Question

can we defeat terrorism with non violent struggle?

Answer 1

yes we can defeat........

Answer 2

Terrorism is short lived, it eventually fades away. No matter whether you use violence, it at a point does cease, either you kill the terrorists or they die. Either you sign a pact or they surrender. The thing that really needs an action to be taken is the eradication of "the terrorist's mindsets" itself. So long as people think the same, so long as their head is occupied by malevolence, you can't stop terrorism from its propagation ! You can do non-violent struggles, may be you get lucky enough to evoke a feeling of peace in a mind or two, but you can't cut off its ideology, it persists in minds.