PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF TERRORISTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON CIVILIANS

Živimo v svetu, v katerem se pogosto pojavljajo napadi, katere z eno besedo imenujemo terorizem. Sam pomen besede je zelo močan, saj pomeni grozo, strah. To potrjuje tudi sam cilj terorističnih napadov, ki je zastraševanje čim večje množice ljudi. Vedno pa se sprašujemo, kdo so ti ljudje, ki realizirajo te napade. V ta namen se v diplomski nalogi ukvarjamo z vprašanji, kakšen je psihološki profil teh napadalcev, teroristov in kako s temi dejanji vplivajo na civilno prebivalstvo. Sam vpliv napadov je lahko različen. Različen zato, ker se tudi ljudje oziroma nacije razlikujemo glede na način življenja, kulturo, vero in okolje v katerem živimo. Zato smo v diplomsko delo vključili primerjavo dveh različnih držav. Na eni strani imamo nacijo (Amerika), ki je v samem središču gonje proti terorizmu in na drugi strani nacijo, katere se terorizem praktično še ni dotaknil (Slovenija). Tudi psihološki profil teroristov ni tako poseben kot bi si nekateri mislili. Strokovnjaki se v večini strinjajo, da so čisto normalni ljudje, v dobrem psihofizičnem stanju. Res pa je, da so v večini pod vplivom verskih ali katerih drugih radikalnimi prepričanj. Raziskava, je bila opravljena v obliki ankete. Potekala je med prebivalci Republike Slovenije, katere smo povprašali o tem, ali se bojijo potencialnega terorizma pri nas. Zanimivo je, da je strah prisoten pri skoraj polovici vprašanih. V primerjavi z Združenimi državami Amerike, kjer je odstotek ljudi, ki se bojijo terorizma višji (81 %). Ta razlika je sicer občutna, vendar ni toliko različna, kot bi si mislili.We are living in a world were accurance of attacks, which we name terrorism, is frequent. The meaning of the word terrorism is powerfull by itself, it means terror, fear. This is further confirmed by the goal of terrorist attacks, to intimidate wider population. We are always asking our selves, who are people behind the execution of attacks. To answer, in this diploma we are dealing with questions such as: "What is psyholocigal profile of the attackers, and how they affect people with these actions?" The influence of the attacks can be different. Different beacause both people and nations are different in culture, lifestyle, religion and habitat we live in. That is whay we have, in this work, incorporated comparison of two different countries. On one side we have a nation (USA), that is in very center of campaign against terrorism and on the other side a nation, that practically was not yet touched by the terrorism (Slovenia). Psyhological profile of the terrorist showed to be not as special as one might tought. Experts are more or less agreed on the fact that they are completly normal people in good psyho-physical condition. But it is true, that they are mostly under the infulence of religius or other radical beliefs. Reaserch was conducted in form of survey. It was made among the residents of Republic of Slovenia, which were asked if they are afraid of potential terroism in Slovenia. Intrestingly enaugh, fear is present in almost half of the sample. In comparison with USA, where percentage of people afraid of terrorism is higher (81%). The diffrence is of course significant, but not as high as we may thought