Style Management: Images of Global Counter-Terrorism at the United Nations

general assembly of the united nations and terrorism

this article is examining the general assembly’s efforts on terrorism and the impacts they have had on states’ behaviors in last three decades. general assembly actions on terrorism can be divided in two types: first, actions contributing to development of normative conceptions of the problem by defining terrorism as a common phenomena which proceeded in its resolutions; and second, encouraging...

Opportunities and Risks of the United Nations Global Compact

Global Health-Related Public-Private Partnerships and the United Nations

This is one in a series of policy briefs commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to encourage sound thinking on aspects of globalisation. These briefs have been commissioned from and produced by the GASPP programme, an AngloFinnish research and public information programme based partly in STAKES, Helsinki. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. This initial series of b...

Data Mining for Counter-Terrorism

Data mining is becoming a useful tool for detecting and preventing terrorism. This paper first discusses some technical challenges for data mining as applied for counterterrorism applications. Next it provides an overview of the various types of terrorist threats and describes how data mining techniques could provide solutions to counterterrorism. Finally some privacy concerns and potential sol...

according to the law and practices of the united nations

according to the article 4(1) of the charter of the united nations four conditions (stateness, peace-loving, acceptance of the obligations in the charters obligation) should be maintained for the admission of the new members. despite the express enunciation of these conditions and the confirmation of those conditions by the international court of justice (icj) in his advisory opinion on “the co...