S ON TERROR

MORTI DATORATE TERORISMULUI

TERRORISM IS ON THE RISE: 17,958

PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN TERRORIST
ATTACKS LAST YEAR; THATS 61%
MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

Iraq Prime Minister appointed.

The number of countries that experienced 50 or more

deaths as a result of terrorism also increased by 60% since
last year.
Since 2000, there have been over 48,000 terrorist attacks
that have killed over 107,000 people. There are five times
more people killed in terrorist attacks today than there were
in 2000.

Usama bin Ladin killed.

Syrian Civil War
begins.

Rest of the world

95%

September 11. War begins

in Afghanistan.

OECD

Bhutto assasinated in
Pakistan.

War begins in Iraq.

Arab Uprising.

20,000

Global total
Iraq,
Afghanistan,

NUMBER OF DEATHS

16,000

Pakistan,
Nigeria & Syria

12,000

ISIL capture large parts

of Syria and Iraq
Rest of the world

8,000
4,000

0
2000

5%

Precursor of ISIL begin to

launch
attacks in Syria and Iraq.

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

Around 5% of all 107,000 terrorist

fatalities since 2000 have occurred
in OECD countries. In 2013 the eight
OECD countries that recorded deaths
from terrorism were Turkey, Mexico,
the United States, the United
Kingdom, Greece, Israel, Czech
Republic and Chile.

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FOUR GROUPS WERE RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE MAJORITY OF TERRORISM
FATALITIES FROM 20002013.

12185

Taliban

66%

Al-Qaida

Total, 2000
2013
Attacks
Deaths

8763 9115

Injuries

8585

2757

3440
750

1089

Al-Qaida

Taliba
n

8081

3111
1759

492

Boko Haram

Boko
Haram

ISIL

In 2013, these 4 groups were

responsible for 66 per cent of all
deaths from claimed terrorist
attacks.

ISIL

CAUSES OF TERRORISM
While drivers of terrorist activity are often complex, countries with higher
levels of terrorism were found to have three statistically significant
factors:
Greater social hostilities between different ethnic, religious and
linguistic groups, lack of intergroup cohesion and high levels of group
grievances.
Presence of state sponsored violence such as extrajudicial
killings, political terror and gross human rights abuses.
Higher levels of other forms of violence including deaths from
organised conflict, likelihood of violent demonstrations, levels of
violent crime and perceptions of criminality.

TERRORISM DOESNT ARISE

ON ITS OWN; BY IDENTIFYING
THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED
WITH IT, LONG TERM
POLICIES CAN BE
IMPLEMENTED TO IMPROVE
THE UNDERLYING
ENVIRONMENT THAT
NURTURES TERRORISM.
Steve Killelea, Executive
Chairman, Institute for Economics
and Peace

Military force

7%

HOW TERRORIST GROUPS

END
Since the 1960s the majority of terrorist groups ended by
either joining the political process and becoming a legitimate
political party, or were ended by policing and intelligence
agencies breaking up the group. Military force in of itself was
rarely responsible for ending terrorist groups.

Achieved goals

10%

Politicisation

43%

Policing

40%