Although the security situation has improved considerably since the Arusha peace accords, violent incidents still occur between security forces and armed groups, particularly in the border region with the DRC and around bujumbura, the capital. Despite the changing and controversial meaning of “terrorism” over time, the particular semantic strength of the term, beyond its literal meaning, is its ability to stigmatize, delegitimize, denigrate and dehumanize those against whom it is targeted, including political opponents. The term is ideologically and politically charged; pejorative; involves moral, social and value judgments; and is “slippery and much abused”. In the absence of a definition of terrorism, the struggle for the depiction of an act of violence is a struggle for its legitimacy. The more confusing a concept is, the more suitable it is for opportunistic appropriation. [27] The United States The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) defines terrorism in the same way as United States Code 22 USC § 2656f(d)(2). The Centre also defines a terrorist act as “intentional; were committed by a sub-national or secret agent; political motivations, possibly including symbolic religious, philosophical or cultural motivations; violent; and against a target that does not fight. [64] The idea of the agreement was to get both sides to cooperate in a group called the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Assembly would take certain decisions taken previously by the British Government in London. Terrorism is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that aims to provoke terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminately) through violent victimization and the destruction of unconcluded goals (sometimes iconic symbols). Such acts are supposed to send a message from a clandestine clandestine organization.

The aim of terrorism is to use the media to reach a maximum audience as a force multiplier, in order to influence the target group(s), achieve the desired short- and medium-term political objectives and/or long-term final states. [85] Terrorism is an anxious method of repeated acts of violence used by isolated (semi-) secret actors, group or state for particular criminal or political reasons, with the direct targets of violence not being the main targets, unlike attacks. Immediate human victims of violence are usually randomly selected (opportunity targets) or selective (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population and serve as message generators. [81] Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly clear that, among other elements, it is above all the insignificant implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by all parties that is becoming the source of the violent clashes. . . .