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Strengthening Ethiopia’s Capacity to Counter Illicit Financial Flows
Since the passage of its first anti-money laundering-relevant law in 2009, Ethiopia has made significant progress in strengthening anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) legislative frameworks and technical expertise. As a result of these achievements, Ethiopia was removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s ongoing AML/CFT monitoring...
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Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons
With increasing numbers of terrorism offenders in custodial settings across the globe, effectively managing this specific prison population and ensuring that violent extremist radicalization does not spread through the system have become key priorities for many governments. Certain prisons seem to have become incubators for radicalization and recruitment, while others...
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Strengthening Regional Capacities to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism in the IGAD Region and the Greater Horn of Africa
Over the last decade, a consensus has grown among governments, experts, and civil society actors that efforts to counter terrorism without acknowledging and addressing the drivers of violent extremism are likely to be counterproductive, and could increase political marginalization of communities and make vulnerable segments of those communities susceptible to...
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Understanding Bank De-risking and its Effects on Financial Inclusion
The Global Center started an exploratory study on the growing trend of de-risking in the financial services industry—the closure of accounts for clients perceived as “high risk” such as money transfer businesses, nongovernment organizations, and correspondent banks, among others. The purpose of the study is to identify how the recent...
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Countering Violent Extremism in West Africa and the Sahel: Strengthening Regional Prevention Capacities
In West Africa and the Sahel, armed conflicts over the past three years in Libya and Mali have exacerbated existing security and development challenges in the region, such as unemployment, political and social exclusion, organized crime, drug trafficking, and poor service delivery, due in part to a lack of capacity...
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The Roles of Women in Countering Violent Extremism
The Global Center on Cooperative Security and Hedayah, are jointly developing and producing a publication, in the form of an edited volume, intended to offer an innovative and diverse set of perspectives reflecting on the roles of women in terrorism and countering violent extremism. ...
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Managing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Violent Extremist Offenders
The Rome Memorandum on Good Practices for Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Violent Extremist Offenders and the Additional Good Practices on the Challenges and Strategies on the Management of Violent Extremist Detainees adopted by the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) provide authorities with a set of good practices and strategies when handling...
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Strengthening Support to Victims of Terrorism
While attention in the media and public discourse in the aftermath of terrorist attacks often focuses on the perpetrators and governmental countermeasures, victims and survivors of terrorism are obviously the most directly affected. To further advance implementation of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) Madrid Memorandum on Good Practices for Assistance...
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Promoting GCTF Good Practices on the Role of the Judiciary in Adjudicating Terrorism Offenses within a Rule of Law Framework
Overburdened courts, protracted legal proceedings, unreliable witness testimony resulting from inadequate protection mechanisms, and insufficient and poor forensic evidence are but a few of the obstacles that the judiciaries and their governments endeavor to overcome. Under the auspices of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), the Global Center will design and...
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Advancing Rule of Law-Based Counterterrorism Practices in the Criminal Justice Sector
The GCTF’s Rabat Memorandum on Good Practices for Effective Counterterrorism Practice in the Criminal Justice Sector outlines a series of 15 actionable good practices for implementing rule of law-based criminal justice measures to more effectively counter terrorism. The Global Center, in close cooperation with the GCTF, is taking stock of...
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