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Can the UN Battle Terrorism Effectively?

From USA Today Magazine

Security Council resolutions have "mobilized states for a campaign of nonmilitary cooperative law enforcement measures to combat global terrorism." This is an extended version of the article appearing in the January 2005 issue of USA Today magazine.

By David Cortright

For more information, contact David Cortright by email or phone 800-233-6786, ext. 14; outside the U.S., dial +574-534-3402, ext. 14.

Can the UN Battle Terrorism Effectively?

Security Council resolutions have "mobilized states for a campaign of nonmilitary cooperative law enforcement measures to combat global terrorism."

In this extended version of a new article appearing in the January 2005 USA Today magazine, author David Cortright examines how the United Nations Committee on Counter-Terrorism is working with nation states and regional organizations to combat terrorism multilaterally.

David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
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