Global Center’s Latest Projects
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Promoting Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia
Responding to the need, the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) launched a process aimed at facilitating and catalyzing cooperation among judges, prosecutors, police officers, and other counterterrorism-related officials in South Asia. Since 2010, the Global Center, with support from Denmark, Australia, the United States, and other governments,...
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Leading a Criminal Justice Response to Terrorism
The Global Center and the Institute for Security Studies, with expert assistance from the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and supported by the European Commission, launched a project in cooperation with the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law aimed at creating a sustainable, nonpolitical forum for supreme...
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Peace Operations and Countering Violent Extremism
The Global Center and the International Peace Institute (IPI) are developing innovative analysis on the potential intersections between peace operations and efforts aimed at preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) with support from the governments of Norway and France. Research and analysis on this issue remains relatively underdeveloped as commentary...
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Preventing and Responding to Violent Extremism in South and Central Asia
The Global Center will work with partners from South and Central Asia to develop pilot programs for preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE). The initiatives will be selected through a competitive application process and successful applicants will implement the initiatives directly, in consultation with the Global Center. The project aims to contribute...
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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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