The report identifies three major trends in terrorism, which are believed to be evolving: Micro-actors.
The growth of micro-actors is spurred by perceived U.S. and allied successes in isolating and destroying much of al-Qaida's centralized leadership.
The report claims Iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism, and it identifies "micro-actors"–individuals or small cells unconnected to states or international terror groups as an emerging menace.
London's assessment of the plot is more consistent with the "micro-actor" theory, which has become the orthodox view among counter-terrorism analysts: –"Micro-actor" theory.
The three different observed manifestations of social capital include between key actors (micro), between a single key actor and a community (micro and macro), and the social capital within a group (macro).
At the micro level, individual actors from differing governance arrangements interact beyond what is formally required.
In other words, effective 'futuring' activities substantially contribute to strategic decision-making and constituency building at multiple levels from macro-level governance of innovation ecosystems, to meso-level value chains and networks, to micro-level innovation actors.
The article concludes with a discussion of how sociological studies of micro-settings between actors can contribute to research on conflict and wartime development, as well as how the sociological study of war can further develop by disaggregating conflict settings and tracing the social construction of wartime socio-political landscapes.
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The program describes the effect at catchment scale of choices taken at micro scale by independent actors, the farmers, by simulating their decision process.
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