Counter-Terrorism Committee holds open briefing on developing counter-terrorism strategies

BMUSONI — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:07:00 +0000

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Security Council resolution 1963 (2010) marked a significant shift in the Council’s approach to counter-terrorism. Prior to 2010, the Council and its subsidiary counter-terrorism bodies had focused primarily on security-related, legal, and punitive measures, whereas the new slant reflected the recognition by the Security Council that a more expansive approach might be more effective.

As part of these efforts, on 31 October 2017 the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee organized an open informal briefing on “Developing national and regional comprehensive and integrated counter-terrorism strategies (lessons learned).” The briefing featured presentations by CTED, as well as from the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism.

In its presentation, CTED outlined three key effects Security Council resolutions 1963 (2010) and 2129 (2013) had on the Committee’s and CTED’s work. First, the adoption of both resolutions led to a more expansive approach to achieving objectives of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005). Second, they encouraged CTED to pay “attention to factors that lead to terrorist activities,” thereby increasingly aligning the Council’s counter-terrorism measures with those of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Lastly, the resolutions enabled CTED to engage with non-governmental stakeholders, including civil society, academia, and the media. Ultimately, this engagement should inform and feed into the development of comprehensive, integrated national and regional counter-terrorism strategies, as well as implementing mechanisms that include attention to factors that lead to terrorist activities.

Through open dialogue, Member States made interventions, shared their current counter-terrorism strategies and offered their observations of good practices. As CTED expressed during the gathering, the briefing demonstrated “the transparency of the Committee’s work in areas of crucial importance to Member States’ counter-terrorism efforts” to a wide audience of Member and Observer States, UN entities, intergovernmental organizations, and specialized agencies.

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CTED facilitates Tunis workshop on countering terrorism and violent extremism

BMUSONI — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:03:00 +0000

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The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) facilitated a workshop on “Strengthening Community Engagement in Implementing Security Council resolutions 1624 (2005) and 2178 (2014) and the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy” in Tunis, Tunisia, from 19 to 20 July 2017.

The workshop was organized in cooperation with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) – The Hague and the Human Security Collective, with the support of the Government of Tunisia and funding from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT).

The event brought together representatives of Tunisia’s National Commission on the Fight against Terrorism (Commission Nationale de la Lutte contre le Terrorisme, CNLT); representatives of Tunisian ministries; civil-society and private-sector representatives; and international experts, including from other North African States. Representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also participated.

The workshop featured a presentation by the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who explained measures taken by the city to promote greater engagement with local communities, particularly youth, in countering radicalization leading to terrorism, including through job training and civic-engagement programmes.

CTED referred to the relevant Security Council resolutions identifying engagement with communities and other social actors as part of an effective approach to countering incitement and violent extremism.

Speakers also underlined the value of comprehensive approaches that took account of the underlying conditions conducive to terrorism and violent extremism, as well as the need to ensure respect for human rights and the rule of law in all counter-terrorism efforts.

The event provided an opportunity to explore ways in which Government bodies, civil society and the private sector can cooperate most effectively in implementing strategies to address the full range of counter-terrorism and CVE issues, including the question of factors that lead to terrorist activities, as highlighted in Security Council resolution 2129 (2013).

The United Nations Acting Resident Coordinator informed participants that the United Nations Country Team in Tunisia was ready to support all relevant efforts taken by the Government.

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CTED facilitates Tunis workshop on countering terrorism and violent extremism

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