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The war against terrorism is terrorism.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.