We accept that terrorism does constitute a serious threat to world's national
security and that criminal and other laws are needed to respond to this threat.
However, the capacity of such laws to deter terrorism should not be overstated,
and world's legal response must not be disporportionate to thet threat. It
should be consistent with fundamental human rights and the rule of law. The two
main drafting methods used to define terrorism are the general and the specific
approaches. The specific approacg identifies certian activities as terrorism,
such as hijacking and taking hostages without seeking to define a general
category of terrorism per se, while the general