ABSTRACT
Nonterrorists actively construct the conditions that make human societies vulnerable to terrorism; any strategy for responding to terrorism that fails to take account of this fact runs serious risks of failure (Mitchell 2003). This does not mean that victims, bystanders, and other innocent groups should be blamed for contributing to the collective burden of terrorism. It simply recognizes that terrorists typically seek to exploit the mundane circumstances of everyday life, the taken-for-granted routines of individuals and institutions, the accepted practices that shape the fabric of human settlements, and the uses to which such places are put.
