Definitions of Terrorism

Ethnic separatist violence in the 1930s provoked the League of Nations, formed after World War I to encourage world stability and peace, to define terrorism for the first time, as:

All criminal acts directed against a State and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons or a group of persons or the general public.

Index: Definitions of Terrorism

1. The Many Definitions of Terrorism
2. League of Nations Convention Definition of Terrorism, 1937
3. Terrorism Defined through Multilateral Conventions
4. U.S. Department of Defense Definition of Terrorism
5. Definition of Terrorism under U.S. Law
6. FBI Definition of Terrorism
7. Definition from the Arab Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism
8. Interactive Series on Definitions of Terrorism from Christian Science Monitor