This report provides an overview of the evolving terrorism threat in North Africa and analyzes how states in the subregion working with external partners, including the United Nations, European Union, and United States, can improve subregional counterterrorism-related cooperation. In particular, the 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.
The report is based on a series of consultations with representatives from states in the subregion, the United Nations, and relevant regional and subregional organizations as well as nongovernmental experts. Those consultations included a meeting cohosted by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) at its headquarters in Rabat, which included counterterrorism focal points and other representatives from states in the subregion. The project builds on recommendations made at a November 2007 conference held by ISESCO, the United Nations, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the Tunisian government in Tunis.
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Intended to assist practitioners in using the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition Conventions, this reference manual includes descriptions of the conventions’ provisions as well as practical legal issues and difficulties that practitioners—prosecutors, government legal advisers, law enforcement officers, or judges—may face, as well as possible solutions. In addition, the manual includes the complete text of both conventions and a reference guide to other resources on mutual legal assistance and extradition.
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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 takes stock of the group’s efforts to date and identifies a number of short- and long-term reforms that CTAG members should consider adopting to enhance the group’s effectiveness.
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 U.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.
This report discusses the contributions that regional and subregional bodies can make in implementing the United Nations 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 on maximizing the contributions of regional and subregional bodies to Strategy implementation and to counterterrorism efforts in general, as well as improving cooperation between those bodies and the United Nations.
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 with the support of CGCC. The focus of the process was assessing overall UN contributions to the fight against terrorism and how to make UN institutions more relevant to national counterterrorism strategies and better able to support implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
This report explores the important and often overlooked role that civil society can play in combating terrorism without compromising their ongoing important work and examines 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 implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
This report provides an overview of issues relevant to the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It focuses on the role of the United Nations 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.
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.
This report addresses the challenge of ensuring that the human rights–based approach to combating terrorism enshrined in the United Nations 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 United Nations, region and subregional bodies, and civil society can do to carry forward the human rights elements of the Strategy.
