On the human consequences of terrorism

Abstract

Terrorist attacks are regarded as low-probability, highly consequential events. What, exactly, are the significant effects of terrorism? This paper presents a cross-sectional depiction of the death and injury profiles for nine of the most violent terrorism tactics: six types of bombings, mass shootings, combined shootings and explosions, and intentional vehicular assaults. By constructing a composite injury and death profile for each tactic under study, terrorist incidents can be ranked in terms of the number of disability adjusted lives lost and disability adjusted life years lost. In addition, the human consequences of terrorism as a whole (on an annual basis) are placed in context relative to the global burden of disease and counterterror expenditures.

Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism

“…1 Terrorism can be inspired by religious (e.g., ISIS) or separatist (e.g., ETA) movements as well as by extremist political ideologies (e.g., Rote Armee Fraction, or neo-Nazi/white supremacist groups) (Shughart 2006). It likewise can make use of a wide range of tacticsincluding bombings, shootings, and intentional vehicular assaults-which tend to have distinctive death and injury profiles and translate into diverging numbers of disability adjusted lives (or life years) lost (Arce 2019). In this article, we study one instance of an extreme right-wing terrorist act by analyzing the causal effect of Anders Behring Breivik's attack in Norway on 22 July 2011.…”

Terrorism and child mortality

“…This is because terrorism does not produce many victims, especially in comparison to many other sources of death. For instance, Arce (2019) estimates terrorism to lie in the bottom nine percent of the global burden of disease. That is, its burden is similar to that of Dengue fever and Vitamin A deficiency (Arce, 2019, p. 390).…”

“…For instance, Arce (2019) estimates terrorism to lie in the bottom nine percent of the global burden of disease. That is, its burden is similar to that of Dengue fever and Vitamin A deficiency (Arce, 2019, p. 390). The direct impact of terrorism is also minor compared to other sources of violent death.…”

The Stock Market Effects of Islamist Versus Non-Islamist Terror

“…Terrorism has manifold effects on the economy, the polity, and the society. Of course, it causes death, physical and mental impairments (Arce 2019), and the destruction of capital and infrastructure. Even if the direct costs are small in comparison Murphy 2001, Arce 2019), indirect effects may be sizeable.…”