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Terrorism

UN and Related Bodies

• UN Action to Counter Terrorism
• UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
• Terrorism Prevention and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• The UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) — guided by Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) and resolution 1624 (2005), the Committee works to bolster the ability of United Nations Member States to prevent terrorist acts both within their borders and across regions.
• The 1540 Committee — Expert Committee established under Security Council resolution 1540 (2004), which obliges States to refrain from supporting by any means non-State actors from developing, acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their delivery systems.
• The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee — Committee established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1267 (1999), on the application of sanctions to designated individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden and/or the Taliban wherever they may be located.
• UNODC’s Frequently Asked Questions on International Law Aspects of Countering Terrorism

• Security Council documents — including resolutions, presidential statements, press statements, resolutions, country reports and press briefings — relating to terrorism.
• The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy:  General Assembly resolution 60/288 of 8 September 2006
• Background on the General Assembly’s Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism (1994) and Declaration to Supplement the 1994 Declaration (1996)
• General Assembly resolutions relating to terrorism
• United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), established by the Secretary-General in July 2005 to ensure overall coordination and coherence in the counter-terrorism efforts of the United Nations system.
• CTITF Working Groups on …
  • Preventing and Resolving Conflict
  • Supporting and Highlighting Victims of Terrorism
  • Preventing and Responding to WMD Attacks
  • Tackling the Financing of Terrorism
  • Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes
  • Strengthening the Protection of Vulnerable Targets
  • Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism
  • Border Management Relating to Counter-Terrorism
• Combating Nuclear Terrorism — Action Plan of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• INTERPOL …
  • Public Safety and Terrorism
  • Its Fusion Task Force
  • Bioterrorism
  • Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (Project Geiger)
  • Firearms and Explosives (the “Orange Notice”)
  • INTERPOL Resolutions on Terrorism
• Promoting and protecting human rights while countering terrorism (Human rights Special Rapporteur).
• The 16 International Anti-Terrorism Legal Instruments (Overview)

• The Conventions:
• Aircraft Convention — Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft (Tokyo, 1963)
• Unlawful Seizure Convention — Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (The Hague, 1970)
• Civil Aviation Convention —  Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Montreal, 1971)
• Diplomatic Agents Convention — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (New York, 1973)
• Hostage Taking Convention — International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages (New York, 1979)
• Nuclear Material Convention — Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (Vienna, 1979)
• Amendments to the Nuclear Material Convention — Amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (Vienna, 2005)
• Airport Protocol — Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Montreal, 1988)
• Maritime Convention — Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (Rome, 1988)
• Protocol to the Maritime Convention — criminalizing the use of a ship as a device to further an act of terrorism (London, 2005)
• Protocol on Fixed Platforms — Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (Rome, 1988)
• Plastic Explosives Convention — Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection (Montreal, 1991)
• Terrorist Bombing Convention — International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (New York, 1997)
• Terrorist Financing Convention — International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (New York, 1999)
• Nuclear Terrorism Convention — International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (New York, 2005)

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

• UNICRI Center on Policies to Counter the Appeal of Terrorism
• Short Course on Hologrammatic Terrorism:  Political Violence in the Communication Society (16 to 22 September 2010) — sponsored by UNICRI.  It “aims to provide students and young professionals with a comprehensive understanding and a detailed perspective on communication, geopolitical and social aspects related to the problem and the evolution of terrorist groups in a globalized society.”