Truth bombs: eight alternatives to airstrikes on Isis | World news | The Guardian
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But resilience, as some of the more perceptive policymakers realised, meant something deeper: the ability of those who are subject to attack to collectively resist the power of the violence to cause irrational fear. That is, after all, what terrorism sets out to do: prompt anxiety that is disproportionate to the actual risk run by an individual in their daily lives in order to change their behaviour. As that anxiety contaminates an entire society, it creates new circumstances that make the terrorists’ goals easier to reach.