The Global Terrorism Index: measuring terrorism can help us understand its nature and prevent it

... or the government. Over 75% of the attacks were armed assaults and explosions. 10% of the attacks were assassinations suggesting that they were of a political nature. The dispute over Chechnya continues to be the main source of terrorist violence in Russia. How does the information provided by the Index help to address the global terrorism problem? The Global Terrorism Index can be a very useful tool for policy makers in their efforts to tackle terrorism. Governments can draw interesting conclusions from this data. Such as, that higher levels of terrorism strongly correlate with low political stability,...