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GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX Capturing the Impact of Terrorism for the Last Decade 01 INTRODUCTION 2012 GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX Capturing the Impact of Terrorism for the Last Decade 01 INTRODUCTION THE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS & PEACE QUANTIFYING PEACE AND ITS BENEFITS The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measuring peace; and uncovering the relationships between business, peace and prosperity as well as promoting a better understanding of the cultural, economic and political factors that create peace. IEP has offices in Sydney and New York. It works with a wide range of partners internationally and collaborates with intergovernmental organizations on measuring and communicating the economic value of peace. For more information visit www.economicsandpeace.org SPECIAL THANKS IEP would like to thank the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) headquartered at the University of Maryland for their cooperation on this study and for providing the Institute for Economics and Peace with their Global Terrorism Database (GTD) datasets on terrorism. IEP would also like to give a special mention to GPI Expert Panel member Dr Ekaterina Stepanova, Head, Peace and Conflict Studies Unit, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), for her early advice and guidance in the development of the Global Terrorism Index. 2 3 01 INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Results Map 4 Executive Summary 6 01 What is the Global Terrorism Index? 8 INTRODUCTION Methodology 9 Results Overview 12 Terrorism Incidents Map 14 02 Biggest Impact of Terrorism 16 RESULTS Declining Impact of Terrorism 21 Trends in Terrorism 23 Terrorism by Government Type 28 Terrorism by Income Group 29 Terrorism By Region 30 - Case Study: The US, UK, and Europe 31 Terrorist Groups and Ideology 32 Correlates of Terrorism 34 Terrorism and Corruption 38 Black Swans and Burstiness 40 03 Professor Gary LaFree, Director, START Consortium SPECIAL THANKS EXPERT Beyond Al-Qa’ida 42 CONTRIBUTIONS Bill Braniff, Executive Director, START Consortium Youth Unemployment and Terrorism 44 Professor Raul Caruso, Institute for Economic Policy Appendix A - Full GTI Rank and Raw Score, 2011 46 Appendix B - 100 Worst Terrorist Incidents, 2002-11 48 04 Appendix C - Country Codes 50 APPENDICES 2 3 01 INTRODUCTION GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX 2011 HIGHEST IMPACT OF TERRORISM 8.01 ! 10 6.01 ! 8 4.01 ! 6 2.01 ! 4 0.01 ! 2 0 NO IMPACT OF TERRORISM NOT INCLUDED RANK.. COUNTRY SCORE 1 Iraq 9.556 30 Uganda 4.492 59 Tajikistan 2.016 2 Pakistan 9.049 31 Lebanon 4.483 60 Mexico 2.008 3 Afghanistan 8.669 32 Belarus 4.256 61 Sweden 1.755 4 India 8.147 33 Myanmar 4.088 62 Germany 1.743 5 Yemen 7.305 34 Cote D'Ivoire 3.990 63 France 1.731 6 Somalia 7.244 35 Eritrea 3.917 64 Australia 1.720 7 36 Nigeria 7.242 Senegal 3.864 65 Angola 1.696 8 37 Thailand 7.086 Ethiopia 3.732 66 Venezuela 1.620 9 38 Russia 7.068 Rwanda 3.729 66 Argentina 1.475 10 39 Philippines 6.801 Bangladesh 3.672 68 Ireland 1.456 11 40 Sudan 6.304 Morocco 3.599 69 Austria 1.408 12 41 Congo, Dem Rep. 6.182 United States 3.566 70 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.369 13 42 Colombia 6.055 Georgia 3.428 71 Zimbabwe 1.360 14 43 Syria 5.861 Mali 3.389 72 Bhutan 1.235 15 44 Algeria 5.831 Niger 3.266 73 Honduras 1.225 16 45 Sri Lanka 5.680 Spain 3.086 74 Canada 1.177 17 46 Iran 5.633 Chad 3.010 75 Switzerland 1.173 18 47 Kenya 5.266 Kazakhstan 2.804 76 Serbia 1.168 19 Turkey 5.238 48 Saudi Arabia 2.708 77 Denmark 1.129 20 Israel 5.155 49 Qatar 2.680 78 Portugal 1.129 21 Norway 5.031 50 Chile 2.636 79 Moldova 0.992 22 Nepal 5.017 51 Cameroon 2.627 80 Guyana 0.976 23 China 4.992 52 Peru 2.491 81 Azerbaijan 0.867 24 Burundi 4.899 53 Tunisia 2.358 81 Bulgaria 0.741 25 Central African Republic 4.844 54 Mauritania 2.181 83 Ecuador 0.679 26 Greece 4.597 55 Paraguay 2.174 84 Macedonia (FYR) 0.624 27 Egypt 4.576 56 Ukraine 2.163 85 Bahrain 0.616 28 United Kingdom 4.509 57 Italy 2.066 86 Jordan 0.585 29 Indonesia 4.505 58 Netherlands 2.037 87 Uzbekistan 0.585 4 01 INTRODUCTION RANK.. COUNTRY SCORE 88 Czech Republic 0.522 =116 Botswana 0 =116 Oman 0 89 Madagascar 0.435 Brazil 0 Panama 0 90 Bolivia 0.415 Burkina Faso 0 Poland 0 91 Malaysia 0.415 Congo, Republic Of 0 Romania 0 92 Kyrgyzstan 0.395 Costa Rica 0 Sierra Leone 0 93 Libya 0.346 Croatia 0 Singapore 0 94 Hungary 0.277 Cuba 0 Slovakia 0 95 Equatorial Guinea 0.217 Djibouti 0 Slovenia 0 95 Mozambique 0.203 Dominican Republic 0 South Korea 0 97 Armenia 0.188 El Salvador 0 Taiwan 0 98 Estonia 0.158 Gabon 0 Trinidad and Tobago 0 99 Guinea-Bissau 0.158 Gambia 0 Turkmenistan 0 99 Kuwait 0.158 Ghana 0 Uruguay 0 101 Albania 0.119 Guatemala 0 Vietnam 0 102 Cambodia 0.119 Guinea 0 Zambia 0 103 Tanzania 0.119 Iceland 0 104 New Zealand 0.079 Jamaica 0 105 United Arab Emirates 0.079 Laos 0 106 Haiti 0.074 Latvia 0 107 Belgium 0.069 Liberia 0 108 Finland 0.069 Lithuania 0 109 Japan 0.059 Malawi 0 110 Swaziland 0.059 Mauritius 0 111 South Africa 0.054 Mongolia 0 111 Cyprus 0.049 Montenegro 0 113 Lesotho 0.040 Namibia 0 114 Benin 0.030 Nicaragua 0 115 Papua New Guinea 0.010 North Korea 0 4 5 01 INTRODUCTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX (GTI) IS A further increasing waves of terrorism in Afghanistan and then in COMPREHENSIVE BODY OF WORK WHICH India and Pakistan eighteen months later. Iraq and Afghanistan SYSTEMATICALLY RANKS THE NATIONS OF THE accounted for 35% of the global total number of terrorist WORLD ACCORDING TO THEIR TERRORIST ACTIVITY. incidents from 2002 to 2011. The index combines a number of factors associated with Besides Iraq, three other countries, Pakistan, India, and terrorist attacks to build a thorough picture of the impact of Afghanistan influenced the steep increase in terrorism from terrorism over a 10-year period, illustrating trends, and providing 2002 to 2009, accounting for 12%, 11% and 10% of global a useful data series for further analysis by researchers and terrorist incidents, respectively. Thailand, the Philippines, and policymakers. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Russia also accounted for a notable portion of the global total Peace (IEP), the GTI is based on data from the Global Terrorism of terrorist incidents at 5%, 4%, and 4% respectively. Database (GTD) which is collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to In terms of the execution of terrorism, most attacks are Terrorism (START). The GTD is considered to be the most successful. Success rates vary from 89% to 97% depending 1 comprehensive dataset on terrorist activity and has codified on the year of measurement. In 2011 the rate was 91% .This over 104,000 cases of terrorism. indicates the continued importance of intelligence gathering services with the aim of preemptively disrupting the terrorist This report summarizes changing trends in terrorism over cells prior to them becoming operational. time, as well as analyzing its different dimensions in terms of geographic activity, methods of attack, organizations involved, For those groups that are committed to terrorism, the number and its national context in terms of economic development and of fatalities compared to the losses of their own members governance. The index has also been compared to other socio- highlights the efficacy of their methods. In 2011, 92% of fatalities economic indicators to determine what factors are commonly were non-terrorist victims with just 8% of total fatalities being associated with terrorism. terrorists. Of all those injured, 99% were victims and 1% terrorists. The definition of what constitutes a terrorist attack is “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a Al Qa’ida is one of the most notorious terrorist organisations, non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or its name is synonymous with terrorism. However, today Al social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation”. This Qa’ida is much weakened and was responsible for only one definition excludes perceived acts of state terror, such as drone of the 5,000 terrorist attacks that were carried out in 2011. attacks resulting in civilian casualties. As the vast literature on START Executive Director Bill Braniff’s contribution, presented terrorism shows, there are many competing definitions, but in section three of this report, describes the rise and fall of the for consistency this report adopts the GTD definition which is organisation, highlighting its evolution. elaborated in more detail in the next section of this report. Perhaps one of the more surprising findings is that out of the The data shows the global impact of terrorism has increased 158 countries covered in the GTI, only 31 did not experience significantly from 2002 to 2011, peaking in 2007 and then a terrorist incident over the ten year period.
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