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Theory

The purpose of the use of criminal violence by an offensive trauma manager (OTM) and also referenced herein as terrorist organization is to attack the individual and systemic human ontology of its adversary. That strategic application of contrived traumatic events are contrived to decimate or otherwise over time destroy the targets’ individual and collective identities, which is an element of that ontology. Achieving that goal results in the targeted polity’s operational management and other decision making capacities’ through reduction of will of the attacked system to defend itself. Restoration of such identities strengthens will and renders the OTM’s method moot and eventually obsolete.

Rendering that restoration of individual and collective identity and will requires understanding and responding properly to three predominate stratifications of SHOM theory pertaining to perpetrator application of criminal violence to targeted communities.

1.     Terror perpetrator organizations create a systemically installed pathological bond between themselves and their targets – survivors which when addressed properly can reverse the depreciating psychopathology and turning the intended destruction back upon the perpetrator (the terrorist organization’s management, not just upon the immediate or direct killers, who may already be dead).

2.     Psychological trauma caused by criminal violence creates individual and systemic (meaning collectively experienced and behaviorally manifested) natural survival responses from targets that present in two and apparently contradicting manifestations. That is, the surviving targeted individual and system will simultaneously attempt to

a.      reconcile the internally retained trauma and

b.     Maintain the trauma intact.

That conflict presents individually and systemically behaviorally as attempts to help one’s self and at the same time support the perpetrator against themselves - the Survivors; the latter is the primary feature of offensive trauma management upon which perpetrators rely for the success of their strategic use of criminal violence – terror. Where that apparent paradox presents, it can be exploited with the proper tools to support the constructive element of the response to help the individual self and system and to preclude the destructive response that supports the perpetrator.

3.     Certain cultural (exogenous) variables incorporated as helping methods will support destructive manifestations against constructive ones. Cordoning off those interfering variables during application of the management response facilitates both

a.     reconciliation of the terrorism-caused trauma for the surviving individuals and system and

b.     emphatic as in unencumbered by trauma address of the perpetrator.

 

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Jesse W. Collins II
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