Goals of Terrorist Organizations versus World Peace: Collaborative Counter Terrorism as Panacea
- April 28, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Public Administration
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Goals of Terrorist Organizations versus World Peace: Collaborative Counter Terrorism as Panacea
Charles Chidi Eleonu PhD
Department of Public Administration, Port Harcourt Polytechnic, Rumuola Road Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria
Abstract:-Promotion of world peace is the cardinal purpose of the United Nations. Opposed to the principles of the United Nations are the overall goals of several terrorist organizations which operate all over the world. Today there is a list of some most dangerous terrorist organizations with specified goals and objectives. They parade huge wealth and exhibit forms of criminality, some also have sponsorship and backing of sovereign governments. The terrorist organizations are mostly Islamic extremists operating within specific regions. The paper found that the identified specific goals and objectives of the terrorist organizations are contrary to the purposes of the United Nations. The paper found that the specific goals of the terrorist organizations are connected to Islamic fundamentalist agenda and are therefore selfish in content and parochial in intent. The paper in addition found that the increasing proliferation of Islamic terrorist organizations does in no way indicate a near attainment of world peace. The paper concludes that with the selfish, parochial specific goals of the terrorist organizations which are particularistic with Islamic fundamentalism, world peace is a mirage. The paper therefore suggests a committed collaborative effort to end the remote selfish plan to Islamize the world. The theoretical framework adopted in this research paper is the realism approach.
Keywords: Terrorism, Counter Terrorism, Islamic Fundamentalist, Caliphate, International Organizations.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Charter of the United Nations Organization (UN) since 1945 provides the framework for achieving and maintaining world peace, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, prompt maintenance of justice and respect for international law and to promote better standards of life in larger freedom. The United Nations charter in Article one show its purposes which include: to maintain international peace and security and to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace among others.
