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

P/CVE Policy Toolkit: Recognizing & Involving Women & Girls in P/CVE Efforts & Connecting Related Fields

P/CVE Policy Toolkit: Recognizing & Involving Women & Girls in P/CVE Efforts & Connecting Related Fields

20-21 October 2020

Australia and Indonesia, Co-Chairs of the GCTF Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group, hosted a virtual workshop within the framework of the 'Gender and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism' Policy Toolkit Initiative' in order to develop a Policy Toolkit for practitioners and policymakers.

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Virtual Launch: Countering the Financing of Terrorism Measures While Safeguarding Civic Space Initiative

Virtual Launch: Countering the Financing of Terrorism Measures While Safeguarding Civic Space Initiative

13 October 2020

The Netherlands, Morocco and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) launched a GCTF Initiative on ‘Ensuring the Effective Implementation of Countering the Financing of Terrorism Measures While Safeguarding Civic Space’. This initiative will provide an inclusive platform for a diverse range of experts to share their perspectives with the objective of strengthening dialogue and coordination among counterterrorism and CFT practitioners, the United Nations, government representatives, financial intelligence units, CSOs, humanitarian actors, and private sector, and supervisory authorities with CFT responsibilities on this topic.

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Seventeenth GCTF Coordinating Committee Meeting

Seventeenth GCTF Coordinating Committee Meeting

29 September 2020

The GCTF Co-Chairs, Canada and Morocco, hosted the Seventeenth GCTF Coordinating Committee Meeting in a virtual format on 29 September 2020. The Coordinating Committee took stock of the Forum’s progress since they last met in September 2019.

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Interactive GCTF Resources

Interactive GCTF Resources

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Activities

Criminal Justice and Rule of Law Working Group - Second Expert Meeting on the Development of a Memorandum on the Use of of Rule of Law-Based Administrative Measures in a Counterterrorism Context

Criminal Justice and Rule of Law Working Group - Second Expert Meeting on the Development of a Memorandum on the Use of of Rule of Law-Based Administrative Measures in a Counterterrorism Context

7-8 February 2019

Supported by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague (ICCT), the Second Expert Meeting was convened at the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of law (IIJ) in Valletta, Malta to gather expert input on the development of a Memorandum on the Use of Rule of Law-Based Administrative Measures in a Counterterrorism Context. The document will elaborate on the legal basis, scope, procedures, authority and oversight, safeguards and other dimensions relating to the use of administrative measures. The outcomes of these meetings will contribute to the development of the Memorandum to be put forward for endorsement at the Tenth GCTF Ministerial Plenary Meeting, on the margins of the UN General Assembly, in September 2019, in New York.

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