THE CLOUD OF FEAR: PERU´S ANTI-TERROR LESSON

Across the world, people are concerned about the effectiveness and legality of the ways governments seek to "fight terrorism". In many different national contexts – the United States and Russia, Britain and Pakistan, Thailand and Uzbekistan – they are asking a critical question: can civil liberties and human rights be balanced with national security in the modern environment of a "war against terrorism"?

The way this question is answered will have far-reaching impact on democratic systems, and how the world will view democracy. A fresh way to approach it, in light of my own experience as a human-rights lawyer who has worked in Peru, might be to look at this Latin American republic's experience of coming to terms with the insurgent and state violence that disfigured it in the 1980s and 1990s.

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