What's the Alti Alternative to the War on Terror?

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Every country is dealing with the difficulty, the tensions between protecting societies and a protecting civil rights. The question to the yosid was what do you do to empower civil society? What's the alti alternative to te war on terror? How would you have done it? Well, civil society is actually doing more than governments, in my view, at the moment, to make the developing world a better place,. village by village, town by town, region by region. They don't need be told what to do by governments. they don't need to be impared in what they have the will to achieve in the less advantage areas of the world.

Have the West’s efforts to eradicate Al-Qaeda around the world simply been fuelling the flames of hatred and violence? Or would we have suffered even more atrocities if we’d left the militants to plot in their hiding places? Is the US right to be pursuing its hard line against militants in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen? These are just some of the questions explored in this Intelligence Squared debate from September 2011, which saw former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy defend the motion. Opposing the motion were former French foreign minister and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Bernard Kouchner and former UK Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York Sir Jeremy Greenstock. The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi.

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