NEWSWORTHY
15 June 2009
"Africa, United Nations Should Improve Strategies For Countering Terrorism, Experts Say at Addis Ababa Meeting," United Nations Press Release
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8 June 2009
"How African Civil Society Can Help Counter Terrorism," Daily Nation
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4 June 2009
"UN Radio Day: Senior Human Rights Officer With The Counter-Terrorism Committee," Talk Radio News
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26 May 2009
"Chairs of Secuirty Council Subsidiary Bodies, in Breifing, Underscore Importance of Inter-panel Coordination, Regular Appraisal of Working Methods," United Nations Security Council Press Release
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22 May 2009
"Pakistan advocates 'comprehensive approach' to fight terrorism," Associated Press of Pakistan
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23-24 April 2009
G8 Conference on "Destabilising Factors and Transnational Threats," Rome, Italy
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Center launches project on "Implementing the UN Counter-Terrorism Strategy in North Africa"
Recent Publications
 Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement - May 2009Horrific acts of terrorism, such as the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, underscore the regional nature of the terrorist threat in South Asia and point to the need for greater cooperation within the region to address it. This report explores ways to strengthen such cooperation, with a particular focus on the role that regional bodies and 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. Download the PDF |
 Policy Brief - The G8’s Counterterrorism Action GroupMay 2009 This policy brief argues that while the G8's CTAG has performed unevenly and largely failed to meet the goals set out for it, the mechanism still offers the best opportunity currently available for enhanced coordination of counterterrorism assistance. The piece outlines a series of possible options for maximizing CTAG’s effectiveness including delinking CTAG from the Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Counterterrorism Group or even the G8 as a whole; expanding its membership; and expanding the CTAG mandate beyond narrow security-related issues. Download the PDF |
 Policy Brief - From Adoption to Action: The UN’s Role in Implementing its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy - April 2009This policy brief examines the role of the United Nations system in carrying forward implementation of the UN General Assembly's 2006 Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It highlights some of the United Nations’ achievements in supporting Strategy implementation efforts; enumerates some of the challenges facing the organization as it seeks to enhance these efforts; and offers suggestions on how to overcome them. Download the PDF |
 Building Stronger Partnerships to Prevent Terrorism:Recommendations for President Obama - January 2009 President Barack Obama is the first U.S. President to take office since the 9/11 attacks. He has a unique opportunity to learn from the successes and failures of his predecessor’s response to the terrorist threat and recalibrate the U.S. government’s counterterrorism policies accordingly. This report outlines a number of concrete steps that President Obama should take to help reframe the counterterrorism discourse, strengthen cooperation, and build capacities around the world. Download the PDF |
Events
The Role of Regional Organizations in Countering Terrorism: Lessons for the New U.S. Administration 12 June 2009 | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, Washington, DC Regional and subregional organizations make important contributions to cooperative counterterrorism efforts. They can reinforce and lend greater legitimacy to global norms against terrorism, including by placing them within a regional context through the development and implementation of regional counterterrorism and related instruments. They often have unique knowledge and expertise on local issues that make them well-suited to develop approaches that take into account cultural and other contextual issues and undertake region-specific initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Jean-Paul Laborde, Head, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force; Pablo Martinez, Deputy Secretary and Programs Coordinator, Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism, Organization of American States; Raphael Perl, Head, Action Against Terrorism Unit, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and moderated by Alistair Millar, Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.
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Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Building Capacities and Strengthening Multilateral Engagement 20 May 2009 | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, Washington, DC The event focused on 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, was joined by Eric Rosand, Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation [Co-author]; Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Senior Program Officer, International Peace Institute [Co-author]; and Mike Smith, Executive Director, UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee's Executive Directorate in a discussion moderated by Alistair Millar, Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.
Click here to read a summary of the discussion. Click here for the report.
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