Between paradise and prison: External secrecy and visibility in terrorist organisations

Abstract

or the terrorists, their case was a bit more complex, their goal being not an observed but an unobserved child's paradise, but because they experienced the world in which they lived as a prison where they were not only unjustly locked up but were left unattended and unobserved in one of the dungeons, they desperately sought to force themselves on the attention of their guards and thus step out of their unobserved condition into the limelight of public notice, which, however, they could achieve only by, paradoxically, drawing back into unobserved obscurity again and again, from the dungeon into the dungeon, unable, ever, to come out and be free.

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“…Lastly, politics has always been a field of paramount relevance in response to emerging societal collapses, government forms and widespread questioning of political systems’ legitimacy, which in a decisive manner affect our lives. Recently, the ISSJ has published several critically acclaimed articles on a wide range of subjects and themes, such as prisons and terrorism, group identity (Marone, 2023), political regimes (Vercesi, 2022), democracy and the health and social outcomes of human rights violations (Musabaeva et al., 2022; Sandra, 2022).…”