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Does democracy lead to peaceful and harmonious life among citizens? It will be a fair expectation that

democracy should produce a harmonious social life. Democracies accommodate various social divisions.

Belgium has successfully negotiated differences among ethnic populations. 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 social differences. Ability to handle social differences, divisions and

conflicts is thus a definite plus point of democratic regimes. But the example of Sri Lanka reminds us

that a democracy must fulfil two conditions in order to achieve this outcome: It is necessary to

understand that democracy is not simply rule by majority opinion. The majority always needs to work

with the minority so that governments function to represent the general view. Majority and minority

opinions are not permanent. It is also necessary that rule by majority does not become rule by

majority community in terms of religion or race or linguistic group, etc. Rule by majority means that in

case of every decision or in case of every election, different persons and groups may and can form the

majority​

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