Terrorism and trust
Geoffrey Hosking
Trust enables us to simplify and understand complicated realities orientate ourselves in them, which we do through symbolic systems, including myth religion. Terrorism results when those systems generate extreme distrust, especially between ethnic or religious groups. Within nation-states pre-conditions of trust include normative coherence, stability, openness accountability. In international relations these are more difficult establish. But it is still possible. The process usually includes reaction a crisis, the creation good personal relationships leaders, mutual concessions, well-documented agreements with provision for verification, opportunities populations get know each other.
Critical Studies on Terrorism