About the GCTF

The Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) is an informal, apolitical, multilateral counterterrorism platform. It is small, nimble, inclusive, and consensus-based. Its overarching mission is to reduce the vulnerability of people worldwide to terrorism by mobilizing expertise and resources to prevent, combat, and prosecute terrorist acts and counter incitement and recruitment to terrorism. 

The Forum brings together policymakers and practitioners from around the world to share experiences and expertise, and to develop practical, publicly available tools and strategies on how to prevent and counter the evolving terrorist threat. The GCTF is currently co-chaired by Egypt and the European Union. 

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News

Using Criminal Justice Tools to Counter REMVE

Using Criminal Justice Tools to Counter REMVE

20 September 2022

The GCTF “REMVE” Toolkit Initiative Leads, the United States and Norway, and the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) hosted a side event in New York. It highlighted the criminal justice tools that governments are using, including in coordination with civil society and community actors, to counter racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism.

 

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Women & Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism

Women & Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism

20 September 2022

The GCTF East Africa Working Group held a side event on the margins of the Twentieth GCTF Coordinating Committee in New York. The event sought to promote gender-sensitive approaches to leadership, policymaking and processes related to criminal justice responses to terrorism in East Africa. Read more »
Maritime Security and Terrorist Travel in Africa

Maritime Security and Terrorist Travel in Africa

7 September 2022

Following the launch of the GCTF Addendum to the GCTF New York Memorandum on Good Practices for Interdicting Terrorist Travel, the FTF WG Co-Chairs, Jordan and the United States, held the first workshop of a series which highlights counterterrorism practice considerations, challenges, and opportunities.

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Private Sector Helps Youth Hone Digital Skills

Private Sector Helps Youth Hone Digital Skills

In line with the GCTF good practice of engaging the private sector to increase vocational and technical capacities of youth, GCERF partnered with IHS Towers in Nigeria to train young people in basic information and communications technology skills. The training certified 120 young people over four days in Kano state.                                       

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Activities

Nexus between Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism Initiative - Fourth Regional Meeting

Nexus between Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism Initiative - Fourth Regional Meeting

8-9 May 2018

Endorsed at the GCTF Eighth Ministerial Plenary Meeting in New York on 20 September 2017, and supported by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), the Initiative aims to develop a set of internationally recognized non-binding good practices, which can serve as the basis for international engagement, assistance and training to address the potential challenge posed by the nexus between terrorism and transnational organized crime, and which can help authorities at the global, national and local level to solve this problem.

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