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Publications
 Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement
May 2009 | Eric Rosand, Naureen Chowdhury Fink, and Jason Ipe
The circumstances surrounding the horrific November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, much like the September 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, and the many other terrorist acts before and after it across South Asia, have underscored both the regional nature of the terrorist threat and the need for enhanced capacities and greater cooperation within the region to address it. The recently released Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation/International Peace Institute report, Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement (May 2009), explores ways to strengthen such cooperation, with a particular focus on the role that the United Nations can play in that regard. It urges the United Nations to build on the international community’s solidarity in the wake of recent attacks in the region to forge stronger engagement between the United Nations and South Asia on counterterrorism and within the region itself.
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 Policy Brief - From Adoption to Action: The UN’s Role in Implementing its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
April 2009 | Eric Rosand
In the first in a series of policy briefs from the Center and collaborating experts, Center Co-Director Eric Rosand examines the role of the United Nations system in carrying forward implementation of the UN General Assembly's 2006 Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Coordinated, strategic, and sustained engagement by different parts of the UN system with states and other stakeholders is needed to help countries strengthen their counterterrorism capacities and implement the Strategy. After highlighting some of the United Nations’ achievements in supporting Strategy implementation efforts, this policy brief enumerates some of the challenges facing the organization as it seeks to enhance these efforts and offers suggestions on how to overcome them.
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Events
Workshop on the Role of Civil Society in the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Africa
24-25 June 2009 | Mandela Rhodes Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and the Institute for Security Studies will be hosting a meeting with civil society groups from around Africa designed to raise awareness of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and explore the possibilities of involving civil society in its implementation. The project is based on the belief that the UN Strategy provides civil society a unique opportunity to engage on a range of security issues from which they have too often been excluded. It aims to build on the rich contributions of civil society to furthering human security in Africa and lay the foundations for the development of an African civil society network related to the issues covered in the UN Strategy. |
The Role of Regional Organizations in Countering Terrorism: Lessons for the New U.S. President
June 2009 [date to be determined] | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, Washington, DC
In the fifth installment of a series of events on the presidential transition, Center Co-Director Alistair Millar will moderate a discussion on “The Role of Regional Organizations in Countering Terrorism: Lessons for the New U.S. President.” The discussants will include representatives from key regional organizations, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States' Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, as well as the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force. They will highlight successes and challenges in the efforts of key regional organizations and U.S. engagement with those organizations and highlight lessons learned for the new administration. |
Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Building Capacities and Strengthening Multilateral Engagement
20 May 2009 | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, Washington, DC
This event will discuss the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation/International Peace Institute report, Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement (May 2009), which explores ways to build counterterrorism capacities and strengthen counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia, with a particular focus on the role that the United Nations can play in that regard. Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, will be joined by Mike Smith, Executive Director of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, Eric Rosand, Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation [Co-author]; and Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Senior Program Officer, International Peace Institute [Co-author] in a discussion moderated by Alistair Millar, Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.
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Conference on Destabilising Factors and Transnational Threats
23-24 April 2009 | Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome
The Government of Italy, which currently holds the presidency of the G8, hosted a conference on “Transnational Threats and Destabilising Factors.” It served as an occasion to discussion how to confront terrorism and related security challenges that contribute to domestic and international instability. The view of the Italian G8 presidency “is that a common analysis is needed of how these phenomena are interconnected and what political instruments could be enacted to impede them; and that an effective response requires greater synergy between national and international policies.”
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Human Rights and Counterterrorism: The Role of the UN
20 April 2009 | International Peace Institute, New York, NY
Center Co-Director Eric Rosand moderated an IPI lunchtime policy forum on “Human Rights and Counterterrorism: The Role of the UN.” Mexican Ambassador to the UN, Claude Heller, discussed the UN’s role in upholding human rights, and the instruments at its disposal. The panelists––John Sifton of One World Research, Kristen Boon of Seton Hall University School of Law, and Edward Flynn of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate––discussed the weaknesses in upholding human rights within the international counterterrorism regime. Among the shortcomings highlighted were those abuses taking place on a wide scale but often neglected by the media: detention, profiling, deportation, and asset freezing. Judicial challenges to implementation of the Security Council’s counterterrorism regime were also discussed, as were the role and function of the Security Council and its Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate.
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Conflict Without Borders: Confronting Violent Non-State Actors in the New Security Environment
14 April 2009 | National Defense University, Washington, DC
Center Co-Director Alistair Millar gave a presentation on "The UN's role in combating transnational threats, including terrorism," as part of a seminar titled "Conflict Without Borders: Confronting Violent Non-State Actors in the New Security Environment.”The seminar included over 30 mid-career government leaders from North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and took place at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
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 Enhancing Cooperation to Prevent WMD Terrorism: Lessons for the New U.S. President
18 February 2009 | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, Washington, DC
In the fourth installment of a series of events on the presidential transition, Center Co-Director Alistair Millar moderated a discussion on "Enhancing Cooperation to Prevent WMD Terrorism: Lessons for the New U.S. President" with Richard Cupitt from the United Nations Security Council’s 1540 Committee, O'Neil Hamilton, a Visiting Fellow from the Henry L. Stimson Center, and Andrew Semmel, a former official in the U.S. State Department. Participants considered successes and challenges in U.S. and global efforts to prevent WMD terrorism and highlighted key lessons to learn for the new administration.
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Newsworthy
18 March 2009
UN releases report on "Supporting Victims of Terrorism" based on the Secretary-General's 9 September 2008 Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism.
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4 March 2009
"UN counter-terrorism task force shifts into new operational phase," UN News Service.
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16 February 2009
Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights calls for urgent steps to restore human rights in efforts to counter terrorism.
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10 February 2009
Center Co-Director Eric Rosand discusses the Obama administration's approach to counterterrorism on Worldfocus on PBS.
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