Assertion: terrorism | /r/HasProperty | effective
Facets:
value: in the revolutionary struggle
type: LOCATION
value: in a conflict
type: LOCATION
value: politically
type: MANNER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: for the weaker side
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in reaching their political goals
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: These movements were nationalist and revolutionary not Islamic but their view that terrorism could be effective in reaching their political goals generated the first phase of modern international terrorism.
text: Historical experience, in Nielsen’s view, tells us that terrorism on a small scale, used as the sole method of struggle in order to provoke the masses into revolutionary action, is ineffective and often counterproductive.
text: Terrorism has often been an effective tactic for the weaker side in a conflict.
text: They are justified (1) when they are politically effective weapons in the revolutionary struggle and (2) when, everything considered, there are sound reasons for believing that, by the use of that type of violence rather than no violence at all or violence of some other type, there will be less injustice, suffering and degradation in the world than would otherwise have been the case (Nielsen 1981: 446).