The Counter-Terrorism Committee, or the CTC, is made up of all 15 members of the UN Security Council. The aim of the CTC is to advocate states to follow Resolutions 1373 and 1624. Including steps such as criminalizing and denying any sort of financial aid of terrorists, the freezing of any funds of people that are involved in acts of terrorism, the extinguishing of any and all safe places, provisions, or any thing else supporting terrorists within a state, the sharing of details about terrorist organizations from one state to the other, and the co-operation with governments with the investigation and arrest of terrorists.
The CTC was founded under resolution 1373 in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States. In 2004 the Security Counsel adopted Resolution 1535; this created an Executive Directorate, or EDCTC, for the CTC. The EDCTC helps to provide expert advice on how to respond to terrorist acts and how to bring nations together to act against such attacks. Headed by Jeremy Greenstock, the CTC has investigated how its member states can take a more active role against terrorist acts. These include acts of the legislative branch of a government, and the aiding of member states to meet the goals set forth by Resolution 1373. During the 2005 World Summit Conference, members of the Security Counsel convened and debated over sever issues regarding terrorism that have been up for debate for years. They also came to the adoption of the formal definition for the word terrorism at the Summit. This allowed to CTC to gain more ground in aiding countries to take measures to combat terrorist organizations.
Although the CTC has made no groundbreaking efforts to abolish terrorism, and was founded out of fear of other terrorist organizations in 2001, it has much potential to aid the world in the never ending fight against terrorists. Meanwhile it remains fairly useless. The CTC has no real power to enforce resolution 1373 and merely acts as a go between for nations struggling to fight terrorists. It is also only comprised of the members of the Security Counsel. As of now, unless more members are added, it hardly makes sense to have an entire committee made of every member of a Counsel dedicated to ending bloodshed in the world.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Counter-Terrorism_Committee
http://www.un.org/en/sc/ctc/aboutus.html
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