By David Watts
Sep 2009
Some leading luminaries express their views at a London seminar on democracy and rule of law being the correct approach to address the grievances of aggrieved communities who take to violence... or is an authoritarian regime better placed at tackling terrorism?
Baroness Nicholson is all smiles as she spells her views
Professor Lord Desai opened the recent forum examining the question of whether democracy and the rule of law were the best methods of fighting terrorism by declaring that they were the only way that the threat of terrorism could be countered.
With his direct and incisive style the noble lord made it clear that he was somewhat surprised that the question should be asked. He addressed an audience of fellow academics, members of the Indo-British Friendship Forum and interested parties in a House of Lords committee room in London under the sponsorship of Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne.
Other speakers included Dr Annabelle Lever, Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics; Judge Robert Henry, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Foulath Hadid, St Antony's College, Oxford and Dr Mamoun Fandy, Senior Fellow for Gulf Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies.
http://newageislam.com/combating-terrorism--is-democracy-the-answer?-/war-on-terror/d/1801
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