Terrorism is a worldwide threat that does not recognize the borders, and that affect people and states irrespective of the geographical locations. Individual as well as groups believe advancing their political aims by the use of terror and pose a serious threat to their country democratic values and the freedom and rights of the citizen mainly by targeting the innocent people (Noflsinger, Newbold & Wheeler, 2007). The acts of terrorism are unjustifiable and criminal thus must be treated as such under all the circumstances. However, there are strategies to combat terrorism activities globally and respect human rights.
The first strategy is to pursue and investigate the terrorist activities, to impede their planning, communication, and travel. By use of this strategy, it will enable to cut off the access to the funding and material thus bring terrorist to justice. Another strategy is to respond in a coordinated manner by preparation for minimization and management of the consequences of the terrorist attack and therefore, improve capacities and abilities to deal with an aftermath and taking into the account the wants of the terror victims (Mayer, Carafano & Zuckerman, 2011). Coordination and partnership will enable nations to fight and deal with terrorist both locally and globally.
Since the 9/11, the United States homeland security department has thwarted about 40 Islamist- inspired terrorist plots, however, the state administration have tried to reverse the trend of turning the homeland security funds into the pork-barrel spending. Due to the increasing federal disasters, need to empower local and state authorities to meet responsibilities for the disaster response and the domestic counter-terrorism operation mainly by promoting the intelligence-led policing. Currently, The nation has tried to press for an amnesty-first approach that is to border the immigration policy, workplace enforcement and security while undercutting the key tools such as 287 (g) programs. Also, the Congress need to streamline the oversight of Homeland Security Department from more than 100 committees and the subcommittees (Mayer, Carafano & Zuckerman, 2011). In future, the transportation security administrative will fund to promote the screening of people at the airport rather than directing the funds toward dealing with the threats before the threat reach the airport. Therefore, that is the past, current and future trend of homeland security in dealing with terror activities.
References
John B, Noflsinger, Kenneth F, Newbold & Jack K, Wheeler. (2007). Understanding Homeland Security- Policy, Perspectives, and Paradoxes. New York: Palgrave Macmillian.
Matt A Mayer, James Jay Carafano & Jessica Zuckerman. (2011, August 23). Homeland Security 4.0: Overcoming Centralization, Complacency, and Politics. Retrieved from Heritage.org: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/homeland-security-4-0-overcoming-centralization-complacency-and-politics
