Combatiendo el terrorismo de forma legítima y efectiva: recomendaciones para Barack Obama

Human Rights Watch lanza una serie de recomendaciones para el Presidente electo de los Estados Unidos, Barak Obama, partiendo del supuesto que durante los últimos 7 años, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos de forma consistente ha despreciado los Derechos Humanos en su lucha contra el terrorismo, lo cual disminuyó su autoridad moral, y socavó el objetivo de reducir el activismo anti-americano alrededor del mundo. El uso de la tortura, retenciones ilegales, prisiones secretas, juicios injustos y detenciones arbitrarias y de largo plazo sin cargos, fueron según esta organización tanto moralmente incorrectos como contraproductivos.

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us1108webwcover.pdf

Five years after 9/11: an assessment of America´s war on terror

Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States and its allies hold a mixed record of achievement in executing the global war on terror. Domestic security and intelligence operations have improved, but the nature of the terrorist threat is changing dramatically, complicating efforts to secure homelands and defeat the groups and ideologies that nurture terrorist movements around the world. CSIS has undertaken a project to assess the degree to which a wide range of policies and practices enacted by government and business over the last five years have increased security and diminished the threat of terrorism in the United States. CSIS experts identify both significant accomplishments and continuing challenges in the U.S. conduct of the global war on terrorism in six critical areas: The Evolving Threat of Terrorism Ideology and the Battle of Ideas; America's Domestic Security; Intelligence International Cooperation; U.S. Strategy and Capabilities for Winning the Long War.

http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/five_years_after_9-11smallsize.pdf

LEGISLATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSAL LEGAL REGIME AGAINST TERRORISM

LEGISLATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSAL LEGAL REGIME AGAINST TERRORISM

This updated version of the Legislative Guide has been prepared to facilitate the task of national authorities in adopting and implementing the universal legal regime against terrorism. It replaces a publication issued in 2003, the Legislative Guide to the Universal Anti-Terrorism Conventions and Protocols. Both the 2003 and 2008 versions of the Guide were prepared for the information of government officials and others concerned with the international legal aspects of the prevention and suppression of terrorism. The 2003 Guide grouped the then existing 12 conventions and protocols according to subject matter, that is as relating to: (a) civil aviation; (b) status of the victim; (c) dangerous materials; (d) vessels and fixed platforms; and
(e) the financing of terrorism. The 2008 Guide groups the offences according to the entities of the United Nations system responsible for their development in order to place recent developed instruments in context and to indicate sources of technical expertise.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/terrorism/LegislativeGuide2008.pdf

GUIDE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE INCORPORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIVERSAL ANTI-TERRORISM INSTRUMENTS

The main purpose of the present Legislative Guide is to facilitate the task of the competent authorities of States in ratifying, incorporating in law and implementing the universal anti-terrorism instruments. The Guide has been drafted principally for the benefit of political decision makers and legislators of countries that are preparing themselves for this process of implementation. It is also designed to assist the establishment of bilateral or multilateral treaties or agreements concerning international cooperation in criminal matters related to countering terrorism. It therefore presents the basic requirements set forth by the United Nations conventions, protocols and resolutions and explores the issues that all Member States
will have to address. It sets out, in addition, a wide array of options and examples for consideration by national legislators when incorporating the counter-terrorism instruments.

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/terrorism/TATs/en/2LIGen.pdf

Previniendo actos terroristas

PREVENTING TERRORIST ACTS: A CRIMINAL JUSTICE STRATEGY INTEGRATING RULE OF LAW STANDARDS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED NATIONS ANTI-TERRORISM INSTRUMENTS

Technical Assistance Working Paper
Terrorism Prevention Branch

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/terrorism/TATs/en/3IRoLen.pdf

Proporcionando asistencia contraterrorista

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME

Terrorism Prevention Branch
Viena, March 2008

http://www.unodc.org/documents/terrorism/TPBBrochure2008.pdf

EUA: Terrorism 2002-2005

Since the mid-1980s, the FBI has published Terrorism in the United States, an unclassified annual report summarizing terrorist activities in this country. While this publication provided an overview of the terrorist threat in the United States and its territories, its limited scope proved inadequate for conveying either the breadth or width of the terrorist threat facing U.S. interests or the scale of the FBI’s response to terrorism worldwide. To better reflect the nature of the threat and the international scope of our response, the FBI expanded the focus of its annual terrorism report in the 2000/2001 edition to include discussion of FBI investigations overseas and renamed the series Terrorism.

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.pdf

EUA: The terrorist threat to the US homeland (NIE)

National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) are the Intelligence Community’s (IC) most authoritative written judgments on national security issues and designed to help US civilian and military leaders develop policies to protect US national security interests. NIEs usually provide information on the current state of play but are primarily “estimative”—that is, they make judgments about the likely course of future events and identify the implications for US policy.

http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf

Journalism, civil liberties and the war on terrorism

A report on the impact of the war on terrorism on civil liberties should set alarm bells ringing around the world of journalism, says the International Federation of Journalists today.The IFJ, the world’s largest journalists’ group has chosen World Press Freedom Day 2005 to launch its 60-page assessment of how civil liberties and free expression are being sacrificed by democratic states in the name of security. “The response by governments to the threat of terrorism is out of all proportion,” says the report. “The war on terrorism amounts to a devastating challenge to the global culture of human rights and civil liberties established almost 60 years ago.”The report, produced jointly by the IFJ and the civil liberties group Statewatch, includes an analysis of current policy developments as well as a survey of some 20 selected countries, concludes that around half of the minimum standards set out in the Universal Declaration of on Human Rights are being undermined by the war on terrorism.

http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/217/000/e70ecd9-6e77800.pdf

Reino Unido: Terrorism Act 2006

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/pdf/ukpga_20060011_en.pdf





These notes refer to the Terrorism Act 2006 (c.11) which received Royal Assent on 30 March 2006.


http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/en/ukpgaen_20060011_en.pdf

Policing terrorism: an executive´s guide

By Graeme R. Newman and Ronald V. Clarke

http://www.popcenter.org/library/reading/pdfs/PolicingTerrorism.pdf

Protegiéndose contra el Terrorismo

Recomendaciones por el servicio secreto británico (MI5)

El Servicio Secreto del Reino Unido, mejor conocido como MI5 a través de su National Security Advice Centre (NSAC), da a conocer el documento: Protecting Against Terrorism, que proporciona recomendaciones generales para seguridad y protección ante este problema. Está orientado a empresas y organizaciones que buscan reducir el riesgo de un ataque terrorista, o a limitar el daño que el terrorismo puede causar. La publicación se divide en tres secciones:La sección 1, trata con lo que debe considerarse seguridad protectora, con análisis de riesgos, planeación en seguridad e implantación.La sección 2, cubre un gran rango de medidas de seguridad, desde la seguridad física, la protección de tecnologías de la información hasta la selección y reclutamiento del personal.La sección 3, proporciona información más específica sobre los principales tipos de ataques con explosivos, como protegerse de ellos y los procedimientos recomendados para manejar las amenazas de bomba.Consulte el documento completo en:

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/files/pdf/protecting.pdf

Terrorismo: Lo que viene

La amenaza cambiante

El Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) reunió a los expertos mundiales más reconocidos para examinar el fenómeno del terrorismo moderno. Según sus editores, con creatividad, conocimiento y profundidad sobre aspectos sociales, políticos, tácticos y de políticas públicas, estos pensadores ayudan a comprender un fenómeno complejo y frecuentemente mal entendido.

http://www.terrorisminfo.mipt.org/pdf/Terrorism-Whats-Coming-The-Mutating-Threat.pdf

Terrorismo y Guerrilla en México

En el Volúmen 8, Número 1 de 2008 de Foreign Affairs en español se analizan diversos temas de seguridad. Gerardo Rodríguez Sánchez Lara y Mario Arroyo Juárez tratan el tema de "Terrorismo y guerrilla en México".

RESUMEN DEL ARTÍCULO:

Hasta el 2007, México no había asimilado la posibilidad real de estar amenazado por una organización terrorista internacional como lo es Al Qaeda, menos aún se tenía en el espectro el que alguno de los movimientos armados subversivos tuviera la capacidad de atacar las instalaciones estratégicas del país y tampoco había caído en cuenta que los cárteles de droga estaban utilizando el terrorismo como una estrategia para atemorizar a las autoridades en la llamada “guerra contra el narcotráfico”. Las instituciones del Estado tienen el reto de afrontar estos retos y resulta cada vez más necesaria una reforma de segunda generación de las instituciones de seguridad nacional de México. El número está disponible ya en el sitio:
http://www.foreignaffairs-esp.org/20080101faenespessay080105/gerardo-rodriguez-sanchez-lara-mario-arroyo-juarez/terrorismo-guerrilla-y-narcoterrorismo.html

“US´S attitude towards Mexico after 9/11: an immediate scapegoat or a lasting ally?

Chapter in the book:

My USA: Views on American National Security and Foreign Policy, Mireille Radoi (Editor).

http://www.tritonic.ro/isbn-978-973-733-148-9.htm