Preventing violent extremism through the United Nations: the rise and fall of a good idea

Ucko, David H.

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“…The United Nations has reacted accordingly with the 2016 Action Plan for Preventing Violent Extremism by the then UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who acknowledges the scope of the global threat and provides the foundation for preventing violent extremism through the UN system (Ucko, 2018). The action plan was designed to "take a more comprehensive approach which encompasses not only ongoing, essential security-based counter-terrorism measures, but also systematic preventive measures which directly address the drivers of violent extremism."…”

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Legal Framework on Prevention of Extremism in Malaysia

Rajamanickam

Zainudin

Thinakaran

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The world is now facing phenomenon of violent extremism that threatens universal safety and security. The United Nations (UN) is against violent extremism and urges Member States to prevent violent extremism in their respective countries. In this context, Malaysia as one of the Member States under the UN is also required to take an initiative towards preventing violent extremism in the country. The pertinent question is, what is meant by violent extremism? Does violent extremism only focus on Islam? These questions need to be answered first before the government begins its initiative in preventing violent extremism in the country. Without a clear interpretation of the law, extremism cannot be effectively prevented and miscarriage of justice may occur. Therefore, this article intends to address the available legal framework on prevention of extremism in Malaysia. Before venturing into the Malaysia’s legal framework on prevention of extremism, this article will give an overview of the international framework on prevention of extremism. In achieving the objective of this article, the authors used qualitative approach with content analysis method. The article found that Malaysia has many legislations which act as preventive laws, but none of legislations define extremism.

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Legal Framework on Prevention of Extremism in Malaysia

Rajamanickam

Zainudin

Thinakaran

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“…In exchange for funding (partly in the form of counterterrorism aid), the US acquires increased influence over governments and NGO s. The US has also significantly shaped counterterrorism discourse at the United Nations. Due largely to US influence, in 2016, the United Nations formally recommended that countries across the world adopt CVE-type programmes (see Ucko 2018).…”

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Security, Islam, and Indonesia

Nakissa

2020

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This article provides an anthropological analysis of counterterrorism in Indonesia. In doing so, it draws on several complementary ideas which have shaped anthropological scholarship on security, addressing ‘states of exception’, ‘securitization’, ‘governmentality’, and ‘human security’. The article develops its analysis through the first ethnographic study of Indonesia’s national counterterrorism agency. Data comes from special access to the agency’s facilities and events as well as interviews with agency personnel and ex-terrorists. The article also argues that post-9/11 security agencies frequently embrace a distinctive ‘Muslim security strategy’ built upon several contestable assumptions. Hence, it is assumed that Islam poses extraordinary threats to physical safety, human rights, and national identity. These threats justify suspending ordinary laws, making enormous investments in security measures, and extending such measures across the globe. It is also assumed that measures to prevent threats should focus on combating radical Islamic ideas, especially in educational institutions and on the Internet.

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“…It should be recalled that the latter does not have the power to impose its decisions on the membership of this world body, but, being composed of all of the Member States, its decisions are taken to reflect world public opinion. Many of the campaigns that are called terrorism today were characterized in the past as guerilla warfare and, hence, potentially a legitimate form of the fight for self‐determination (Ucko, ). In the 1970s, however, when the Palestinian Liberation Organization was hijacking planes and committing other acts of violence, the UN began to criminalize fights for self‐determination.…”

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The Normative Unconscious Of Nations: A critical geopolitical and psychoanalytic perspectives on the United Nations Security Council's counterterrorism strategy

Khouri¹

2019

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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This paper argues that the United Nations (UN) Security Council counterterrorism policies have largely failed because they did not address many of the conditions that make certain parts of the world a fertile ground for the emergence of terrorism, including the historical antecedents that lead to violence; the lingering and pervasive influence and hegemony of UN Security Council Members; the UN Security Council members' self‐serving and morally inconsistent exercise of their power of veto or in condemning violent acts perpetrated by Member States; and the double standard in the implementation of its policies (Barnett & Finnemore, 1999; Farer, 2002; Glennon, 2003). Utilizing a critical geopolitical perspective, as well as the conceptualizations of the “normative unconscious” (Layton, 2002, 2006) and the “absent referent” (Adams, 1990) of and Benjamin's framework of witnessing and the “moral third” (Benjamin, 2018). The paper further argues that much of what is taken as the status quo in United Nations Security Council counterterrorism policies is derived from ideological principles that were ultimately created in the service of the state apparatuses (and their signature exploitative practices) that governments unconsciously feel compelled to sustain. By making explicit these proclivities, and exposing terrorists as the absent referent of the United Nations Security Council's discussions, the paper offers a psychoanalytic framework to explain the logic behind such counterterrorism policies. Further, following Benjamin, the paper suggests that by moving away from Eurocentric, zero‐sum, and colonial logic, there may be a way to organically recognize populations that are aggrieved by these state apparatuses in a way that could obviate the use of political violence and, inter alia, terrorism.

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Preventing violent extremism through the United Nations: the rise and fall of a good idea

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The Normative Unconscious Of Nations: A critical geopolitical and psychoanalytic perspectives on the United Nations Security Council's counterterrorism strategy

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