Ad+Hoc+Terrorism+Luxembourg

Patrick Nguyen Topic: State Sponsored Terrorism and Suicide Bombing

__**Policy Paper 1

A brief background of the topic:**__ State sponsor terrorism have been giving many terrorist groups funds for about fifty years now. Some countries that supports state sponsored terrorism are Iran, Pakistan, and Syria. The causes of the problem is that the countries that sponsor terrorism do not consider it terrorism or the government officials just want more power. The nations that do not agree with state sponsor terrorism are North Korea, United States, The United Kingdom. North Korea does not agree with state sponsor terrorism because they have seen the effects of terrorism when their airplanes became destroyed by terrorists. The United States definitely do not agree with terrorism because the US believe in freedom and not using fear as power. This problem has a huge effect on the international community.


 * __United Nations Involvement:__**

The United Nations held an International Convention for the Suppression of Financing Terrorism in 1999. This convention made it require for nations to do what they could to stop state-sponsored terrorism. The United Nations said that kidnapping and hostage takings are acts of terrorism in 1985. In 1992, the UN said that state-sponsored terrorism is a threat to international security. The UN have been having a hard time defining what terrorism is and if those who are struggling are terrorists or revolutionaries. Also, the UN have created a committee called the UN Counterterrorism committee to manage the terrorism issues and to give the punishment for terrorists.

__**Country Policy and Involvement:**__ So far Luxembourg have not done much on this topic, but Luxembourg agrees with the United Nations that state-sponsored terrorism is horrible. Luxembourg looks negatively on any type of terrorism because Luxembourg believes that terrorism only causes fear and pain to citizens. Luxembourg would like to be involved by helping the United Nations get rid of this threat.

__**Solutions:**__ Luxembourg would like to see the United Nations banning state-sponsored terrorism because any type of terrorism is a threat to international security. Luxembourg would like to propose a committee called ASSTF (Anti State-Sponsored Terrorism Force). This committee will weaken state-sponsored terrorism countries by weakening the terrorist funds. Another solution is to persuade a country that supports state sponsored terrorism and tell them the threat that terrorism can have in society. Luxembourg proposes a committee called the STOON (Social Talking of Other Nations) to deal with countries that support state sponsored terrorism.

__**Citation: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/sponsortoc07.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_sponsored_terrorism http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23223&Cr=terror&Cr1= http://www.minnpost.com/ericblack/2008/07/03/2460/so_whats_state-sponsored_terrorism

Policy Paper 2

Background**__ The purpose of suicide bombing is to sacrifice a human life for a destructive use. This type of attack is mainly used by terrorist extremist groups. What terrorists do is equip a bomb to themselves, and detonate the bomb which then destroys themselves and outside stuff. Suicide bombers have a very high rate of casualties due to suicide bombing and many terrorist groups train their troops how to suicide bomb efficiently. Suicide bombing has been occuring all over the world, especially in the Middle East. There were 920 suicide bombing attacks at Iraq and more than 200 suicide bombing attacks at Afghanistan. A study in 2007 showed that 80% of suicide bombers in Afghanistan were mentally or physically ill. Since 2000, Russia, United States, Turkey and the United Kingdom have been affected by suicide bombing.

__**United Nations Involvement:**__ The United Nations have made an outstanding effort in negating suicide bombings. It is very difficult for the United Nations to stop suicide bombing, so they mainly try to stop the funding of terrorist groups. Most terrorists get their funding from countries that would sponsor them so their funding can feel limitless. Since 9/11 suicide bombing have been a global issue. Suicide bombing have grown into a huge topic, so the United Nations can finding out other ways how to prevent suicide bombings now.

__**Country Policy and Involvement:**__ Luxembourg does not agree with this type of attack because it is too dangerous. Luxembourg does not believe that a human life is worth nothing. Also, Luxembourg have supported many anti terrorist treaties. Luxembourg has learned their lesson after the second World War and now we believe people should live their lives to the fullest.

__**Solutions:**__ Luxembourg proposes a committee called SBP, ( Suicide Bombing Professionals), to lower the rate of suicide bombing and to weaken the funding of terrorist groups and state sponsored-terrorism countries. Also, Luxembourg proposes a committee called the SBFFF (Suicide Bombing Facility Finding Federtaion) to secretly gain information where terrorist groups train their suicide bombers and to find out how the terrorist groups get their suicide bombers. This committee is very beneficial because it can weaken the training of suicide bombings.

__**Citation:** http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/18/ST2008041800913.html**__**__ http://www.twf.org/News/Y2002/0509-Suicide.html__**
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bombing**__**__