Efforts to stop terrorist recruitment will be a central focus of global diplomacy when Australia takes over next month as president of the United Nations Security Council.
Australia also wants to highlight the key role police can play as peacekeepers in the world's troublespots – a move that follows months of frustrated attempts to have international investigators scour the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The focus on police is bound to catch Russia's attention, one of the five permanent council members, amid a simmering row with the Abbott government over support for proxy militias in neighbouring Ukraine.
Australia will take over the rotating presidency for the month of November, the last weeks of what has been a widely praised two-year stint on the 15-member council.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has nominated countering the global terrorist threat posed by extremists in Iraq and Syria, as well as co-operating to stop radicalisation and recruitment, as a major theme for talks.
Each country acting as president for the month is entitled to set topics for the council.
Ms Bishop said Australia would also focus on peacekeeping and policing, "highlighting the increasingly important role that police play in peacekeeping missions in post-conflict stabilisation, peace building, and upholding the rule of law".
The government sought to have federal police deployed with Dutch counterparts to eastern Ukraine after MH17 was shot down in July to recover human remains and conduct an international investigation.
But fighting at the crash site – which the government has blamed on continued Russian support for rebels – largely stymied the police action.
Australia has previously deployed police to the Solomon Islands and East Timor in peacekeeping roles, and also sent a contingent of police to Afghanistan during the war.
The council last week issued a media statement condemning the "vicious string" of suicide attacks in and around Baghdad and called for so-called Islamic State fighters to be defeated.
"The intolerance, violence and hatred it espouses must be stamped out," the statement said.
Experts have nominated the Australian-sponsored resolution passed days after the downing of MH17 as a high point of Australia's time on the council – a position won after an emphatic vote in 2012 to defeat Finland.
Melissa Conley Tyler from the Australian Institute of International Affairs said the resolution was possible only after hard work building relationships and engaging across the huge range of issues that come before the council.
Laura Shepherd of the University of New South Wales said Australia's time had been worthwhile and said the attention given to women in conflict was "extremely positive".
The theme of "women, peace and security" is another of the areas Ms Bishop wants the council to discuss in November.
Associate Professor Shepherd said she would like to see a shorter lapse before Australia again ran for a seat on the council, but said with New Zealand having just been elected for the next two years, there was a chance for southern hemisphere diplomacy.
