High Level Of Terrorism Essay

2a. The world has seen a lot and has been through a lot: kings, queens, empires, wars, revolutions, changes, but now it came to a point where it has to deal with terrorism. After the end of the Cold War, terrorism is the biggest problem the world had to face and is still facing, now more than ever. But what is terrorism? Terrorism is the ruthless use of violence and threat of violence, a strategy to obtain certain purposes. It is the killing of innocent people by nongovernmental actors for different reasons- political statements, religion, ideological. (Matusitz, 2013) Researchers are interested in this topic because it is probably one of the most changeling issues for national and international security. Terrorism is

My hypothesis is the following: high levels of refugees do not cause high levels of terrorism. I arrived at this hypothesis by trusting my intuition and after doing some research, that proved to back up my intuition. Therefore, I identify X as the level of refugees and Y as the level of terrorism and based on my hypothesis there is no causal relation between them, but we have to test it using the four hurdles. For the first hurdle the answer is yes: there is a credible causal relation between the two variable at first sight, but the answer to the second hurdle is still yes and now we have a problem. If Y can cause X and in this situation it can, high levels of terrorism is one of the reasons for the high level of refugees as they are trying to escape the terror and the persecution, we have a problem with the causal relation and we need to proceed carefully to the next hurdle. For the third hurdle, we have a correlation between the two, still correlation does not mean causation and this is why we still have to be careful. The last hurdle is the most important one and because we know that there are other variables (Z) that can influence terrorism more than the incoming number of refugees, we can admit that there is no causal relation between