The transformation of the very content of the concept of security, whose formulation was based on the analysis of safety risks and forms of threats to security of the people, property and the state as a whole, began internationally after the end of the Cold War. The concept of security is becoming increasingly separated from the concept of military defense as an answer to aggression, while taking on the dominant characteristic of defense from all other forms of security threats. One of those forms of security threats, not only on a global, but on a national level as well, is known as terrorism.
Terrorism, although not having an universal, generally accepted definition, implies the use of violence or threat of using violence on civilian population, by a non-sovereign subject, aimed at the state, or several states, with the aim of achieving a political goal. Activities identified directly or indirectly as being terrorism are, at the dawn of the 21st century, threatening the security of more than half of all world nations. The most generalized classification of terrorist acts, regarding the use of force, defines two categories: non-violent and violent acts. This classification should be regarded broadly, since the two types of acts are intermingled on every level of the organizer