It is often said that there is no greater loss of freedom than the insecurity caused by fear. The effects of terrorism and the latest attacks suffered are not only on the victims themselves, since the emotional and psychological impact associated with the shadow of fear affects everyone.
Terrorism has invaded our societies in the flesh. News victims no longer live in Middle Eastern countries, where suffering is sometimes?Selfishly normalized in the eyes of the Western world. Today, we further personalize anxiety because these faces and lives remind us of ours.
- Terrorism is essentially the most absolute failure of human beings.
- It is the germ of hatred.
- Misunderstanding and evil that.
- In turn.
- Is capable of dividing nations and societies.
Terrorism is an emerging and global threat that affects everyone and also has specific effects, such as a significant lack of security, fear of future attacks and its unpredictability, fear and often mistrust in our institutions. with new emotional and psychological demands that we will have to face.
We invite you to think about the effects of terrorism
It is often said that after the 9/11 attack the world was never the same again, so many people dare to classify our societies in crisis as gears based almost exclusively on the shadow of fear. have become more rigid, power structures have been strengthened and all work with a specific purpose: security.
We must take into account that security is fundamentally the absence of fear, in addition to a right enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, which specifies that every person must and deserves to be defended, safe and protected in his physical form. mental integrity. When this does not happen, we lose our sense of control and see our social and personal development limited.
According to a study carried out at the International University of Valencia, two phenomena explain the functioning of the effects of terrorism:
Almost without realizing it, there’s a domino effect. We were surprised by the attacks. And then, the TV shows, social media and conversations we have on a daily basis increase that sense of vulnerability, to the point that it limits our way of life or behaviors: do we stop traveling, do we suspect certain cultural groups?
An interesting article published in the journal? Psychology Today ?, declares that terrorism will have won in our societies when people start taking four specific actions:
In an article published in the Journal of Social Studies, psychologist Ordo-ez Daaz argues that attacks have the primary objective of provoking a psychological effect of high social impact, as well as exercising a kind of power linked to fear and insecurity.
The means or means of ending such disasters may not be in our hands. The political complexity and dark secrets that evolve in the scenarios of geostrategy, politics and weaponry make us more regarded as puppets than as major actors. .
However, to face vulnerability or anxiety we must avoid being a prisoner of fear, things as fundamental as allowing us to lead a normal life, connecting and respecting ourselves and entoling the values that ennoble the human being can help us to remain calm. balance and balance.
Therefore, and to end with a good reflection, let us remember the philosopher Fernando Savater, “the most important thing intellectually is not so much to understand the motivations of the terrorists, but our own reasons to resist them without using the same weapons”.