Increasingly, this is involves the Security Council having to deal with something much more modern than the ancient threat of warfare. Whereas once the Security Council was almost solely involved with preventing armies from carrying their bloody wars to innocents and across borders, now we find the Security Council having to take measures to punish and prevent individuals involved in actions that border on being defined as warfare but fall just short of that legitimization. The Security Council is being called on to deal with terrorism and those who perpetuate those acts. Each organization has their own goals, unique unto themselves, and this myriad of actors and goals presents a daunting task for the Security Council to handle. Y the key is to understanding the threat.
Terrorism is a term, which everyone can recognize but few can define it.
The United Nations is just one of the global actors that has had to wrestle with the simple problem of just defining exactly what terrorism is. In fact, the United Nations has hesitated to come up with a clear and definite answer to the question of what terrorism is. The United Nations is in a fairly unique position of having to create a definition on which the entire world can agree upon. The first basic feature, though obvious, must be recognized. Terrorism involves inducing fear.