THE HUMAN RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT TERROR — Draft Charter

THE HUMAN RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT TERROR Draft Charter T HE Human Right to 'Live Without Terror' is without doubt an urgent need of our times. From the First World War till now, a great number of charters and declarations of this nature have been issued by different international forums, including the United Nations. But, as we know, these charters and declarations have yielded no result. Looking at this matter deeply, we find that this problem is not basically about the lack of a suitable charter, rather, it is essentially about the lack of results from the charters that we already have. We need an ideology to counter the terrorist ideology. The reason for this is that issuing a charter as a declaration of an agreement is only half the solution. The remaining part of the solution involves extensive ideological campaigning in its support. Since this task has never been effectively performed, the various charters have not yielded the desired results. Let’s take an example to illustrate this point. After the Second World War, the United States of America faced two major threats, one after another: one pertaining to communism, and the other to terrorism. As we know, America successfully solved the problem of communism, while it utterly failed to solve the problem of terrorism, even after spending trillions of dollars ostensibly for this purpose. This difference in the results in the two cases was due to the difference of strategy adopted for dealing with these two issues. America launched a strong ideological campaign to counter the threat it faced from communism. This ideological campaign proved so successful that even the communist leaders themselves lost confidence in the communist philosophy. They began to prefer a liberal economy to a socialist economy, until in 1991 the communist empire collapsed at the hands of its own people. On the other hand, in order to counter the menace of terrorism, America