Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region of Africa, where to marginalized indigenous groups the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. The result is a far-reaching and important book which critically examines a state terror manifested in the violation of human rights, democracy, justice and freedom.

People who live in the countries of the Horn of Africa have faced pervasive and perpetual crisis for a long time: a crisis accentuated throughout the 1990s. This collection of essays examines different aspects of the crisis, addressing the acute conditions under which people live their lives. To marginalized indigenous groups, the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. Contemporary social life in the Horn region is generally a state-orchestrted experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. The essays in this collection examine the important aspects of the social experience of this terror, a state terror often manifested in the violation of human rights, democracy, justice and freedom.

This volume presents critical perspectives on the lives of people struggling for self-determination, equality, and freedom. Under what conditions are deviant or violent actions perceived or labeled as terrorism as opposed to war, revolution, or protest? In this volume, leading international scholars on terrorism provide thoughtful, comprehensive responses and innovative ideas in analyzing terrorism in the twenty-first century.