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illion people,

Global Patternsin Terrorism

Lecture 1029 September 2011CSCI 7000-001Inference, Models and Simulation for Complex Systems

Prof. Aaron ClausetUniversity of Colorado

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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ter•ror•ism (noun)

a violent act

by non-governmental actors

to create fear

for political purposes

“terrorism from below” vs. “terrorism from above”

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a brief history of modern terrorism

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19101880 1940 1970 2000

examples:

1881 Narodnaya Volya assassinates Tsar Alexander II

1901 Leon Czolgosz assassinates US President McKinley

1905 Terrorist Brigade operates in Switzerland and Finland

1914 Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination starts World War I

wave 1: anarchist c.1880 - c.1920

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19101880 1940 1970 2000

examples:

1928-66 Muslim Brotherhood’s Secret Apparatus in British Egypt

1931-48 Irgun fights to create Israel out of British Palestine

1955-59 EOKA fights for Cyprus’ independence from Britain

1954-62 FLN fights for Algerian independence from France

wave 1: anarchist

wave 2: anti-colonial

c.1880 - c.1920

c.1910 - c.1960

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19101880 1940 1970 2000

examples:

1964+ PLO in Palestinian territories

1970-90 “Contras” in Nicaragua

1970-93 Red Army Faction in West Germany

1980-92 Shining Path in Peru

tacit encouragement from USSR and USA

wave 1: anarchist

wave 2: anti-colonial

wave 3: revolutionary

c.1880 - c.1920

c.1910 - c.1960

c.1960 - c.2000

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19101880 1940 1970 2000

wave 1: anarchist

wave 2: anti-colonial

wave 3: revolutionary

wave 4: religiousexamples:

1976-09 Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka (Hindu)

1984-00 Aum Shinrikyo in Japan (Cult)

1987+ Hamas in Palestinian territories (Islamic)

1991+ Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda (Christian)

1994+ Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistan (Islamic)

c.1880 - c.1920

c.1910 - c.1960

c.1960 - c.2000

c.1980 - present

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19101880 1940 1970 2000

tactics targetswave 1 assassinations, dynamite, suicide missions government,

heads of business

wave 2 assassinations, firearms, guerrilla attacks government, military

wave 3 hostages, firearms, high explosives, guerrilla attacks, assassinations

mainly military, some civilians

wave 4 suicide bombs, improvised explosives, firearms, unconventional methods

mainly civilians, some military

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conventional studies of terrorism

• historical, descriptive, policy-oriented

• focused on incidence and strategy (spoiler effects, substitution, public support)

• correlations (democracies, political motivation, strategic opportunities, alliances, material support)

• mainly use aggregate measures (totals, binary variables)

• general linear model (regressions)

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thus

• theories of rational behavior, context and strategic issues (a la economics)

• severity of events typically ignored

• theories rarely mechanistic (but often psychological)

• few general “laws”

• little hope of forecasting (context, context, context)

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where is terrorism today?

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RAND-MIPT data

•40 years (1968-2008)

•domestic + international

•5000+ cities, 187 countries

•36,018 events (37% deadly)

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Deaths per million people,1998-2007

<0.1 0.1 - 11 - 10 10 - 100100 - 400

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deaths per million people, USA 2007

terrorism 0lightning 0.15bee sting 0.18airplane crash 0.23homicide 61.74car crash 124.43

sources: , US Census, MIPT, NWS, CDC, NTSB and NHTSA

*

* most recent available data, from 2006

*

--1

x1.2x1.5

x408.3x829.5

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is terrorism getting worse?

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196819721976198019841988199219962000200420081

10

100

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Dea

ths

per y

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Terrorism worldwideSmoothed dataExponential trend

is terrorism getting worse?

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1968197219761980198419881992199620002004200810 9

10 8

10 7

10 6

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rism

dea

ths

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orld

cap

ita

Terrorism worldwideSmoothed dataExponential trend

is terrorism getting worse?

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19681972197619801984198819921996200020042008

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age

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Terrorism worldwideSmoothed dataLinear trend

is terrorism getting worse?

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196819721976198019841988199219962000200420080

0.5

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3 x 10 9

Year

Aver

age

deat

hs p

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apita

Terrorism worldwideSmoothed dataLinear trend

is terrorism getting worse?

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• individual events no worse, on average

• number of fatal events increased exponentially

• odd lulls in 1992, 2006

comments

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• relatively few casualties (automobiles > terrorism)

• very infrequent

• disproportionate economic, political effects

For example: major re-organization of US/UK national security apparatus after 9.11.2001

severe events (“outlier” events)

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21 Dec. 1988: Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Scotland (270 deaths)

19 Apr. 1995: Oklahoma City bombing (168 deaths)

11 Sept. 2001: World Trade Center (2749 deaths)

12 Oct. 2002: Bali nightclub bombing (202 deaths)

26 Nov. 2008: Lashkar-e-Taiba attack in South Mumbai (173 deaths)

image credits: wikipedia, BBC news

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“normal” 92%

“severe” 8%{{

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1 10 100 1000 10000

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13,274 deadly attacks, 1968-2008

“severe” 8%

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1 10 100 1000 10000

0.01%

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13,274 deadly attacks, 1968-2008

“severe” 8%

α = −2.4

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power-law is plausible model for deaths

• no fundamental difference, big vs. small

• marks “severe event” range

• could estimate risk of future severe events (additional validation needed for this)

• can use power-law model for additional analysis

testing the power law

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how does frequency-severity distribution vary with

• time

• weapon type

• economic development

variations

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study events in each 24 month interval

variation with time

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• ave. log-severity largely stable over 40 years

• apparent periodicity in ave. log-severity at years 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004

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196819721976198019841988199219962000200420080

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deat

hs p

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apita

Terrorism worldwideSmoothed dataLinear trend

variation with time

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1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 20041.50

1.75

2.00

2.25

2.50

2.75

3.00

scal

ing

expo

nent

year

mean

• scaling exponent largely stable over 40 years

• suggests severity distribution largely stable

• main difference today: many more events

1968-2006

variation with time

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• chem/bio

• explosives

• fire/arson

• firearms

• knives

• other/unconventional

variation by weapon

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• more apparent power-law behavior

• but different ,

• not ubiquitous: no power laws by region

• explosives most deadly, overall

10 4

10 2

100

10 4

10 2

100

P(x)

100 102 10410 4

10 2

100

severity, x (total)

100 102 104

severity, x (total)

Chem/Bio Explosives

Fire

Firearms

Knives Other

!̂ x̂min

variation by weapon

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• 30 countries (USA, Japan, France, UK, Turkey...)

• tracks economic statistics and data for these 30 + 70 others

variation by economy

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1 10 100 1000 10000

0.01%

0.1%

1%

10%

100%

deaths per attack

perc

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ith g

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er s

ever

ity developed nations 5%

developing nations 95%

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x ! xmin of totalTurkey 335 26.9%France 201 16.2%Spain 109 8.8%

Germany 98 7.9%USA 93 7.5%

Greece 76 6.1%Italy 73 5.9%UK 62 5.0%total 1047 84.2%

other factors must be involved

severe events

economy alone?

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power-law pattern holds for

• different decades (70s, 80s, 90s, 00s)

• different types of weapon (guns, fire, bombs, etc.)

• different levels of economic development (OECD)

• but not for “regions” or suicide attacks

open questions

• what creates this simple and robust pattern?*

• what does this mean for long-term planning? (can we make accurate statistical forecasts?)

comments

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model 1:• competition between states and terrorists leads to

exponential sampling (a la Reeds & Hughes) [Clauset, Young & Gleditsch (2007)]

model 2:• population density fluctuations + density-

dependent targeting (a la Reed & Huges) [Clauset, Young & Gleditsch (2010)]

model 3:• self-organized critical, fission-fusion model of group

dynamics leads to power-law in cell sizes [Johnson et al. (2009), Clauset & Weigel (2010)]

generating the power law

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tuesday:

orterrorist organizations civil wars

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