The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Achievements and Challenges in Post 9/11 Era

Abstract

Security has always been a topmost priority for human beings on this planet. To obtain
security, they have devised various techniques, strategies and philosophies. This
human purpose is manifested in the evolution of the international state system.
Numerous threats to collective security and peace throughout the world constitute
numerous questions on the effectiveness of the United Nations. The dawn of the 21st
century denuded problems that made the collective approach towards security even
more necessary than before. As the world faces a new wave of terrorism and extremism
in the post 9/11 era and a collective response was needed to deal with such issues in
the future. On 8th September 2006, the strategy on global terrorism was adopted by the
United Nations as an appropriated plan and resolution, so that, terrorism would be
nipped off with the support of international, regional, and national efforts. As a result of
peacebuilding measures at the global level, particularly in the war-affected Asia
countries, the United Nations has to play an effective role in maintaining peace. The
emergence of new challenges like; global warming, hunger, overpopulation, illiteracy,
poverty, and financial disparity among various nations and different regions are the
new lethal enemies of humanity which require new tactics to be beaten.