Abstract
By reviewing the existing literature and scholarly work present on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the role of democracy as an institution and norm playing the role to thwart and eventually eradicate these tendencies from society is complex and contradictory. One the hand, there are scholars and academics who ‘based on their qualitative and quantitative research’ claim that democracy plays pivotal role in countering extremism and extremist tendencies in the society. They claim that the rights to choose one’s rulers, free press to monitor government actions, freedom of expression, the right to vote and bring political and institutional changes through peaceful ways mitigate the hardline and extra-legal activities and tendencies less attractive and less rewarding. While opponents of this claim assert that democracy cannot play critical role in eradicating and thwarting terrorism and terrorist related acts but are in fact fertile grounds for terrorism breeding. They claim that the hallmark of democracy and democratic society like respect of individual rights, free press, and freedom of expression and the ability and capacity to run organizations make democracies easy targets and breeding grounds of terrorism
Ruqia Rehman1. (2019) Literature Review of Democracy and Counter-Terrorism, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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