Security Council resolution 1963 (2010) marked a significant shift in the Council¡¯s approach to counter-terrorism. Prior to 2010, the Council and its subsidiary counter-terrorism bodies had focused primarily on security-related, legal, and punitive measures, whereas the new slant reflected the recognition by the Security Council that a more expansive approach might be more effective.
As part of these efforts, on 31 October 2017 the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee organized an open informal briefing on ¡°Developing national and regional comprehensive and integrated counter-terrorism strategies (lessons learned).¡± The briefing featured presentations by CTED, as well as from the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism.
In its presentation, CTED outlined three key effects Security Council resolutions 1963 (2010) and 2129 (2013) had on the Committee¡¯s and CTED¡¯s work. First, the adoption of both resolutions led to a more expansive approach to achieving objectives of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005). Second, they encouraged CTED to pay ¡°attention to factors that lead to terrorist activities,¡± thereby increasingly aligning the Council¡¯s counter-terrorism measures with those of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Lastly, the resolutions enabled CTED to engage with non-governmental stakeholders, including civil society, academia, and the media. Ultimately, this engagement should inform and feed into the development of comprehensive, integrated national and regional counter-terrorism strategies, as well as implementing mechanisms that include attention to factors that lead to terrorist activities.
Through open dialogue, Member States made interventions, shared their current counter-terrorism strategies and offered their observations of good practices. As CTED expressed during the gathering, the briefing demonstrated ¡°the transparency of the Committee¡¯s work in areas of crucial importance to Member States¡¯ counter-terrorism efforts¡± to a wide audience of Member and Observer States, UN entities, intergovernmental organizations, and specialized agencies.