The issue and concept of terrorism -- chronology of initiatives sponsored or co-sponsored by the I.P.O.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the International Progress Organization has organized international research meetings with the aim of establishing a consistent and comprehensive definition of the term "terrorism." After consultations with legal experts in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia, and with the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, the I.P.O. convened legal experts from all continents at the International Conference on the Question of Terrorism in Geneva. On the basis of the goals and policies of the United Nations Organization, one of the main aims of the I.P.O.'s initiatives has been to make a clear distinction between the concepts of "terrorism" and acts of resistance of national liberation movements. This is exactly the dilemma the international community is faced with today.

	International Conference on the Legal Aspects of the Palestine Problem (Vienna, 5-7 November 1980)
	International Conference on the Question of Terrorism (Geneva, 19-21 March 1987)
	Geneva Declaration on Terrorism (21 March 1987)
	Terrorism and National Liberation -- I.P.O. research publication (1988)
	International Conference on Democracy and Terrorism (New Delhi, 27 July 1996)
	The Baku Declaration (Baku, Azerbaijan, 9 November 2001)
	The United Nations, the International Rule of Law and Terrorism: Fourteenth Centenary Lecture delivered by the President of the I.P.O. at the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Manila, 12 March 2002
	International Conference on Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Cooperation (Shanghai, 14-16 November 2002)
	Lectures series by the President of the I.P.O. on the question of terrorism (2002)
	International Roundtable "The 'Global War on Terror' and its Implications for Muslim-Western Relations" (Penang, Malaysia, 13-14 December 2007)