Publications
Reports
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 Implementing the UN Counter-Terrorism Strategy in West AfricaSeptember 2010 – By Jason Ipe, James Cockayne, and Alistair Millar Description: This report makes the case for West African states and partners to develop counterterrorism capacities and cooperation in the subregion, using the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy as their point of departure and working closely with and through ECOWAS. It concludes with a set of action-oriented recommendations that outline steps the ECOWAS Commission, ECOWAS member states, and their partners could take to develop a subregional counterterrorism framework and mechanism. And it includes other recommendations for strengthening counterterrorism cooperation in West Africa and between the subregion and external partners. Download the PDF French Version |
 Implementing the UN Counter-Terrorism Strategy in North AfricaSeptember 2010 – By James Cockayne, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: This report provides an overview of the evolving threat in North Africa and the Sahel and analyzes how states in the subregion working with external partners, including the United Nations, European Union (EU), and United States, can improve subregional counterterrorism-related cooperation. In particular, this report argues that because of its universal membership and distance from the politics of the region, the United Nations can play a unique role in catalyzing this cooperation. Download the PDF French Version |
 IGAD Practitioner Reference Manual for Mutual Legal Assistance & Extradition- March 2010Description: To assist practitioners in using the IGAD Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition Conventions, the Center commissioned Amicus Legal Consultants Ltd. and Donald Deya, CEO of the Pan African Lawyers Union, to prepare a draft IGAD Practitioner Reference Manual for Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition. The reference manual includes descriptions of the provisions of those conventions as well as practical legal issues and difficulties that practitioners (be they prosecutors, government legal advisers, law enforcement officers, or judges) may face – and possible solutions. In addition, the manual also includes the complete text of both conventions and a reference guide to other resources on mutual legal assistance and extradition. Download the PDF French Version |
| The G8's Counterterrorism Action Group: A Stock-Taking and the Need for Reform - November 2009 Description: More than eight years after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the need for more effective multilateral coordination and cooperation among the increasing number of counterterrorism donors remains significant. The G8’s Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG), established at the Evian summit in 2003, continues to offer the best available opportunity for donors to coordinate their efforts and for strategic thinking among major donors about engaging in different countries or regions, assessing the effectiveness of capacity-building assistance to date, and fine-tuning approaches going forward. This paper, prepared on behalf of Canada, the incoming CTAG president, takes stock of the group’s efforts to date and identifies a number of reforms, both short and longer-term, which CTAG members should consider adopting to enhance the group’s effectiveness. Download the PDF |
 Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement - May 2009Description: Horrific 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 |
 The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Regional and Subregional Bodies: Strengthening a Critical Partnership - October 2008Description: This report discusses the contributions that regional and subregional bodies can make to implementing the UN Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It provides a region-by-region survey of some of the contributions of those bodies and an overview of counterterrorism-related engagement between regional and subregional bodies and the UN system. It concludes with a series of forward-looking recommendations as to how to maximize the contributions of regional and subregional bodies to the implementation of the Strategy and to counterterrorism in general, as well as how to improve cooperation between those bodies and the United Nations. Download the PDF |
 International Process on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: A Compilation of Key Documents - September 2008Description: This report is a compendium of documents from the International Process on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, a process sponsored by the governments of Costa Rica, Japan, Slovakia, and Turkey and with the support of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. The focus of the process was to assess the overall contributions of the UN to the fight against terrorism and how to make its institutions more relevant to national counterterrorism strategies and better able to support implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Download the PDF |
 Civil Society and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Opportunities and ChallengesSeptember 2008 - By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: This report explores the important, and often overlooked, role that civil society can play in combating terrorism without compromising their ongoing important work and the challenges and the opportunities for expanding engagement between civil society and the UN system on counterterrorism and related issues. The report also looks at the impact that counterterrorism measures have had on civil society and the need for the United Nations to promote the role of civil society, including in the context of Strategy implementation. Download the PDF |
 Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean RegionSeptember 2008 - By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: This report provides an overview of issues relevant to the implementation of the UN Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It focuses on the role of the UN and regional and subregional bodies, in particular the Organization of American States, and looks at how counterterrorism cooperation within and between these bodies could be strengthened, and how the Strategy could be used to further not only this cooperation but also broader regional efforts to combat terrorism. Download the PDF |
 Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in East AfricaJune 2008 - By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: This report provides an analysis of issues and challenges relevant to the implementation of the UN Strategy in East Africa and an overview of the Strategy-related counterterrorism efforts of some of the key stakeholders in the subregion. It offers a series of recommendations aimed at states, the United Nations, and regional and subregional bodies on how to further the implementation of the Strategy in East Africa with a view to strengthening counterterrorism cooperation in this volatile subregion. Download the PDF |
 Human Rights and the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism StrategyJanuary 2008 - By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and Jason Ipe Description: This report addresses the challenge of ensuring that the human rights–based approach to combating terrorism enshrined in the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy is mainstreamed through the relevant UN and regional bodies and programs and at the national level. It provides specific recommendations on what the UN, region and sub-regional bodies, and civil society can do to carry forward the human rights elements of the UN Strategy. Download the PDF |
 Handbook on Human Rights Compliance While Countering Terrorism January 2008 - By Alex Conte Description:The handbook was produced for the Center by Dr. Alex Conte who is a reader in law at the University of Southampton and a member of the Advisory Panel of Experts to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism. The handbook provides practical guidance to decision-makers on what human rights compliance means and how it is to be achieved in the context of counterterrorism law and practice. Download the PDF |
 Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Southern AfricaNovember 2007 - By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: The report focuses on the challenges of and priorities for implementing the UN's Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in southern Africa. It considers how the UN Strategy can be used as a guide for governments in and outside the sub-region, the UN, and other multilateral bodies and civil society to contribute more effectively to addressing the terrorist threat and as a basis for improving the overall coordination and cooperation in the sub-region in combating terrorism Download the PDF |
 Building Global Alliances in the Fight against TerrorismNovember 2007 - Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand Description: Commissioned by the Better World Campaign of the UN Foundation, "Building Global Alliances in the Fight Against Terrorism" outlines steps the next administration should take during its first one hundred days to improve international cooperation against terrorism, repair its damaged reputation on the international stage, and protect America from another major terrorist attack Download the PDF |
 The UN Security Council's Counterterrorism Program: What Lies Ahead? October 2007 - Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and Jason Ipe Description: The culmination of the “Security Council Counterterrorism Review Project,” which was co-sponsored by the International Peace Academy and the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, this report highlights the successes and shortcomings of the post-September 2001 Security Council counterterrorism program and the steps that can be taken to improve it in particular the work of the Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and its Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED). |
 Implementing the United Nations General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Asia-Pacific March 2007 - Alistair Millar, Eric Rosand, and Jason Ipe Description:The Asia-Pacific, and Southeast Asia in particular, faces serious threats from terrorist groups that have demonstrated an ability to exploit the region’s geographical and institutional vulnerabilities, large areas insufficiently controlled by national governments, intra- and inter-state rivalries, local insurgencies, and a relative lack of formal multilateral security cooperation. This report looks at the challenges and prospects for implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the region. Download the PDF |
 Report on Standards and Best Practices for Improving States Implementation of UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism MandatesSeptember 2006 - Alistair Millar et al. Description: This report provides an assessment of core counterterrorism standards and best practices. Using UN Security Council Resolution 1373 as its basis, the report identifies best practices in three broad areas related to the resolution: combating terrorist financing, improving legal practice and law enforcement, and enhancing territorial control. Download the PDF |
Policy Briefs
 Strategy to Reach, Empower, and Educate Teenagers (STREET): A Case Study in Government-Community Partnership and Direct Intervention to Counter Violent ExtremismDecember 2011 - By Jack Barclay Jack Barclay, profiles a community counterradicalization program in the United Kingdom known as STREET (Strategy to Reach, Empower, and Educate Teenagers) as a case study of that country’s Prevent strategy. The policy brief examines how STREET operates; why it appears to be so successful; and attempts to identify good-practice lessons that might be applicable in nascent counterradicalization strategies and programs in development by other states. Download PDF |
 Transnational Threats: The Criminalization of West Africa and the SahelDecember 2011 - By James Cockayne As part of the Center’s expanding work on transnational threats, Co-Director James Cockayne, examines the effects of dirty money on security and governance in West Africa and the Sahel. Illicit money, he argues, particularly from trafficking in drugs, is rapidly undermining the region’s political and economic governance, infecting legislatures, police forces, militaries, courts, and presidential offices, as well as chambers of commerce, in countries across the region. This policy brief considers the nature and provenance of these problems and some unorthodox ideas to tackle them. Download PDF |
 Monitoring and Evaluation Tools for Counterterrorism Program EffectivenessSeptember 2011 - By Anthony Ellis, Andrew Cleary, Michael Innes, and Martine Zeuthen In the latest in a series of policy briefs, Integrity Research and Consultancy presents innovative tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating counterterrorism programming. The brief looks at three specific monitoring and evaluation tool kits in common use among the research and development communities, and how, through their use, practitioners may gain new insights in measuring the effectiveness of prevention efforts. Download PDF |
 Countering Violent Extremism Among Kenyan Muslim YouthSeptember 2011 - By Hassan Ole Naado In this policy brief, Hassan Ole Naado, founder and CEO of the Kenya Muslim Youth Alliance, looks at how a culture of peaceful cohabitation between diverse Kenyan communities has been threatened in recent years by terrorism and violent extremism. Mr. Naado describes efforts to prevent radicalization in the country, particularly amongst Kenya’s youth, and explores opportunities for expanding counter-radicalization programming throughout the region. For further information contact, James Cockayne, Co-Director at jcockayne@globalct.org. |
| Expert Spotlight Terrorism Prevention: Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom National Experience With Richard Evans International counterterrorism efforts focus increasingly on preventing terrorism before it occurs. In its recent Resolution 1963 (2010), the UN Security Council mandated its Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate to work with Member States to develop mechanisms to address “the factors that lead to terrorist activities”. Increasingly, Member States are looking to coordinate support for efforts to build counterterrorism prevention capacities on the ground. The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, in a variety of programs, projects, and expert interviews such as this one, seeks to foster discussion of what it means to build terrorism prevention capacities – and in particular, what it means for the UN to support such activities. Download PDF |
 Reorienting Cultural Production Policies: Ideas to Dissuade Youth from Joining Violent Extremist GroupsApril 2011 – By M. Karen Walker In the latest in a series of policy briefs by Center staff and other contributing experts, Karen Walker, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, explores ideas for programs to counter violent extremist ideologies and approaches to dissuade youth from joining violent extremist groups. Her brief delves into factors of social alienation and discrimination that increase identity-seeking and examines the salience and resonance of violent extremist groups’ appeals to identity seekers. It concludes by exploring the potential role of cultural production policies as inoculation as well as diversion strategies and by offering some additional steps to effectively reorient cultural sector policies and reforms to reduce youth vulnerability to violent extremist and terrorist group radicalization. Download the PDF |
 Use of the Internet for Counter Terrorist PurposesFebruary 2011 – By Liat Shetret Center Programs Officer, Liat Shetret, looks at the role of the internet in violent radicalization. Terrorists increasingly draw inspiration, reinforcement, support, and guidance from a variety of on-line sources. Shetret provides an overview of challenges this poses to effective counterterrorism, while arguing that the internet also offers a potent tool for countering violent radicalization. The brief offers key stakeholders including multilateral institutions, states, civil society organizations, the media and the private sector examples of how they can use the internet more effectively to prevent and counter violent radicalization. Download the PDF |
 Engaging For Peace: What are the Legal Limits to Working with Terrorists?February 2011 – By Noah Bialostozky Noah Bialostozky, a New York-based attorney working on international law and counterterrorism issues, examines the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder and its potential impact on public and private actors that engage with terrorist organizations to promote peace and development. Bialostozky notes that decision has left many international actors uncertain as to whether their routine activities, particularly in conflict situations, could result in criminal prosecution or a civil suit under U.S. law. This uncertainty, he suggests, is exacerbated by international counterterrorism measures that require states to prohibit a broad range of support activities for terrorist organizations, without requiring exemptions for humanitarian, development, or peacekeeping actors. Bialostozky argues that there is a need for greater clarity in both U.S. and international law to isolate those that should be prosecuted for material support and to guide the conduct of those who in their efforts to promote peace and development have to engage terrorist organizations. Download the PDF |
 Terrorism, Crime, and Conflict: Exploiting the Difference Among Transnational Threats?February 2011 – By Britt Sloan and James Cockayne Britt Sloan, a Visiting Research Fellow, and Center Co-Director, James Cockayne, offer eight targeted policy recommendations for combating the convergence of terrorism, crime, and politics. Rather than simply warning about the potential interaction and synergy of these transnational threats, the brief explores possibilities for exploiting their divergences. Drawing on insights from the criminological, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, development, and sociological arenas, the authors offer a wide array of policy ideas relating for example to security sector reform, post-conflict economic policy, strategic communications, and law enforcement strategies. Download the PDF |
 Terrorism and Other Transnational Threats in the Sahel: What Role for the EU?September 2010 – By Thomas Renard In the sixth in a series of policy briefs by the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and collaborating experts, Thomas Renard, Senior Associate Fellow in the Brussels office offers his thoughts on improving regional counterterrorism cooperation in the Sahel and in particular the positive role that the EU might play. Download the PDF |
 The Need for Enhanced Regional Responses to Terrorism in South AsiaDecember 2009 - By General V.P. Malik In the fifth in a series of policy briefs by the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and collaborating experts, Center advisory council member, General Ved Malik, offers his thoughts on improving regional counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia. Writing from his experience as a former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army and current president of the Institute of Security Studies at the Observer Research Foundation, Malik argues for a new regional approach to counterterrorism in South Asia and offers lessons from India’s experience. Download the PDF |
 Global Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1540: An Enhanced UN Response is NeededOctober 2009 - By Eric Rosand This policy brief examines the work of the United Nations to promote implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540, which is aimed at preventing weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery from getting into the hands of non-state actors. It argues that the capacity of the United Nations to promote implementation of the resolution, in particular that of the Security Council’s 1540 Committee and its Group of Experts, should be strengthened and provides specific recommendations for how that should be done. Download the PDF |
 The UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Terrorism Prevention Branch: Strengths and Challenges AheadJuly 2009 - By Eric Rosand This policy brief examines the efforts of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Terrorism Prevention Branch, which provides various forms of counterterrorism-related assistance to countries to help them join and implement the universal instruments against terrorism and strengthen the capacity of their national criminal justice systems to deal with terrorism. Download the PDF |
 The G8’s Counterterrorism Action GroupMay 2009 - By Eric Rosand 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 |
 From Adoption to Action: The UN’s Role in Implementing its Global Counter-Terrorism StrategyApril 2009 - By Eric Rosand This 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 |
Articles "State fragility, organized crime and peacebuilding: towards a more strategic approach," Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre NOREF ReportSeptember 2011 - By James Cockayne Description: Fragile states offer sites of competitive advantage for militant organisations, criminal networks and political leaders alike. Collaboration among them may benefit all three – financing militancy, protecting crime and securing political control. Yet the international community currently lacks a coherent approach to tackling organised crime in conflict-affected communities. In this Working Paper written for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (www.peacebuilding.no), Center Co-Director James Cockayne argues that there are normative, analytical and practical obstacles to the development of an effective response. Cockayne offers a series of practical recommendations for developing a more strategic response. Download the PDF
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 "Multilateral Counterterrorism: Harmonizing Political Direction and Technical Expertise," The Stanley Foundation's Policy Analysis BriefDecember 2010 - By Alistair Millar Description: Multilateral cooperation on counterterrorism offers a window into the roles of agenda-setters at the top political levels of government, and the working-level experts whose command of intricate practicalities is so essential to implementation. As multilateral counterterrorism has drawn over one hundred international agencies, councils, and offices into the effort, clear and effective collaboration between the two levels has become that much more important. The synchronization of international objectives in the UN global counterterrorism strategy has created an opening both for better technical and political multilateral coordination. A risk remains, though, that by focusing on a short list of priority areas—such as countering violent extremism in Yemen—the international community might be giving short shrift to other regions where political violence could also threaten future peace and security. Input from technical experts is essential to keep those who set the agenda from putting all the attention on a narrow set of current hot spots and missing opportunities to prevent future hubs of terrorism from emerging. Download the PDF  "Developing Regional Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia,"West Point CTC Sentinel December 2009 - By Alistair Millar Description: In light of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai and numerous terrorist attacks since, this article looks at the pressing need and prospects for developing a regional approach to intelligence sharing, law enforcement, and other forms of counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia. It highlights some of the challenges to developing effective regional counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia by looking at the counterterrorism efforts of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It argues that South Asian states and their external partners need to move beyond well intended statements to focus on building practical counterterrorism cooperation at the technical level. Specifically, it recommends the establishment of a new regional counterterrorism forum for cooperation, with the necessary expertise and mandate to provide training and implement related counterterrorism capacity building efforts in South Asia, arguing that building the capacity of, and trust between, law enforcement and judicial officials and other technical counterterrorism practitioners in the region and could lead to higher levels of political cooperation against terrorism. Download the PDF "Countering Terrorism and Building Cooperation in North Africa: The Potential Significance of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy," Real Instituto Elcano December 2009 - By Eric Rosand Description: Despite the considerable efforts by governments in North Africa, many of which pre-date the attacks of 11 September 2001, the terrorist threat there remains acute. The rapid growth of entwined transnational terrorist and other criminal networks operating between North Africa and the Sahel may be one of the most immediate causes of instability in the region. After providing an overview of the terrorist threats and vulnerabilities confronting North Africa, as well the region’s capacities to address the threat and obstacles to cooperation, this policy brief will highlight the potential significance of the UN Strategy for the region. Among other things, it will explain how this UN instrument could contribute to a recalibration of counterterrorism efforts in North Africa and to a strengthening of cooperation both among regional stakeholders and between the region and external partners including the EU, the UN and the US. Click here to read.  "Enhancing Counterterrorism Cooperation in Eastern Africa,"African Security Review June 2009 - By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and Jason Ipe Description: This article begins with an overview of the terrorist threat and vulnerabilities in eastern Africa and the capacity of governments to respond. It then looks at the response at subregional level and what has developed into the primary mechanism for fostering deeper sub-regional cooperation, ICPAT, and how they may be improved. It also examines how the United Nations can help to strengthen that cooperation and the opportunity offered by the September 2006 UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
 "Combating WMD Terrorism: The Short-Sighted US-led Multilateral Response,"The International Spectator April 2009 - By Eric Rosand Description: This article provides an overview of the U.S.-led multilateral response to the threat of WMD terrorism. The piece argues that the Bush administration’s preference for informal, ad hoc arrangements over existing multilateral frameworks, while ensuring a rapid initial response to threat of WMD terrorism in the wake of 9/11, has also impeded efforts to build and sustain global support to respond to that threat.  "Enhancing Counterterrorism Cooperation in Southern Africa"African Security Review Volume 17, Number 2, 2008 - By Eric Rosand and Jason Ipe Description: This article provides an overview of the terrorist threat and vulnerabilities in southern Africa and the capacity of the subregion to respond. It focuses on mechanisms of subregional counterterrorism cooperation and how they may be improved. It argues that an effective response to the threat will require the engagement of a range of stakeholders with technical, financial, and other resources including not just states but regional and sub-regional bodies, the UN system, and other donors and assistance providers as well as civil society. Download the PDF |
 "Fighting Terrorists, Targeting the Roots of Contemporary Terrorism"The InterDependent Winter 2007/2008 - By Eric Rosand Description: In the Winter issue of the The InterDependent, as part of a series on "What the UN Can and Cannot Do Alone," Senior Fellow, Eric Rosand, argues that despite the UN's inability to define terrorism and other shortcomings, it has a crucial role in addressing the multi-dimensional threat of terrorism, namely in establishing norms, facilitating technical cooperation between states, and in providing assistance to improve the capacity of all states to combat terrorism. Download the PDF |
 "Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Asia-Pacific"Asian Security Volume 3, Number 3, 2007 - By Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand Description: This article discusses the challenge of implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. The article starts with an analysis of the Strategy itself and then examines the nature of the threat facing areas within such a vast and diverse region. It then turns to the roles relevant regional and sub-regional bodies and the different parts of the UN system can play in strengthening implementation and how the Strategy might be a vehicle for creating a more coherent regional response to the terrorist threat. |
 "Global Terrorism: Multilateral Responses to an Extraordinary Threat,"International Peace Academy Coping with Crisis Working Paper Series April 2007 - By Eric Rosand Description: This article examines the status—and prospects—of multilateral responses to global terrorism. It outlines what is known, and perceived, about the nature of the threat posed by contemporary international terrorism. It discusses current efforts directed at managing this threat, focusing on initiatives in the multilateral realm and points to possible scenarios for the future development of a more coordinated and coherent international response to terrorism. Download the PDF |
| "Renewing the US-UN Partnership against Terrorism," UN Foundation Insights 2007 - By Eric Rosand Description: Senior Fellow, Eric Rosand, argues that “in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the US succeeded in reaching out to the UN, in particular the Security Council, to help globalize the ‘war on terror,’” but that in recent years US attention has waned, letting “much of the critical international counter-terrorism machinery, which it was instrumental in creating, atrophy.” Rosand points out, however, that the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, unanimously adopted by the General Assembly in September 2006, offers the US the opportunity to reassume its leadership role on the issue and urges the new UN Secretary-General and US Ambassador to the UN to renew the US-UN partnership against terrorism. Download the PDF |
 "The UN-Led Multilateral Institutional Response to Jihadist Terrorism: Is a Global Counterterrorism Body Needed?" Journal of Conflict & Security LawJanuary 2007 - By Eric Rosand Download the PDF |
Books “In Somalia, Banking as Usual is Rather Unusual,” Essay in A Global Agenda: Issues Before the United Nations 2011-2012August 2011 – By Liat Shetret Description: Sending money home is a common practice across diasporas globally, but remittances in the Somali community are different. They are often referred to as the ‘lifeline’ of Somalia by development and aid agencies, yet at the same time they are perceived as a security risk by counterterrorism and security organizations. This short essay offers a brief overview of Somali money transfer businesses and the challenges of regulating them across jurisdictions. It concludes that the international community should and can do more to look at the problem from both developmental and security perspectives, so that remittances can continue to flow, even as they comply with international safeguards. A Global Agenda is a compilation of essays by academics, policy experts, United Nations experts and journalists on the most important geopolitical issues in the world today. It is annually published by the United Nations Association. Order from UNA-USA |
 Uniting Against Terror2007 MIT Press - David Cortright and George Lopez (eds) Description: Uniting Against Terror examines and evaluates post-9/11 cooperative nonmilitary responses to the global terrorist threat, with a particular focus on efforts of the United Nations, the Financial Action Task Force, the European Union, and a wide array of multilateral institutions. Order from MIT Press |
 Allied Against Terrorism 2006 Century Foundation - By Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand Description: Allied Against Terrorism takes a critical look at the UN Security Council's efforts to assume the leading role among international organizations involved in counterterrorism. The authors enumerate a series of structural changes that could strengthen Security Council-led efforts in the short-term but argue that over the long term a new international body dedicated to counterterrorism may be needed. The authors consider the merits of different models for such a body and outline the essential characteristics such an entity would require to succeed. Order a copy of the book |
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