Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi

International Terrorism and Conflict Management in the Middle-East

Franc Ter Abagen, PhD & Stephen Kator Atsaga

Abstract

The study investigated the ISIS International Terrorism and Conflict Management in the Middle-East. The study is a documentary research and data were analyzed through qualitative method and used strategic theory to explain the issue understudy. The ISIS inspired terrorist attacks in the Middle Eastern states and beyond and the attendant carnage have assumed a deadlier dimension, with obvious implications for humanitarian causalities, especially the USA citizens, her allies and her places of interest across the globe. The counter-terrorism strategies deployed by the U.S government and others to combat the ISIS menace and mitigate the attendant humanitarian causalities succeeded in reducing the activities of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and beyond, but the terrorist group has not been effectively eradicated. Consequent upon the adverse imperialistic foreign policy of the U.S as a major cause of ISIS terrorist activities in the Middle East, this study recommends that the United States of America jettisons her provocative imperialistic foreign policy actions and resort to an overhauled foreign policy grounded on the principle of egalitarianism, justice, equity and fair- play as well as welfare (not warfare). This shall engender a genuine global peaceful co-existence and socio-economic cum political development, devoid of subjugation of man by man and nation by nation. With respect to the defect in the global coalition against ISIS, the study urges the members of the global coalition against ISIS to deploy ground troops in addition to the aerial bombardment strategy to Syria to fight ISIS since the crucial follow-up on the ground was left in the hands of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which has been regularly accused of having ties with extremist groups such as ISIS.

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