Terrorist acts as Threats to International Peace and Security

Abstract

The September 11, 2001 attacks on New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania gave rise to a new approach to international counter-terrorism measures and one of its most striking features is that the United Nations Security Council has become the key coordination organ for global counterterrorism strategy. The day after the attacks, Security Council action entered this new stage with Resolution 1368 (2001), a text which not only condemned the attacks on North American territory, but regarded any act of international terrorism as constituting a threat to international peace and security.