Rogue Newbie
04-06-2005, 07:10
And I've finally proposed it officially. Please check it out and give it your approval if you like it. Support is appreciated.
Release of Vital Knowledge Act
International Security: Mild.
REALIZING that international terrorism is a threat to all nations in one form or another;
GRANTED that it is the right of nations to protect themselves by taking appropriate counter-terrorist action;
ACKNOWLEDGING that the United Nations is an institution of many nations trying to work towards smoother diplomatic policies;
ACKNOWLEDGING FURTHER that the United Nations should feel obligated to lend support to one another in times of international crisis;
RECOGNIZING that terrorism can quickly find itself in the category of international crisis;
DEFINING terrorism as the use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against right-possessing civilians resulting in the intimidation or coercion of societies or governments;
DEFINING right-possessing civilians as civilians that have not, for any reason, lost their rights of citizenship for all purposes of this resolution;
DEFINING FURTHER terrorism as inapplicable in times of war unless committed by a warring nation on an uninvolved nation, or vise versa;
EXCLUDING intranational coups from being considered terrorism for the purpose of this resolution unless said coup is initially endorsed with military aid or funding on an international level;
ACKNOWLEDGING FURTHER that terrorism can be committed by any of the following: individuals, small followings, large followings, international organizations, nations, regions;
LET IT BE MANDATED that, in the event of terrorist-level international crisis, the following measures be taken by UN member nations:
1.) All member nations release any information to the offended nation that is in their possession with regard to the offending terrorist party, so that they are better-equipped to handle the situation. The recieving nation may not reveal any information they acquire in this manner to outside parties.
2.) Nations that would feel threatened by revealing such information may request protection, and be exempt from provision one (1) until said protection has been delivered. They must settle for one thousand (1000) troops, but they may settle for fewer. This protection must be given voluntarily.
3.) Noting that terrorism is a term which can be interpreted a variety of ways, let the United Nations form a committee, dubbed ROVKC or the Release of Vital Knowledge Committee, that will decide whether the definition of terrorism as defined by this resolution is applicable on a case-by-case basis. Debate of each case will be permitted to last a maximum of twenty-four (24) hours. Service of this committee is voluntary and all UN member nations may send one representative if they so desire; however, the maximum number of representatives allowed on the committee for each case will be two hundred (200) and no more than one nation from each region may join the committee.* If a regional delegate wishes to be present at the committee meeting, it shall be his express privelege to participate in place of other non-delegate nations within his region. If no nations apply to be a part of the committee, then the offended nation will be permitted to decide for itself whether the attack was of an international terrorist nature. This should prevent abuse of this resolution if there is a reasonable suspicion that the nation is attempting to gather information illegally.
*The first two-hundred nations to apply will be accepted. Afterwards, applications will be discarded.
By the way, I would like to explain my reasoning on various major aspects of the resolution.
1) Exclusion of intranational terrorist attacks from the definition of terrorism - I do not feel that it should be the UN's job to provide counterterrorism support for intranational affairs, only international affairs.
2) Creation of the committee - I want to ensure that no (or very, very, very few) cases are ever incorrectly defined as "terrorist."
3) Limit to 24-hour debate - to make decisions on terrorism hasty so that as little time as possible is spent debating before the information can be put to use, and to encourage nations to wait for the information before they go after terrorist parties without being full informed on their activities.
4) Limit to 200 members in committee - same reason as limit of time: to speed up the debate process.
5) Limit of one member from each region - regions generally consist of nations with similar views, and also I do not want there to be a chance of one region performing a covert terrorist attack and then forcing all of their allies in to fill up the voting slots, thereby deciding that a terrorist attack was not terrorism illegitimately.
6) Allowing regional delegate special power - to allow the feelings of the region as a whole to decide whether an act is one of terrorism, not just the quickest nation to buzz in that happens to be in that region.
7) Provision two - serves to protect smaller nations.
8) Prohibition of a nation revealing information received in this way - serves to greatly deter any attempts at using this resolution for unscrupulous purposes in a manner similar to the committee; also serves to protect smaller nations with an attempt to ensure that information transferred with regards to this resolution be kept confidential.
9) Definition of right-possessing civilian - I feel that many nations would not want to comply with a counterterrorism resolution, even one that just releases information, over the lives of criminals; this fact may be cold-hearted, but it is, in my mind, the bitter truth.
Release of Vital Knowledge Act
International Security: Mild.
REALIZING that international terrorism is a threat to all nations in one form or another;
GRANTED that it is the right of nations to protect themselves by taking appropriate counter-terrorist action;
ACKNOWLEDGING that the United Nations is an institution of many nations trying to work towards smoother diplomatic policies;
ACKNOWLEDGING FURTHER that the United Nations should feel obligated to lend support to one another in times of international crisis;
RECOGNIZING that terrorism can quickly find itself in the category of international crisis;
DEFINING terrorism as the use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against right-possessing civilians resulting in the intimidation or coercion of societies or governments;
DEFINING right-possessing civilians as civilians that have not, for any reason, lost their rights of citizenship for all purposes of this resolution;
DEFINING FURTHER terrorism as inapplicable in times of war unless committed by a warring nation on an uninvolved nation, or vise versa;
EXCLUDING intranational coups from being considered terrorism for the purpose of this resolution unless said coup is initially endorsed with military aid or funding on an international level;
ACKNOWLEDGING FURTHER that terrorism can be committed by any of the following: individuals, small followings, large followings, international organizations, nations, regions;
LET IT BE MANDATED that, in the event of terrorist-level international crisis, the following measures be taken by UN member nations:
1.) All member nations release any information to the offended nation that is in their possession with regard to the offending terrorist party, so that they are better-equipped to handle the situation. The recieving nation may not reveal any information they acquire in this manner to outside parties.
2.) Nations that would feel threatened by revealing such information may request protection, and be exempt from provision one (1) until said protection has been delivered. They must settle for one thousand (1000) troops, but they may settle for fewer. This protection must be given voluntarily.
3.) Noting that terrorism is a term which can be interpreted a variety of ways, let the United Nations form a committee, dubbed ROVKC or the Release of Vital Knowledge Committee, that will decide whether the definition of terrorism as defined by this resolution is applicable on a case-by-case basis. Debate of each case will be permitted to last a maximum of twenty-four (24) hours. Service of this committee is voluntary and all UN member nations may send one representative if they so desire; however, the maximum number of representatives allowed on the committee for each case will be two hundred (200) and no more than one nation from each region may join the committee.* If a regional delegate wishes to be present at the committee meeting, it shall be his express privelege to participate in place of other non-delegate nations within his region. If no nations apply to be a part of the committee, then the offended nation will be permitted to decide for itself whether the attack was of an international terrorist nature. This should prevent abuse of this resolution if there is a reasonable suspicion that the nation is attempting to gather information illegally.
*The first two-hundred nations to apply will be accepted. Afterwards, applications will be discarded.
By the way, I would like to explain my reasoning on various major aspects of the resolution.
1) Exclusion of intranational terrorist attacks from the definition of terrorism - I do not feel that it should be the UN's job to provide counterterrorism support for intranational affairs, only international affairs.
2) Creation of the committee - I want to ensure that no (or very, very, very few) cases are ever incorrectly defined as "terrorist."
3) Limit to 24-hour debate - to make decisions on terrorism hasty so that as little time as possible is spent debating before the information can be put to use, and to encourage nations to wait for the information before they go after terrorist parties without being full informed on their activities.
4) Limit to 200 members in committee - same reason as limit of time: to speed up the debate process.
5) Limit of one member from each region - regions generally consist of nations with similar views, and also I do not want there to be a chance of one region performing a covert terrorist attack and then forcing all of their allies in to fill up the voting slots, thereby deciding that a terrorist attack was not terrorism illegitimately.
6) Allowing regional delegate special power - to allow the feelings of the region as a whole to decide whether an act is one of terrorism, not just the quickest nation to buzz in that happens to be in that region.
7) Provision two - serves to protect smaller nations.
8) Prohibition of a nation revealing information received in this way - serves to greatly deter any attempts at using this resolution for unscrupulous purposes in a manner similar to the committee; also serves to protect smaller nations with an attempt to ensure that information transferred with regards to this resolution be kept confidential.
9) Definition of right-possessing civilian - I feel that many nations would not want to comply with a counterterrorism resolution, even one that just releases information, over the lives of criminals; this fact may be cold-hearted, but it is, in my mind, the bitter truth.