Abstract
: This paper aims to debunk the spectre of terrorism through
social capital. At the advent of the twenty-first century, the menace of
terrorism becomes a global phenomenon. Undeniably, terrorism is an evil.
The central thesis of social capital theory holds that social relationships
matter. There are three central elements of terrorism: politics, terror and
ideology. Terrorists plan political strategies using certain kind of ideology to
create terror. To deal with all these three elements of terrorism, social
capital can be an effective weapon. For explicating the core contours of
social capital theory, I draw on Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman and Robert
Putnam. To deal with political, violent and ideological foundations of
terrorism, I assert that social capital can be useful for countering all of these
foundations. Putnam’s binding and bonding strands of social capital can
potentially empower people to develop a social network between people,
institutions and states to debunk political, violent and ideological roles of
terrorism. Thus, a social capital of intellectuals can repudiate the ideological
foundations of terrorism for bringing about global peace.
Saad Malook. (2018) DEBUNKING THE SPECTRE OF TERRORISM: A SOCIAL CAPITAL APPROACH, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38, Issue 1.
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