Non State Sponsored Terrorism (Essay Sample)

Non State Sponsored Terrorism
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Non state sponsored terrorism is the most common menace in the contemporary world today. It encompasses all the typical forms of terrorism, especially the one that emanates from religious extremism and fundamentalism. It is usually motivated by several things such as politics, ethnic, ideological or religious agendas and in most cases targets noncombatant members of the larger society; in order to send a message to a greater audience (Martin & Prager, 2019). Non state sponsored terrorism is usually quite vicious since it works at trying to change the perceptions and the rules of the state, hence forcing things to arm-twist the state into taking a different approach to certain issues.
State sponsored and non-state sponsored terrorism have very little differences. They might only differ from the perspective of the funders of each, with the state funding one and individual groups organizing the other. In terms of the scale of operation, there is also some difference with state sponsored terrorism covering a larger scale and being more sophisticated due to the abundance of resources at its disposal from the funding state. Non state sponsored terrorism on the other hand, is usually of a lower scale due to its localized approach and the fact that it works behind the scenes to avoid detection by security systems (Hewitt, 2020). Apart from this, they both have a similar goal of advancing a certain point or message through fear and destruction.
The political origin of terrorist attacks, both state-sponsored and non-state-sponsored, usually alters the effects on the domestic and global communities. This is by clearly identifying the common goal of both types of terrorism as advancing a certain ideology. The domestic and global communities become acquainted to the motive of the same and th