Terrorism: The Banality of a Global Evil

ABSTRACT

The ubiquity of contemporary terrorism defines the evilness of banality. A typical terrorist profile does not exist; it's atypical character of this vile phenomenon that chills human rationality. This article briefly unravels the dynamics of terror and its implications. Un-separated terrorism and counter-terrorism destroy the climate for civil transformation. Our counterproductive interventions retard progress and breed neo-imperial atavism. This is modernity's self-created Catch 22. Banality of terror calls for a paradigmatic analysis of institutional behaviors and their transformations.