Terrorism as a form of special war

In recent decades terrorism has grown from an acute to a chronic problem which the entire international community is faced with. Seemingly sporadic and uneven attempts to intimidate citizens and their legitimate political representatives have 'overnight' become a tool for conducting a particular kind of war, i.e. a special warfare. Consequently, it is necessary terrorism to be considered as a global phenomenon and threat that, due to its continuous operation, acquires all the characteristics of a guerrilla warfare. The variety of forms in which acts of terrorism are manifested and a number of terrorist organizations contribute to a difficult way of keeping fighting for their suppression or at least bringing them at the 'tolerable' level. In regard to all these facts, it is necessary to direct future activities in the direction of a general resistance to all forms of terrorism, which many countries, led by the international community, really do. It is obvious that there is a large number of definitions of terrorism and terrorist organizations, depending on the point of view from which this planetary phenomenon and global evil is observed. It is necessary to point out the usage of different criteria, ranging from security, politicological, criminal law, criminological, sociological and the other ones, by which the phenomenon of terrorism is treated and conceptually determined. Taking into account the specificities of a different treatment of terrorism, the authors decided, by using all available resources, to highlight all the negative effects which this planetary phenomenon makes the human society, either through conducting a special war or through its particular form.