For information only - not an official document
UNIS/MA/127
14 January 2016
NEW YORK/VIENNA, 14 January - The Secretary-General will present his Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (A/70/674) for the consideration of the General Assembly during an informal meeting of the General Assembly on 15 January 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters.
In recent years, terrorist groups such as ISIL, Al-Qaida and Boko Haram have shaped our image of violent extremism and the debate about how to address this threat. Their message of intolerance - religious, cultural, social - has had drastic consequences for many regions of the world. Holding territory and using social media for real-time communication of their atrocious crimes, they seek to challenge our shared values of peace, justice and human dignity.
In the Plan, the Secretary-General calls for a comprehensive approach encompassing not only essential security-based counter-terrorism measures but also systematic preventive steps to address the underlying conditions that drive individuals to radicalize and join violent extremist groups.
The Plan is an appeal for concerted action by the international community. It provides more than 70 recommendations to Member States and the United Nations System to prevent the further spread of violent extremism.
The Plan is accompanied by a Letter of the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly (A/70/675), where the Secretary-General puts forward an "All-of-UN" approachboth at Headquarters and in the field to support national, regional and global efforts to prevent violent extremism and assist Member States in developing National Plans of Action.
The Plan was developed through an extensive United Nations inter-agency process and is based on the outcomes of high-level meetings of the General Assembly and Security Council, interactive briefings to Member States and outcomes of international and regional meetings.
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The event starts on 15 January 2016 at 16:00 CET (10:00 New York time) - for live webcast go to: http://webtv.un.org/#
Further background material is available here
To see what the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) does in the field of Terrorism Prevention go to http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism/index.html
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For more information please go to:
https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/ctitf/plan-action-prevent-violent-extremism
or contact
Laurence Gerard, Public Information Officer, Counter-Terrorism Task Force (CTITF), gerardl@un.org - +1-212-963-0629.
Jose Luis Diaz, Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, Department of Political Affairs diaz8@un.org | +1 (917) 367-5264
