Terrorismĭespite the extensive treaty law, there is no single comprehensive definition of terrorism common to all, with each treaty instead addressing a particular issue, e.g. These resolutions and the Security Council’s authority to make them will be the subject of this article. Rather than presenting individual (purportedly deviant) member states with requirements, the latest resolutions create binding obligations for all member states of the UN. 5 However, the resolutions passed by the Security Council following 9/11 differ from these earlier interventions.

4 The Security Coun-cil had likewise addressed the threat of terrorism in resolutions pertaining to Libya, Sudan and Afghanistan. The General Assembly has agreed 13 counterterrorism treaties, 12 ofwhich were concluded before the attacks of 9/11.

2 Members of the Security Council, rather than raising their hands to vote for the resolution condemning the attacks as is usual practice, instead voted by rising to their feet „in a show of unity in the face of the scourge of terrorism.“ 3 Academics and publishers found new material and universities sold new study lines in security and terror- ism.īut terrorism is not a new phen-omenon and the UN has had reasonto address it long before now. United Nations (UN) organs and States rushed to condemn the attacks and offer their condolences to an unprecedented extent. International geopolitics was transformed overnight, as the World’s only superpower responded to its first experience of mass killing of civilians on their home soil by foreign non-State actors. One could be forgiven for believing that terrorism was invented on the 9th of September 2001, given the international response to the attacks that day on the United States (9/11). He Security Council cannot legislate for the world.

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