Publications
 "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 |
Reports Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in East AfricaJune 2008 - By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar Description: The report, which is the culmination of a project funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 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 UN, 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 |
 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 - By 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 |
Articles
"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 32007 - 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
 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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