CONTENTS

I Introduction
II Definition and Dimensions of Terrorism
III Lessons from History
IV Global Terror Infrastructure and Implications for India
V AStrategytoDeterTerrorism
Postscript 1Appendix
Bibliography

*CHAPTER I
-INTRODUCTION

1. WHAT IS TERRORISM?
Terrorism is an act of violence that target civilians to overawe a legally constituted government and the people in the pursuit of political or ideological aims. In 1992, the General Assembly’s Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, set out in its resolution 49/60, stated that terrorism includes “criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes” and that such acts “are in any circumstances unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that may be invoked to justify them.”
Ten years later, the UN Security Council, in its Resolution No. 1566 (2004), referred to terrorism as “criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a Government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”

2. WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
Human rights are universal – in other words, they belong inherently to all human beings – and are interdependent and indivisible. The full spectrum of human rights involves respect for, and protection and fulfillment of, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, as well as the right to development.

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