Within a political system, the citizens can bring about changes both by political consciousness and political protests. Political consciousness backs them in comprehending the nature, roles and impacts of the political system and the political protest help them in virtually compelling the government or other political institutions and groups to amend their policies or their activities.

Within a democratic system political protest is the right of all the citizens. If some political groups or even the common people start sensing that their rights are being dishonored or certain policies of the government are affecting them in a negative way they have the right to come out to the streets and let their voices be heard. Nevertheless, there is no agreement on how these protests must be carried out and what kinds of actions should be executed in them. Typically in political protests the involved groups chant slogans, exhibit posters and banners and even make speech. There are some other kinds of protests as well but in short they can be divided into two main categories; nonviolent and violent.

Non-violent and peaceful protests customarily do not include any act of violence and do not harm anyone. They remain confined to slogans, posters, signs, rallies or even hunger strikes. Conversely, a violent or non-peaceful protest turns into violent acts. In such protests it can be observed that the stones are thrown, the public and private belongings are damaged, the policemen are beaten and in certain situations, there are even shootings. Such protest in most of the cases give rise to the injury to several of the participants and may even result in their death.

There are some of the protests that may be termed as non-violent, but display extreme abhorrence and repugnance for the one against whom they have been organized. In such protests, puppets of the targeted personality or the flag of the targeted country may be burnt. Or there may be severest criticism and even abusive language in the slogans or on the placards.

Although all the protests have their impressions, the peaceful protests are thought to have constructive impressions the most. As a matter of fact, the true spirit of protest lies in such kinds of protests. The democratic system, at least in theory, backs and even encourages such protests and considers them the upshot of the mellowness and awareness of the public. Thus, it is essential that the protestors who by organizing the protests display their affection for democracy must also make sure that their protests do not become violent as they may harm many others or their belongings. In that manner their rights would be dishonored and the protestors themselves become the violator of justice.

In some of the situations the protests are deliberately turned violent. Some of the political groups or even the criminal and the terrorist groups in order to achieve their own filthy interests attempt to make the protests violent. In the countries where people do not have a long history of democratic protests and there are not many educated people, there are great chances that the protests turn violent. As people are not democratically mature, they do not have any idea when they go out of control. And when they come to their senses they have already done great damage to themselves and to the society.

The example of Afghan society can be taken in this regard. There have been many occasions when Afghan people have started with peaceful protests but have ultimately turned them into very violent ones. They turn so much violent that they start harming their own policemen. In so many other cases they have attacked the bases and offices of the foreign countries and have tried to bring loss to them. Yes, there are likelihoods that they may be protesting for something very serious.

Furthermore, it is also important to take into consideration that the protests that are carried out against other countries, should be organized very much sensibly. It is a requirement of prudent diplomacy to keep our relations strong with other countries, specifically with the neighboring countries. Unquestionably it is our right to protest against the policies of the other countries that may bring harm to us or against such policies that are not carried out formally and influence us in some way or the other; nonetheless, it is also important that in what manner we carry out our protest.

Policies designed by a government in a country are not everlasting. They keep on altering and with the changing nature of the political situations the governments keep on changing their attentions and their concerns. Hence, the pertinent policies of the relevant countries should be protested against, and that should not disregard the state as whole. It may be pretty possible that the people of that country may be very near to us regarding their culture, custom and ideology. Besides, it is also probable that the policies of the country may change for better and then we would have to change our opinion.