Noticed while browsing the ever insightful Kevin Drum: The graph, from the Human Security Report 2007 shows that as terrorist incidents have risen in Pakistan, opposition to terrorism has also risen. The report goes onto suggest that ‘terror campaigns that lose public support will eventually be abandoned, even if the terrorists themselves remain undefeated.’ This is something government’s understand but their actions suggest otherwise. The idea that without public support terrorism will fail is, I think, the principle reason for why the UK Government has switched a good chunk of its resources to the Prevent strand of CONTEST.
