Tulsi Prajna 2000 04

SR No.: 524603
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 152
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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It is high time for the individual to change the chemistry of thought and action through Anuvrat, and work for promotion of world peace. We have to start from somewhere to overcome the hurdles coming in the way of promoting world peace.
Concept, Characteristic and Typology
Terrorism has been defined variously by authors, and international conventions, but still no universal acceptable definition has come up. Terrorism is the use or threat of violence against small numbers to put large numbers in fear; or as well put by an ancient Chinese philosopher: 'Kill one, frighten 10000". 'Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism 1937' have defined international terrorism as "criminal acts directed against a state of intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons, groups of persons or the general public."2 On the other hand in 1986 U.S. Department of State Publication uses new, broader definitions of terrorism which follows: "Terrorism is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine state agents, usually intended to influences and audience."3 The wholistic definition of terrorism may be as the attempt to achieve political, economic, or religious change by the actual or threatened use of violence against persons or property; partly at destabilizing the existing political social order, but mainly at publicizing the goals or cause espoused by the terrorist; often though not always, terrorism is aimed at provoking extreme counter-measures which will win public support for the terrorists and their cause terrorism will be perceived by its practitioners as an activity aimed at correcting grave injustices which otherwise would be allowed to stand.4
Terrorism has become a universal phenomenon in contemporary industrial society. By manipulating fear in a special way, terrorists have been able to affect political as well as social behaviour in a fashion totally disproportionate to their numbers. All violence, became unpredictable, as Hannah Arendt has reminded us. Most concepts of terrorism include at least some of the characteristics." (a) violence; (b) political motive; (c) objective to instil fear, to terrorize; (d) threat is unpredictable, no one can feel secure; (e) targets are symbolic, any representative of a 'hated' category is a legtitmate target; (f) the methods used are unusually brutal and are not constrained by the rules of war; (g) compliance with demands does not guarantee a reduction in the level of violence; (h) publicity is a part of the coercive strategy: (i) it is planned and executed in secret; (j) it is a collective act; and (k) it can involve weapons of unusual sophistication.
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