ABSTRACT
The Security Council’s sanctions regime against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Al-Qaida and associated individuals groups, undertakings and entities is a key effort in the global fight against terrorism. Members of the Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee have faced a considerably different decision situation from that of the Council. This chapter explores the Al-Qaida sanctions regime’s political origins, how consensus around counter-terrorism sanctions emerged, and what this means for committee governance. It examines how the committee developed a laissez-faire attitude toward sanctioning suspected supporters of terrorism, and how this undermined effectiveness. The chapter describes how Council and the committee used rules to cure these defects even before establishing a review mechanism. It aims to evaluate the approach to delisting and connected issues of committee governance. It looks at committee governance around the Taliban sanctions regime’s splitting and focuses on how the Office of the Ombudsperson affected committee decision-making.
