School Education as a Method of Counter-Terrorism Governance: China's Perspectives and Its Legal Response

Abstract

States in the world explores ways to counter-terrorism, and finds school education is a useful method in light of counter-terrorism governance. A necessary work is to analysis the link between school education and counter-terrorism governance in the first step, with the help of knowledge on China's national education system and definitions from Counter-Terrorism Law as well as some theory-thoughts. Then it is also meaningful to discuss how current China's legal design, including but not limited to the both central and local legislation on counter-terrorism theme as well as a typical example from education legal system, offers provision support for school education. The conclusion is at present China has noticed the value of school education on counter-terrorism. And in the future with the development of counter-terrorism legal system, the school education related provisions will remain and develop accordingly, while the certain content design method is left to be discovered case by case in relevant situation.