Explosive Incident Assessment

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1 Explain how efficiency stands out in regards to terrorist achieving their goals.
Terrorist activities are usually smooth and very efficient; this is because they are well organized. One of the major reasons as to why they are so efficient is that they always claim not to be responsible for their actions; they will only accept that they are responsible once the media is aware of what is going happening. Another reason is that they are usually underground groups and their leaders do not step forward or come out publicly easily. Furthermore, some governments will often welcome the terrorists into their territories and offer them protection as long as they are well paid (Cicero, 1993). For example Algeria used terrorism activities to raise capital. Another thing that comes into play is that some of the people who are supposed to protect the people are among the terrorist groups, thus it becomes difficult to handle them as they are usually well informed of what is going to happen or is happening.
1 Why does group cohesion seem to matter within a terrorist organization?
Terrorist groups are usually formed with an objective, and its cohesion and integration plays a major role. Since terrorist groups are illegal groups, the members are supposed to agree to the terms stipulated within the specific group. Cohesion is important as it helps coordinate and organize its activities effectively. These groups pride themselves in a particular behavior and certain characteristics that only they know. It is good cohesion that enables the group to go around its businesses well without getting interferences.
2 Describe how terrorists derive their ideological assumptions.
Terrorists usually are formed to fight against something that they don`t want or lack of a satisfaction about something or simply just want to extort the government and the public at large. Basically there are seven psychological approaches that have been used in an effort to try and understand terrorists (Cicero, 1993). They include frustration aggression, trait, psychoanalytical, developmental, narcissism aggression and rational choice. Terrorist groups derive their ideas from the environment within them and the dissatisfaction that they have in a government. This is due to facts such as guilt, fear, hostility, not being manly enough, depression among others.
3 Define ‘collective rationality`.
It can easily be described as the process of making decisions within an organization collectively and giving it meaningful thought. This helps in yielding principles that are concerned with giving solutions that have equilibrium.
4 How does the terrorist tendency to become impatient determine various actions
More often than not terrorists will become impatient with the progress of their job. For instance, if they had taken hostages and want ransom which delays in one way or another, leads to the terrorist to decide to kill or do something bad as they do not have value for human life all they care about is there well being. At times, it might make them to withdraw from the treaty as they know they might be caught (Cicero, 1993). Thus, impatient terrorists do not think straight and can do anything to drive the point home or get what they want.
1 Describe the ORM process in risk-based decisions.
Operational risk management process is a transparent and structured process that allows us takes a risk in the business when it comes to decision making. It provides managers the tool and necessary information they need in order to optimize rewards (Cicero, 1993). It involves identification of the risk, then assessing the risk, come up control decisions that you will use, implement your control decisions and lastly review and supervise your decisions as they are being implemented.
5 What is risk communication?
Risk communication is an interactive process where information of ideas and opinions are exchanged concerning a risk among the risk managers, assessors and the other parties that are involved in solving the risk.
6 List the events involved in a marine casualty
Incase of a casualty in a vessel, the person in charge is supposed to immediately report to the nearest sector office or marine inspection office of the nature of casualty, the impact it has to the environment and the people around, how people have been injured, how many are dead, rescue operations etc.
7 Define human error.
Human error can easily be described as a mistake that is made by a person and not as a result of a machine.
8 What is a root cause?
This is the initial cause of a fundamental chain that leads to an effect or outcome that could be interesting or bad.
2 List the six basic assessment parts of the military/government model
The military/government has an assessment part that is based on the following:
* Cultural savvy
* Literacy and fluency
* The expertise and competency of an individual
* Intelligence
* awareness and,
* Understanding.
9 Identify the three basic sources of the military model project.
10 Define a vulnerability assessment
Is the process by where the identification, quantification and prioritization of the possible risks within a system.
What is the government terminology for dealing with bad events?
The government as a whole does not tolerate bad governance that would lead to shaming of its country (Cicero, 1993). Due to this fact, many governments try as m...