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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Virtual Consultations: Legal, Policy, and Operational Implications of Watchlists

Virtual Consultations: 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.

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Prevention, Detection, Intervention and Response to Homegrown Terrorism

Prevention, Detection, Intervention and Response to Homegrown Terrorism

This video is intended to assist policymakers and practitioners as they develop, implement, and evaluate policies and programs to confront the homegrown terrorism phenomenon.

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Criminal Justice Responses: Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes & International Crimes

Criminal Justice Responses: Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes & International Crimes

9-10 June 2020

GCTF Criminal Justice and Rule of Law (CJ-ROL) Working Group Co-Chairs 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. 

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Virtual Consultation: National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Initiative

Virtual Consultation: National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Initiative

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.

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First GCTF Regional Expert Meeting on the Policy Toolkit on the Zurich-London Recommendations on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online

First GCTF Regional Expert Meeting on the Policy Toolkit on the Zurich-London Recommendations on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online

6 March 2019

The toolkit provides policy- and decision-makers, as well as other governmental experts, guidance on good governmental practices, case studies, and references to existing international and regional initiatives and practices on P/CVE and countering terrorism online. It further outlines means to efficiently and sustainably collaborate with information and communication technology (ICT) companies and civil society organizations based on shared responsibilities, while ensuring that any policy is respectful of human rights and the rule of law, and is context-specific and gender-sensitive. The toolkit was be developed in collaboration with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) during the course of a research phase and regional workshops in order to draw upon and collect experiences of GCTF Members. The toolkit is also intended to be of use to non-members interested in P/CVE and countering terrorism online.

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