Affect Heuristic - The tendency for perception and behaviour to be influenced excessively by images that trigger emotional responses.
Agroterrorism - The use of biological weapons to attack food supplies, typically dispersed through the soil, seeds or crops, feed, or livestock, or at food processing plants or warehouses.
Ammunition- the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon. Ammunition is both expendable weapons and the component parts of other weapons that create the effect on a target.
Aum Shinrikyo - An extremist religious sect founded by Shoko Asahara in 1989, responsible for a 1995 sarin (nerve gas) attack that killed 12 people and injured thousands of other commuters on the Tokyo subway.
Bioterrorism – the use of poisons or agents derived from living entities such as bacteria, viruses, and toxic plants. Examples of biological agents include sarin gas, cyanide etc.
Counterterrorism – the combined efforts of policy-makers, law-enforcement agencies, government officials, businesses, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to prevent and combat terrorism.
Cyberterrorism - Terrorist attacks on computer networks and systems. Government and corporate computer systems are especially vulnerable to cyber-terrorist attacks, as are other computer users depending on the Internet and e-mail systems.
Eco-terrorism – The action of causing deliberate environmental damage in order to further political ends. Extremism – the holding of extreme political or religious views, often advocating illegal, violent, or other forms of extreme behavior.
Islamic Extremism - an ideology that advocates the reorganization of society around fundamentalist Islamic principles opposing tolerance, diversity of thought, and individual liberty.
Jihadism – the belief in the need to employ jihad to pursue Islamist objectives. The founders of the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, as well as Sayyid Qutb, each professed the belief that jihad against non-believers should be an individual obligation upon every Muslim.
Martyrdom - the act of dying or suffering for one’s beliefs. In an extremist context, individuals may be willing to carry out terrorist attacks to pursue what they perceive as a state of martyrdom.
Racism - the belief that races are superior to others and that a person’s intelligence and moral capacity may be determined by his or her race.
Radicalisation – a process by which an individual becomes increasingly extremist in their political, religious, or social ideologies.
Terrorism - broadly defined as the use of violence by a non-state actor to pursue a political end or to intimidate civilians.
White supremacy - Beliefs and ideas purporting natural superiority of the lighter-skinned, or “white,” human races over other racial groups
