End of year Individual Research Projects

INTRODUCTION
I chose the topic of terrorism, because I was interested in reading about war crimes
and terrorism of russians during the Ukrainian war, and when I saw this topic I
wondered, how do other countries suffer from terrorism and what do they do to
prevent it? And I was very interested in the research, reading all those counterterrorism
strategies, finding documents and articles from archives was very
fascinating.
I believe that my topic is important, because terrorism is an endless problem as there
are always some people that are not satisfied with power, the order of things in the
world, or simply hate people based on their ideology and religion. Even now,
everyday we can see many articles in the news about this topic. For example, the
UN has opened a new counter-terrorism office in Spain. Would the government
spend money and open offices for those demands if the terrorism wasn’t a relevant
problem (European interest, 2023)?
METHODOLOGY
In this project I researched information about the political and economic impact of
terrorism on the world and such regions as: Spain, USA and the EU,measures that
their government is taking to prevent further attacks and probable motives that
people have to commit terrorism.
Finding certain information for my topic was quite interesting, mainly because of how
controversial the topic of terrorism is. That's why I mainly chose websites of
government and trusted universities. I tried to find independent researches on the
topic of the psychology of terrorism, and for other questions I searched for official
websites. Those websites were very helpful in my question about the anti-terrorist
strategies. I used lots of keywords, but the main ones were: Terrorism, counterterrorism,
strategy, economic impact and of course lots of statistics. Mainly I used a
mixed style of research, because I was searching for both statistics and information
about my topic.