ABSTRACT
Since 1979, the Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts have claimed thousands of attacks worldwide targeting property, yet remained relatively impervious to infiltration, disruption and arrest. Since the disclosure of the State's targeted surveillance and prosecution of these movements – labelled the "Green Scare" by activists – a matrix of juridical, legalistic and political mechanisms has criminalised forms of political dissent. In order to apply an emergent method of conflict analysis to the subject of the violent non-State actor, the Insight approach is utilised to examine how counterterrorism strategy serves as an articulation of the State's epistemological framework. Though examining the State as an entity capable of synthesising experiences and generating a perceived "threat", one can examine a resulting juridical "defense". Utilising the Insight approach to conflict mediation as developed by Bernard Lonergan, Robert Fitterer, Cheryl Picard, Jamie Price and others, one can understand the State's threat perception, narrative construction and finally, policies that emanate from such a conflict understanding.
