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Combating Non-State Military Threats

The General Assembly agenda item is combating the threat of non-state military organizations. The document defines non-state armed actors as organized groups operating outside state control that use force for political objectives. These groups represent a common security challenge as their influence has increased in recent decades in many world regions like the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The United Nations has established conventions and legal documents on handling violent non-state actors and terrorism. Member states must fully implement Security Council resolutions, set up expert counter-terrorism teams, and take strong steps to combat threats from violent non-state groups in line with UN resolutions and summits.

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Combating Non-State Military Threats

The General Assembly agenda item is combating the threat of non-state military organizations. The document defines non-state armed actors as organized groups operating outside state control that use force for political objectives. These groups represent a common security challenge as their influence has increased in recent decades in many world regions like the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The United Nations has established conventions and legal documents on handling violent non-state actors and terrorism. Member states must fully implement Security Council resolutions, set up expert counter-terrorism teams, and take strong steps to combat threats from violent non-state groups in line with UN resolutions and summits.

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COMMITTEE: GENERAL ASSEMBLY

AGENDA: COMBATING THE THREAT OF NON-STATE MILITARY


ORGANIZATIONS
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM

DELEGATE’S NAME: AANCHAL GUPTA

DCAF (2011, 7) defines a non-state armed actor as any organized group with a basic
structure of command operating outside state control that uses force to achieve its political or
allegedly political objectives. The turn of the millennium and the first decade of the 21st
century have witnessed a considerable increase in military conflicts involving non-state
actors (NSAs). This trend makes necessary to examine how their existence threatens states’
sovereignty as well as which military dynamics are utilized by them to achieve their political
and military aims. With such conceptualization, it will be possible to focus on the Middle
East, one of the world’s regions which currently host some of the most important non-state
actors.

THREATS IN VARIOUS AREAS: In Europe, jihadist terrorist organizations have carried


out well-publicized attacks in Madrid and London and have only been prevented from further
actions by proactive intelligence and law enforcement. Drug-trafficking organizations are
growing rapidly in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Various youth gangs have a
highly-disruptive presence in the US and Central America. In many African countries as well
as Asia terrorists, militias and criminal organizations operate and try to politically influence
the states. Relatively few of the sovereign states represented in the United Nations can truly
claim a monopoly of force within their territorial borders. They represent a common
challenge to national and international security.

The UN has many major multilateral conventions regarding the responsibilities of member
states to combat terrorism. The UN has established written legal documents on how to handle
violent NSAs and their usage of terrorism in response to the growth attained by these groups.
United Kingdom has helped maintain peace in the world. UK also has a stated assumption
that "the most demanding operations" will be undertaken as part of a coalition. Setting aside
the intervention in Sierra Leone, recent UK military operations
in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and, most recently, Libya, have followed this approach.

The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy was adopted by Member States on 8
September 2006. The strategy, in the form of a resolution and an annexed Plan of Action
(A/RES/60/288), is a unique global instrument that will enhance national, regional and
international efforts to counter terrorism. The adoption of the strategy fulfils the commitment
made by world leaders at the 2005 September Summit. Member States, concerned
international, regional and sub-regional organizations, NGOs and civil society should support
the implementation of this Strategy. Violent NSAs and terrorism should be condemned in all
its forms. All the GA and Security Council resolutions must be implemented by the member
states. Teams comprising of experts in counter-terrorism and related issues must be set up.
Nations must take strong steps to combat the threat posed by the VNSAs. Guidelines of the
World Summit 2005 and other resolutions of UN must also be taken in consideration by the
member nations.
Actions of the violent non state military organizations are unjustifiable and should be
condemned.

Thank you.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

● Background guide
● www.un.org
● www.gov.uk

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