The meeting, which was facilitated by CGCC and focused on East Africa, was the third regional workshop in a process that included a series of meetings to discuss the risk of terrorist abuse of the nonprofit sector and to share good practices and foster cooperation in responding to that risk...
At the invitation of the Danish Foreign Ministry, CGCC Co-Director James Cockayne briefed the EU Council’s counterterrorism configuration on possible counterterrorism strategies for East Africa. Cockayne highlighted the work of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Security Sector Program and CGCC collaborations with IGAD on the ground over the last...
Twenty-one Ethiopian officials received three days of advanced training on anti–money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and other economic crimes. The training was conducted on behalf of CGCC by the Danish State Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crimes Jens Madsen and Jens Kauffeld Andreasen, head of the Danish Financial Intelligence...
As part of CGCC’s expanding work on transnational threats, this policy brief examines the effects of “dirty money” on security and governance in West Africa and the Sahel. Illicit money, particularly from drug trafficking, is rapidly undermining the region’s political and economic governance, infecting legislatures, police forces, militaries, courts, and...
The meeting, which was facilitated by CGCC and focused on the Asia-Pacific region, was the second regional workshop in a process that includes a series of meetings to discuss the risk of terrorist abuse of the nonprofit sector and to share good practices and foster cooperation in responding to that...
This essay offers a brief overview of Somali money transfer businesses and the challenges of regulating them across jurisdictions. It concludes that the international community should and can do more to look at the problem from developmental and security perspectives so that remittances can continue to flow, even as they...
The meeting, which was facilitated by CGCC and focused on South and Southeast Asia, was the first regional workshop in a process that includes a series of meetings to discuss the risk of terrorist abuse of the nonprofit sector and to share good practices and foster cooperation in responding to...
The meeting, which was facilitated by CGCC, was the first in a process that includes a series of regional workshops to discuss the risk of terrorist financing in the nonprofit sector and to share good practices and foster cooperation in responding to that risk. The meeting was convened under the...
CGCC hosted a discussion on international efforts to combat terrorist financing with Michael Jacobson from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Elizabeth Joyce from the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, and Richard Lalonde from the International Monetary Fund. They identified some of the successes and challenges in international efforts...
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