How is purview determined?
While purview is not something readily defined within the actual UN, there are three sources used to understand the allocation of topics between committees and the authority and limitations of each committee on those particular topics. The first resource is the Charter of the United Nations, which defines the powers of the main bodies of the United Nations. The Charter also addresses the limitation of these bodies to create binding resolutions and their obligations to their Member States. The second resource is the Agenda of the United Nations General Assembly. The Agenda helps define the topics and how the topics align with the purposes of the United Nations. The Agenda also demonstrates how large issues are broken up between the committees. The third resource is reviewing previous resolutions passed by all committees on the agenda item. By reviewing previous resolutions on all three agenda items, we begin to see how the topic of terrorism is split among the committees. Precedent, wha
