Countering the Financing of Terrorism
Disrupting and preventing terrorist individuals and organizations from raising, moving, storing, and using funds is a critical pillar of counterterrorism efforts. Terrorism remains a significant global threat, which evolves and manifests differently across regions, and efforts to counter terrorism are critical. Global measures countering the financing of terrorism have evolved with changes in the terrorism landscape, including the rise of small cells or lone terrorist operatives conducting inexpensive and often self-financed attacks, as well as continued self-financing through exploitation and extortion of populations, businesses and resources in areas controlled by terrorist entities.
Along with relevant GCTF resources, the partner resources highlighted here can contribute to countering the financing of terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism.
Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) ˅˄
Hedayah ˅˄
The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ)˅˄
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)˅˄
The Global Center on Cooperative Security˅˄
- Far-Right Online Financing and How to Counter It, Jason Blazakis
Understanding how the finances connected to these extremists are raised, used, moved, and stored is vitally important to designing strategies to prevent and counter extremist violence, no matter the ideological, religious, idiosyncratic, racial, or ethnic motivations. This brief examines the online financing and support systems associated with U.S. anti-authority and racially or ethnically motivated (AAREM) violent extremists.
- Financing and Facilitation of Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Returnees in Southeast Asia
This typology report, produced in partnership between the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) and the Global Center on Cooperative Security, seeks to examine what is known and unknown regarding the financial profiles of FTFs connected to Southeast Asia and to explore the collection and utilization of financial intelligence related to FTFs in the region. In providing updated data, the report considers what has been learned about the financial patterns and profiles of FTFs since the initial wave of recruitment in the mid-2010s and how that learning can be applied to combat the ongoing challenge of FTFs returning or relocating to Southeast Asia.
- Untangling a Marriage of Convenience: Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Tracey Durner and Danielle Cotter
Within the realm of policy discussions, anti–money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) efforts are generally treated as a package deal. This brief examines where and how AML frameworks are fit for purpose relative to CFT and considers where additional CFT-specific efforts are necessary.