Terrorism has been practiced throughout history and throughout the world. In democratic countries, the people can express their view without any fear. “The genuine grievances are not looked into, the people have other democratic and non-violent means available to them to focus attention of the government. However in recent years some people have started resorting to terrorism to press their demands often it is the innocent and the helpless who are victims.

Terrorism is a world wide phenomena and there is no internationally accepted definition of it. Broadly it is defined as an organized system of intimidation and violence especially for political purpose. Political frustration, religious, and racial fanaticism and economic backwardness are the main causes at terrorism. External powers encourage terrorism in order to create instability in certain regions. Terrorists are extremists who believe in the cult of violence. They indulge in hijacking, kidnapping, shooting, arson, etc.

There is a vast difference between violence in a democratic society, where venues of peaceful protest as also political change through electoral processes exist, and an authoritarian-dictatorial society where the people have no choice but to overthrow the political regime through use of weapons. But even in the latter society, violence takes the form of mass upsurge or armed struggle based on massive political support and mobilization. Terrorism at a serious and dangerous level arises in a democratic society when an organized group is convinced of its own political righteousness and yet finds itself unable to acquire political power democratically because it is unable to persuade the majority to back it either in terms of mass mobilization.

It is only by improving social, economic and political conditions and by fostering the forces of democracy and secularism, peace and stability that the battle against violence.