The video seems to have been filmed in Syria or Iraq at some point prior to the shootings, and also shows the perpetrators taking part in beheadings and training in Isis territories.
From a security perspective, the main question is whether the perpetrators form part of an independent terrorist cell, a group connected to a wider network or directly or indirectly linked to ISIS.
Allen makes his case for "global war" in the following manner, "We're talking about a massive, worldwide pattern of violence and oppression directed against a specific group of people, often explicitly understood by its perpetrators as part of a broader cultural and spiritual struggle".
In the three of our categories of cases the perpetrator typically acts alone; in two (robbery and group assault), the perpetrator is part of a group.
While the war crimes unit in Belgrade has successfully prosecuted some of the perpetrators, other parts of the government have been frustrated – which is hardly surprising, given that some of the bodies had been hidden in a police barracks.
Participation is probably less likely if the perpetrator is part of the family.
The alleged perpetrators, meanwhile, were part of the wider police family and needed careful treatment.
The scale and nature of the crimes in Cologne, coupled with police descriptions of the perpetrators as being part of a large crowd of drunken men of "Arab or north African" origin, has fanned the debate about Germany's approach to migration.
Evidence of an expansion in the global trafficking of human beings – which generates an estimated $7 billion to $10 billion a year globally for its perpetrators – into this part of the world is already emerging.
Adolescents must be seen not simply as victims or perpetrators but as part of a solution that draws upon the strengths of the past, redresses the injustices of the present and offers accountability for the future.
"For some victims, this is important, while others won't be interested, and it's certainly not a prerequisite to have forgiven the perpetrator to take part in RJ.
