ABSTRACT
Terrorism has always existed in history and has taken different forms: anarchist attacks, political attacks, or attacks by colonial states, such as the terrible Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which took place on April 13, 1919 in Amritsar, Punjab, when a crowd of non-violent protesters were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army. This chapter focuses on the behavior of populations facing new forms of terrorism, such as the attacks perpetrated by sects, groups or “lone wolves” that are becoming more prevalent. It proposes an extension of the Panic-Control-Reflex model in order to take into account the influence of spatial configuration in the mathematical modeling of the dynamics of human reactions in the face of traumatic situations, such as terrorist attacks. The fixed-point research allows to identify the the system tends during the transitional period. This equilibrium point highlights the primordial role of the size of both nodes 2 and 3 in the context of evacuation dynamics.
