Do democracies lead to peaceful and harmonious relations among citizens?
Answer:
- Democracies usually develop a procedure to conduct their competition. This reduces the possibility of these tensions becoming explosive or violent.
- No society can fully and permanently resolve conflicts among different groups.
- But we can certainly learn to respect these differences and we can also evolve mechanisms to negotiate the differences.
- Democracy is best suited to produce this outcome.
Non-democratic regimes often turn a blind eye to or suppress internal socialdifferences. Ability to handle social differences, divisions and conflicts is, thus, a definite plus point of democratic regimes.