Paper Info
Title
Are We Really That Close Together? Tracing and Discussing Similarities and Differences between Greek Terrorist Groups Using Cluster Analysis
Abstract
This paper discusses the similarities and differences in both ideology expressed and practices employed by two terrorist groups that operated in Greece between the years of 1975 and 2017: Revolutionary Organization 17 November and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei. Within this line of thought, we will briefly provide an outline of the political and ideological framework of the groups on focus in an effort to place them within the general historical and political context. We will then focus on the justification and deployment of the terrorist operations as presented in the communiqués published, as well as other announcements and notes distributed in the Social Media by the members of those two terrorist groups. In this context, we elaborate on the tactics of the terrorist groups: their targets, the weapons used and the consequences suffered as a result of their actions are analyzed, in order to evaluate their ideological and - perhaps - ethical standing. To analyze the communiqués of both organizations, two different text mining clustering techniques were applied and the outcomes enabled us to run a comparison between the two terrorist groups and also to examine the possibility of related means, ideology and people behind their different name.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EISIC.2017.33
2017 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Greek terrorism,tactics,targets,ideology,clustering analysis
Political science,Software deployment,Social media,Public relations,Terrorism,Ideology,Cluster analysis,Politics,Tracing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2572-3723
978-1-5386-2386-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ioanna K. Lekea100.34
Panagiotis Karampelas23415.16