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In the December of 2004, the High-Level Panel, who were commissioned by the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) to propose measures in response to the new challenges in security, gave its report. The report serves as a basis for current thinking on a wide-array of issues facing the UN. Included in these topics are the methods and framework of using force in international crises, terrorism, the development of the failed states, and the necessary changes within the institutions of the UN itself. From its findings emerges the importance of a universal definition of terrorism, placing it outside the boundaries of absolute law, and the importance of reforming the Human Rights Committee and the Security Council. Despite the proposals, the latter of these suggested reforms will be difficult to bring about.

Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice of France and President of the Constitutional Council, senator of Hauts-de-Seine (France). He took part in a High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Changes who were charged by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to draft a report that was made public in December of 2004 under the title: A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility.