Jabarkan kekerasan dari Definisi terorisme

Definisi akademis tentang Terorisme tidak dapat diselaraskan menjadi definisi yuridis. Bahkan Amerika Serikat yang memiliki banyak act yang menyebut kata terrorism atau terrorist didalamnya, sampai saat ini pun masih belum dapat memberikan standar definisi tentang Terorisme, baik secara akademis maupun yuridis. Sejauh ini, Terorisme hanya dapat dikategorikan sebagai kejahatan dalam hukum internasional bila memenuhi kriteria yang disebutkan dalam 12 konvensi multilateral yang berhubungan dengan Terorisme yaitu:

Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft (“Tokyo Convention”, 1963).

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (“Hague Convention”, 1970).

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (“Montreal Convention”, 1971).

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protecred Persons, 1973.

International Convention Against the Taking og Hostages (“Hostages Convention”, 1979).

Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (“Nuclear Materials Convention”, 1980).

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, 1988.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, 1988.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, 1988.

Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, 1991.

International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombing (1997, United Nations General Assembly Resolution).

International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, 1999.

Definisi yang dikemukakan oleh beberapa lembaga maupun penulis, antara lain: