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Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat

By David Cortright and George A. Lopez, eds.

Book — 2007

This book argues that defeating the global terrorist threat requires engaging international financial, diplomatic, intelligence, and defense communities and law enforcement organizations in an atmosphere of cooperation. It examines cooperative diplomatic and economic policies to address the changing face of terrorism and the global al-Qaida threat, differentiates between protective measures and long-term preventive policies, and makes recommendations for effective cooperative nonmilitary strategies.

Report on Standards and Best Practices for Improving States’ Implementation of UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Mandates

By Alistair Millar

Report — September 2006

This report provides an assessment of core counterterrorism standards and best practices. Using UN Security Council Resolution 1373 as its basis, the report identifies best practices in three broad areas related to the resolution: combating terrorist financing, improving legal practice and law enforcement, and enhancing territorial control.

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: How to Prevent the Deadly Nexus

By Alistair Millar

Journal article — Winter 2006

“Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: How to Prevent the Deadly Nexus,” by Alistair Millar in Global Dialogue; Nicosia, 8, no. 1/2, Winter 2006.

Allied against Terrorism: What’s Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment

By Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand

Book — 2006

There is now broad recognition that even the most powerful of countries cannot successfully fight terrorism on their own. Cross-border cooperation is necessary to trace funding, disrupt planning, and thwart new attacks as well as to investigate, capture, and prosecute terrorists and their supporters should those preventive efforts fail. While the initial impulse for effective action may come from individual states, sustaining it requires ongoing coordination. Five years after the attacks of September 11, what are the prospects for the global counterterrorism campaign? Allied against Terrorism is an up-to-date assessment of the global efforts to combat terrorism.

Recommendations for Improving the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee’s Assessment and Assistance Coordination Function

By Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe, George A. Lopez, Tona Boyd, Linda Gerber, and David Cortright

Report — September 2005

This report provides recommendations for improving the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee’s assessment and assistance coordination function. Policy options outlined in the report include: High-level Panel report and CTED review process, conduct more credible needs assessments, improve CTC site-visits, improve international coordination, and develop and implement UN counter-terrorism standards and best practices.

An Action Agenda for Enhancing the United Nations Program on Counter-Terrorism

By David Cortright, Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber, and George A. Lopez

Report — September 2004

This report is one of the first analytical assessments of the work of the United Nations Counter-terrorism Committee, which was created by the Security Council in September 2001. It analyzes the changing responsiveness of member states to the reporting requirements of the resolution. It also explores trends that have led many members to call for strengthening the committee’s institutional capacity to respond to member requests for reporting assistance and for increased training in the procedures called for by SCR 1373 and international treaties.

War on Terror or Real Security

By David Cortright and George A. Lopez

Magazine article — January 2004

“War on Terror or Real Security” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, Sojourners, vol. 33, no. 1, (January 2004), pp. 30-34.

Toward a More Secure America: Grounding U.S. Policy in Global Realities

By David Cortright, Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, and Linda M. Gerber

Report — November 2003

This policy brief grew out of discussions with a team of former national security and foreign policy officials held at the Washington office of the Fourth Freedom Forum in the summer of 2003. The brief was written by the staff of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.