrorism in which motivational terrorist base lies the acquisition, preservation and defense of identity on the basis of religion, culture and nationality, and the defense of individual and/ or collective identity in terroristic activity, and caused by the negative consequences of globalization.

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