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From Adoption to Action: The UN’s Role in Implementing Its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
This policy brief examines the role of the UN system in carrying forward implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It highlights some UN 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...
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Building Stronger Partnerships to Prevent Terrorism: Recommendations for President Obama
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...
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The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Regional and Subregional Bodies: Strengthening a Critical Partnership
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...
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International Process on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: A Compilation of Key Documents
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...
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Civil Society and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges
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...
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Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
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...
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Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in East Africa
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...
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Human Rights and the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Hopes and Challenges
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...
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