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The legal act of a government formally listing an organisation as terrorist, which then makes membership, support or fundraising for that organisation a criminal offence.

Related terms

Crime-Terror Nexus
The observed overlap between organised crime and politically motivated violence, where groups on either side borrow financing methods, smuggling routes and personnel...
Deradicalisation
A programme aimed at changing a person's extremist beliefs, distinct from disengagement, which targets a person's violent behaviour without necessarily changing what...
Insurgency
An organised armed movement that seeks to seize, hold or contest control of territory and population from an existing government, often running...
State Crime
Harm that is caused, ordered or tolerated by state officials acting in their official capacity, including extrajudicial killing, torture and electoral fraud.
Terrorism
The deliberate use or threat of violence against non-combatants by a clandestine actor to spread fear and influence an audience wider than...

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