EN
Countries in West Africa region are colligated not merely in compliance with the geographical logic in the strictest sense of the word. Their ancient heritage and unique national and cultural shapes of nowadays extend the classic understanding of this part of the Sahel region as a concentrated geographical aggregation. Local prerequisites for sustaining safe and predictable community environment unite whilst abstract Sahel state members as a subject and object to international relations. The purpose of the article is to investigate the local development and manifestation of standard social markers and processes (such as the political system, cultural and religious specifics, economy – including employment rate, national and ethnic neighbourhoods and connections). The author should be able to study and explore the non-static nature of terrorism as a local concept including a) the impacts it accepts and extends; b) the typical regularity in the life cycle of this antisocial phenomenon. Actors and understandings (both local and international) about the rationale, motives and objectives of terrorism in the West Africa region would be analyzed for the purposes of a paper which aims to identify whether viable individual and social opportunities exist as an alternative course and how they should be sourced and handled