Concept of Terrorism: Some Definitional Crises

In the modern political usage, terrorism has become the most controversial term .to be defined objectively. This controversy is magnified when it comes to the notion of one man s terrorist is another s freedom fighter. In this process, another difficulty is which forms of violence should be recognized as legitimate and which should not. In other words, the subjectivity of the term has not only exacerbated the threat, but also made it more sinister than it has been in the past.