Psychology of terrorism

Terrorism is the hugest problem of the modern world, and people from all parts of the world are searching for the ways to solve it and to fight against perpetrators. So, it is natural that all scientific investigations paid attention to this problem trying to give the theoretical background to this problem. And one of scientists that became especially useful is psychology. Maybe knowing the psychological portrait of perpetrators we'll have the possibility to prevent their harmful activity.

The modern psychology that pays attention to terrorism problem usually works in two directions. The first one is to explain the essence and the nature of terrorism and the second one is to give the effective ways of fighting the terrorist threat.

But at the same time there is the dissonance in the problems of terrorism. According to some mass media and scientists people pay too much attention to the terrorism while it is necessary to fight against it and then in few years there will be nothing to talk about. And sometimes considering the terrorist problems people simply loose the main and the most important features that should be studied.

But every problem must be investigated from the finding out the origins and mechanisms of the activity and especially of we talk about terrorism that takes lives of people and if psychologists don't consider the problem attentively people may die.