A/HRC/12/22 page 16 B. Conditions conducive to terrorism 43. The Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy provides a list of conditions conducive to terrorism, for instance: prolonged conflicts, occupation, subjugation, absence of democracy and rule of law, poverty, violations of human rights, ethnic, national and religious discrimination, political exclusion, socio-economic marginalization, inequality, insecurity and collective punishment. Due to their inherent link with human dignity, cultural rights are particularly important in this context. 44. Research into the conditions conducive to terrorism draws a distinction between the following four categories of causes: (a) structural causes, e.g. demographic imbalances, subjective feeling of deprivation, internal feeling of injustice; (b) facilitating causes, such as the existence of failed States, access to weapons, explosives, the development of mass media and the Internet; (c) motivational causes, including conflicts and deep-rooted historical injustices; and (d) so-called triggering causes - events that ultimately push an individual to carry out a terrorist act. Respect for human rights could be achieved by addressing all those categories effectively and jointly.44 45. The reallocation of resources towards security and counter-terrorism can have additional negative consequences when allocations are drawn away from programmes that contribute to the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, such as those in the health or education sectors. The global emphasis on counter-terrorism has accelerated a trend among donor countries and agencies towards incorporating security concerns into development policies. The policies of some States of funding security activities with official development assistance has created some controversy among development groups and civil society, which argue that they can have a negative impact on available assistance, and thus the capacity of countries to realize economic, social and cultural rights. 46. Identifying the conditions conducive to terrorism could help in formulating the measures to counter them, without creating adverse effects on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. The conditions will depend on whether the movements carrying out acts of terrorism are national movements, ethnic identity movements, minority religious movements or insurgency movements. Examples of human rights violations in these contexts include the denial of access to productive resources (including land), lack of recognition of cultural rights, which are depriving entire groups of their identity and dignity, destruction of their homes and property, lack of access to justice, impunity for human rights violations, and criminalization of the activities of human rights defenders and others who seek to express their needs within a democratic space. 44 Tore Bjorgo, Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward (New York, Routledge, 2005), p. 3.