Epilogue: The Seventh Review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Summary

In June 2021, just as the production of this book was nearing completion, the General Assembly completed the seventh review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and adopted General Assembly Resolution 75/291. As mentioned in Chapter 4, this (usually biennial) review had been delayed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 process was co-facilitated by Spain and Oman. Importantly, it involved civil society to a greater extent than had been the case in previous review processes. Notably, though, civil society was most successful in communicating the challenges it encounters on the ground and bringing solutions and proposals to the process through engagement with individual states, as well as in the discussions facilitated or enabled by the co-facilitators and, at times, the mandate of the UNSRCT.

In the General Assembly resolution on the seventh review, which stretches to over 100 operative paragraphs, the core propositions of transnational counter-terrorism considered throughout this book are re-affirmed.