Terrorism And Right-Wing Terrorism

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Terrorism is an ongoing phenomenon that has been occurring for centuries (Alvarez & Bachman, 2014). It involves several different types of behaviors that are committed for many different reasons. Those forms include assassinations, bombings, theft, hijackings, kidnappings, and a host of other violent acts. The type of terrorism that will be discussed is right-wing terrorism. Right-wing terrorism is one type of the many that is related Substates terrorism, which is perpetrated by nongovernmental groups. Right-wing terrorism is described as the acts of conservative organizations who seek to return society to some mythic or past time, or acts of conservative organizations that seek to preserve a political system (Alvarez & Bachman, 2014).

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