RISING AGAINST TERROR: REGIONAL STRATEGIES IN ASIA AND AFRICA AMID GLOBAL THREATS

Abstract

While incidences of terrorism is a long-aged movements that had a common history with human experience, the today terrorist activities across the world has remained a significant global phenomenon. The study observed that terrorism has followed different waves over time and space that has historically manifested traced back between the 11th and 13th century to the present modern-day world. With a special reference to Asia-Africa terrorism incidences, the study  observed that terrorist activities across these regions have posed a serious problem on human population for centuries while in particular,  the activities of the modern day terrorist groups are noticeable across these regions inspiring or  interwoven with the cumulative outcome generated from the interface of political, economic, religious, ideological, social, psychological and global issues as well as emotions and other factors. The study discuses some of the noticeable extremist/terrorist groups across the Africa, Asia, Middle-East and SouthEast Asia countries particularly those that have been designated by United Nations and highlighted some of the regional counterterrorism measures mechanisms put in place to sustain the pace for peace and security of the regions. The study suggested a stiffer regional responses to counterterrorism to include the use of violence to fight and depose the terrorists and the use international regional organizations, joint-tasks and conventions to introduce more international norms in opposing terrorism in addition to the existing roles of  United States who had continually providing logistics support, intelligence training, advisors and equipment both security equipment  and  relief materials in support of the wide range stabilization efforts, such as defection, demobilization, disengagement, de-radicalization, and reintegration programming in the affected regions