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Background


The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, a project of the Fourth Freedom Forum, is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that works to improve internationally coordinated responses to the continually evolving threat of terrorism by providing governments and international organizations with timely, policy-relevant research and analysis. Building on its years of research on regional and international counterterrorism efforts, the Center continues to identify ways to improve existing arrangements for combating terrorism within the UN, the G8, and other international and regional bodies and consider new mechanisms for international counterterrorism cooperation.

The Center draws on over fifteen years of experience developing practical policy options to improve the effectiveness of combining multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of statecraft and the development of international norms and other cooperative measures to prevent terrorism.

Over the past four years, the center's core staff has analyzed UN counterterrorism efforts on behalf of the Ford Foundation, the UN Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Danish, Japanese, Dutch, and other governments. Those assessments of current international counterterrorism arrangements, with their accompanying recommendations, have directly informed the work of the UN counterterrorism programs, the UN Secretary-General's task forces on counterterrorism and reform, and helped guide the policies of individual member states.