The problem of Global Terrorism: causes and remedies | UPSC Mains 2018 UPESS

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Anecdote

A market blast is local. The money, a video, a border are not. Global terrorism is a system. Causes are not ‘a religion’ as a cartoon. Remedies are not only a speech after a wreath. Terror is a method that hunts a crowd and a camera. Causes are real; remedies that only shout are another theatre.

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One stand

Causes: a grievance, a state sponsor, a digital, a cash. Remedies: UN, a FATF cousin, a community policing, a deradicalisation that is not a torture. Keep India (a neighbourhood, a city).

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What the line is asking

Problem: organised political violence against civilians, often transnational.
Causes and remedies: two halves; do not skip causes.

Causes

Occupation stories, a youth without a job, a encrypted pipe, a hawala.

Remedies

Police that can investigate. A court that convicts. A neighbourhood that is not collectively punished.

The counter

A shortcut that smashes a whole community is a recruitment poster. War language that erases a political file fails. Rights are part of the remedy.

Method, money, a law

Humiliation, a war next door, a tape — causes without a conspiracy cartoon.
Cut finance, a fake passport, a radical classroom.
Police that can investigate; a court that can convict; a speech that does not elect a riot.
The Constitution is the remedy that survives the week.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

UN / FATF Cooperation and a finance file.
UAPA / NIA Indian law — peg, do not dump.
Art. 21 / 22 Remedy that still has a person.
Neighbourhood A border as a cause-file, not a rant.
Education / job A slow remedy — one line, not a scheme list.

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Last paragraph

Global terrorism is a method: fear as a message, a body as a poster, money as a quiet rail. Causes include a humiliation, a war that leaks, a classroom that sells purity. They do not include a cartoon of a whole faith or a whole poor. Remedies that only shout produce another theatre. Cut the money, the fake paper, the unaccountable gun. Keep a police that can investigate and a court that can convict without a spectacle. A republic’s first remedy is still the Constitution — equal protection, not a revenge syllabus. Close by cutting the wallet and keeping the law. That is how a crowd becomes a public again.

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