| Summary/Abstract |
Radical ideology is the driving force behind the transnational terrorism. The attack in Sri Lanka has proved that ideology can become a potent weapon to perpetrate the acts of terrorism on unsuspecting innocent civilians. The outcome of such terror attack is neither a decisive victory nor a tangible change in behaviour of the government under coercion or threat of more terror attacks. However, there is a perception in the minds of terrorists that they are committing such acts of terror as part of their duty to the religion for fulfilment of larger objective of establishment of Caliphate. In most cases, self radicalised terrorists are using every day utility technology and objects such as vehicles, locally assembled drones and even fertiliser as explosive. Battle of narrative is as important as battle with guns to defeat the idea of Jihad. This is not a war of one nation; it is a collective war of the global community. It would require kinetic and non-kinetic measures to defeat this threat.
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