The Council of Europe towards terrorism – the elements of counteraction strategy

The main purpose of this paper is to present selected elements of the Council of Europe strategy to combat the phenomenon of terrorism, in which the major role is played by the Council documents. The dramatic events that took place in the early twenty–first century changed the perception of the threat of terrorism. As a result the approach to the issue a special attention is paid to substrate of the phenomenon. The Council of Europe developed a series of concrete measures to combat and hence prevent terrorism. Unfortunately, they failed to agree on a convention draft that treats the problem of combat terrorism as a whole. Thus, we have to deal with several acts, which are complementary to each other. Adopted documents form a kind of international legal system against terrorism, as a part of the shaped global strategy to combat this phenomenon.Dr hab. Ewa M. Guzik–Makaruk - Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Dr Elżbieta Zatyka - Uniwersytet w Białymstok