However, there are numerous reasons to review the phenomenon at the present time, among them, the fact that activity designated – either legally, by policymakers or by scholars – as terrorism is undoubtedly increasing on the African continent, at a time when fine-grained and disaggregated data on the nature and location of these attacks can cast light not only on the competing operational and legal definitions, but on their implications. A review essay seeking to revisit the definitional impasse in 2001 had the modest goal of determining how to ‘at least know it when it is seen in the coming decades.’ (Cooper, 2001, p. The plethora of competing legal definitions has been likened to the Bermuda Triangle (Dedeoglu, 2003), and attempts to develop consensus around a single one, to ‘the quest for the Holy Grail’ (Levitt, 1986). The existence of multiple, contrasting and even contradictory definitions and conceptualisations of terrorism in policy, legal frameworks and academic research is well-documented.
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