… the vital importance of disaggregation into specific geographical and political settings, combined with a recognition of the often long-rooted history involved in relevant conflict; the frequency with which issues of contested political legitimacy lie at the heart of eruptions of terrorism, especially when these include matters surrounding religiously inflected nationalisms in competition with one another, the mismatch between nation and state, and problems of self-determination and political boundaries; the intensifying role which the experience of day-to-day unfairness for a population plays in preparing people to engage in or to tolerate terrorist violence as a response; the sense that violence represents a strategically necessary means of achieving justified and essential goals, a psychologically rewarding method of hitting back in reaction to prior violence, and an effective way of redressing unfair imbalances currently in existence; the importance in many cases of foreign occupation of one’s territory and of friction between military enemies and one’s fellow civilians in the occupied area; the resources offered by ideological tradition and argument, as a means of explaining an emerging crisis and justifying terrorist response to it; and the interweaving of political with cultural and religious and economic experience.