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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Overcoming Trauma and Becoming a Peace Champion

Overcoming Trauma and Becoming a Peace Champion

In Kenya, GCERF, a GCTF Inspired Institution, supports safe spaces for women to overcome trauma. This story follows a woman who overcame accusations of terrorism and became a peace champion in her community.               

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Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE

Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE

5 April 2022

Australia and Indonesia, Co-Chairs of the GCTF CVE Working Group, hosted the second workshop under the Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE: Challenges, Recommendations and Emerging Good Practices Initiative. Supported by GCERF, participants came together to continue the conversation around funding and enabling P/CVE initiatives at the community level.

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Adjudicating Terrorism Offenses

Adjudicating Terrorism Offenses

This infographic is intended for policymakers and practitioners who wish to learn more about good practices when handling a terrorism case. This infographic is interactive and features responsive elements when clicking or hovering over them.                                               

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Exploring scenarios for the GCTF “REMVE” Toolkit

Exploring scenarios for the GCTF “REMVE” Toolkit

1-2 March & 9-10 March 2022

Following the launch of the “REMVE” Toolkit Initiative, the GCTF hosted a series of workshops to dive into the development of this practical resource. Using scenario-based discussions, participants explored the policy, operational and legal challenges of REMVE-related threats.

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Activities

Insightful conversations with the Inspired Institutions bringing renewed energy to current and new efforts.

Insightful conversations with the Inspired Institutions bringing renewed energy to current and new efforts.

10 October 2023

Recently, the Partnership Dialogue between the GCTF and the GCTF Inspired Institutions – Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), Hedayah, and the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) – was held. During the engagement, the organizations examined ways to enhance the value of the Inspired Institutions, create more synergies, garner efficiency in the ways of working for continuous improvement. The conversations also spotlighted the value of the work done by the Inspired Institutions in support of counterterrorism and P/CVE efforts and in support of a stronger Forum. What's more, the engagement explored various avenues to increase the visibility of activities through communication and engagement as well as taking a moment to take stock of joint activities and evolving cooperation.

The Partnership Dialogues are meetings held regularly to enable the entities to come together to discuss the changing terrorism landscape, the needs required to enhance resilience in local communities, and to explore new opportunities of collaboration. The Inspired Institutions lead capacity-building projects worldwide, including North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia. Their work has included implementing GCTF products, and tackling topics such as foreign-terrorist fighters, countering violent extremism, criminal justice and rule of law responses to terrorist acts.

See: https://www.thegctf.org/About-us/Inspired_Institutions

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