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It condemned all terrorist acts as criminal and unjustifiable. The declaration stressed that terrorism was contrary to the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter, endangered lives, and threatened the social and economic development of all countries and global stability as a whole. Furthermore, it asserted that a sustained and ...
The Counter-Terrorism Committee is a subsidiary body of the United Nations Security Council.. In the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1373, which, among its provisions, obliges all States to criminalize assistance for terrorist activities, deny financial support and safe haven to terrorists ...
The Terrorism Act 2006 created the offence of encouragement to terrorism, [18] which prohibits "a statement that is likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom it is published as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to them to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism or ...
The United Nations has created its own online counterterrorism resource. [150] The mass media will, on occasion, censor organizations involved in terrorism (through self-restraint or regulation) to discourage further terrorism. This may encourage organizations to perform more extreme acts of terrorism to be shown in the mass media.
This definition recognises that terrorism is not only the physical act of an attack, but also the psychological impact it has on a society for many years after. In order to be included as an incident in the GTD the act has to be: "an intentional act of violence or threat of violence by a non-state actor".
A definition proposed by Alex P. Schmid to the United Nations Crime Branch: "Act of Terrorism = Peacetime Equivalent of War Crime." [6] 1994/1996 United Nations General Assembly's 1994 Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, [9] and 1996 Supplement, Paragraph 3: [118]
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On 22 February 2017, newly-installed Secretary-General António Guterres declared that a new Office of Counter-Terrorism would soon be formed with gender-balanced staff in order "to review the capability of the UN system to assist Member States, upon their request, in implementing the GCTS in a balanced manner". He said that "terrorism cannot ...