New podcasts on P/CVE online and evidence in terrorism cases!

We have developed two new podcasts on core GCTF documents: the Abuja Recommendations and the Zurich-London Recommendations. The Abuja Recommendations aim to help investigators and prosecutors build a solid case based on strong and admissible evidence in terrorism cases, while the Zurich-London Recommendations outline good practices to prevent and counter violent extremist content on the Internet.

EAWG Mapping Report 2020 published!

The Capacity-building in the East Africa Region Working Group published its Mapping Report for 2020. The Mapping Report provides a summary of the Working Group's activities for the year. This year's Report profiles three local-level organizations in Kenya that are working with the GCTF-Inspired Institutions to develop and implement preventing and countering violent extremism conducive to terrorism (P/CVE) interventions in their communities.

The Mapping Report is available in three languages: Arabic, English and French.

New interactive content!

Documents of the GCTF Lifecycle Toolkit are now available in an interactive format as well. Here you can find some of our documents as interactive infographics, where you can navigate through the different elements of our good practice documents, guidelines and recommendations on prosecuting terrorists, rehabilitation and reintegration of foreign terrorist fighters, as well as the important role of psychologists and religious leaders can play in this process.

New videos on the GCTF's work on foreign terrorist fighters, their returning families and homegrown terrorism!

Short videos are now available that explain the GCTF's work on providing non-binding good practices for States on how to more effectively respond to the foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) phenomenon, how to address the threat of returning and relocating families of foreign terrorist fighters and on ways to prevent, detect, intervene and respond to homegrown terrorism.

You can check out all GCTF videos here!

Four years of GCTF Co-Chairmanship

The Kingdoms of Morocco and the Netherlands published a Legacy Paper of their work within the frameworks of their Co-Chairmanship of the GCTF between 2015 - 2019. The Legacy Paper highlights the former Co-Chairs' main achievements, as well as the strategic priorities of their Co-Chairmanship.

The Legacy Paper is available in Arabic, English and French.

Ministerial Statements from the Tenth GCTF Ministerial Plenary Meeting

Please see below the Ministerial Statements of GCTF Members, GCTF-Inspired Institutions and the United Nations delivered at the Tenth GCTF Ministerial Plenary Meeting held in New York, United States on 25 September 2019:

Virtual Global Workshops on the Global Implications of Terrorist Travel in the Maritime Domain

21 and 28 July 2020

The United States, lead of the Maritime Security and Terrorist Travel Initiative organized a series of Virtual Global Workshops on the Global Implications of Terrorist Travel in the Maritime Domain. The Virtual Global Workshops consisted of two webinars, covering the topics of the:

Role of International Law, and National Law and Policies, in Preventing, Countering, and Responding to Maritime Terrorist Travel
Tools and Responses for Countering Maritime Terrorist Travel & Relevant Public and Private Bodies

Virtual Consultations on the Legal, Policy, and Operational Implications of Watchlists

June-July 2020

Co-Leads of the Watchlisting Initiative, the United Nations and the United States of America, organized a series of Virtual Consultations on the Legal, Policy, and Operational Implications of Watchlists. The webinars, held through the course of June and July, covered the following topics:

Definitions, Scopes, and Objectives of Terrorist Watchlists & Information Gathering;
Legal Frameworks Regarding Terrorist Watchlists & Thresholds for Listings;
Implementation of Watchlists and Independent Oversight & Information Management and Access.

Review Meeting of the Initiative on Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes and International Crimes

9-10 June 2020

GCTF Criminal Justice and Rule of Law (CJ-ROL) Working Group Co-Chairs, Nigeria and Switzerland, hosted the Review Meeting of the Initiative on Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes and International Crimes, organized in the form of two webinars. The Review Meeting provided an opportunity to add input to the draft Addendum to The Hague Good Practices on the Nexus between Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism: Focus on Criminal Justice.

Initiative on National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Virtual Consultation

20-23 April 2020

The GCTF Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group organised a virtual consultation through an online survey and a series of webinars under its Initiative on National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. The objective of this Initiative is to develop a Good Practices document to assist countries in enhancing national-local cooperation (NLC) across preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) issues. When finalized, these Good Practices can be used to contribute to the development and implementation of national action plans, sub-national action plans, and capacity-building programs at the national and/or sub-national levels.

Initiative on Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes and International Crimes Second Expert Meeting

11-13 February 2020

SAINT JULIAN'S - Malta - Criminal Justice and Rule of Law (CJ-ROL) Working Group Co-Chairs, Nigeria and Switzerland, hosted the Second Expert Meeting within the Initiative on Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes and International Crimes that focused on the Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, the Financing of Terrorism, Illicit Trafficking in Goods and Maritime Crimes.