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Patterns of Implementation: Do Listing Practices Impede Compliance with UN Sanctions? A Critical Assessment

By David Cortright

Report — December 2009

It is widely assumed that concerns about due process rights in listing and delisting procedures have impeded compliance with targeted sanctions against Al-Qaida and the Taliban. While most governments regard UN sanctions as essential tools in the fight against global terrorism and consider them among the most important instruments available to the Security Council, a growing number of states are concerned about flaws in the listing and delisting process. This paper examines designation patterns in sanctions targeting to determine if due process concerns are impeding the willingness of states to implement these measures.

Patterns of Implementation: Do Listing Practices Impede Compliance with UN Sanctions? A Critical Assessment

Human Rights and Targeted Sanctions: An Action Agenda for Strengthening Due Process Procedures

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, Eliot Fackler, Sarah Persinger, Joshua Weaver

Report — November 2009

This paper examines various policy reform options to improve listing and delisting procedures. It begins by evaluating reform efforts to date, and the work of the Focal Point. This is followed by an examination of options for improving information gathering and sharing through greater utilization of the Monitoring Team and Focal Point. The paper concludes with a summary of recommendations.

Human Rights and Targeted Sanctions: An Action Agenda for Strengthening Due Process Procedures

Enhancing Counterterrorism Cooperation in Eastern Africa

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe

Journal article — June 2009

This article, published in the African Security Review, begins with an overview of the terrorist threat and vulnerabilities in eastern Africa and the capacity of governments to respond. It then looks at the response at the subregional level and what has developed into the primary mechanism for fostering deeper subregional cooperation, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Capacity Building Programme Against Terrorism, and how it may be improved. It also examines how the United Nations can help to strengthen that cooperation and the opportunity offered by the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Enhancing Counterterrorism Cooperation in Eastern Africa

Overdue Process: Protecting Human Rights while Sanctioning Alleged Terrorists

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

Report — April 2009

This paper highlights the importance of providing due process and respecting other fundamental human rights when countering terrorism and offers a set of recommendations for civil society organizations to consider in their efforts to support and sustain human rights as priority rather than postscript for measures to enhance security.

Overdue Process: Protecting Human Rights while Sanctioning Alleged Terrorists

Oversight or Overlooked? Civil Society’s Role in Monitoring and Reforming Security Systems and the Practice of Counterterrorism

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

Report — March 2009

A report to Cordaid, this document considers civil society’s role in monitoring Security System Reform (SSR) and counterterrorism both in policy and in practice. It argues that civil society engagement, particularly with local actors, is central to ensuring proper civilian oversight and the overall effectiveness of both SSR and counterterrorism efforts and examines how efforts to engage civil society may be improved.

Oversight or Overlooked? Civil Society’s Role in Monitoring and Reforming Security Systems and the Practice of Counterterrorism

Friend not Foe: Civil Society and the Struggle against Violent Extremism

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

Report — October 2008

Many of the policies carried out in the name of counterterrorism are making the terrorist danger worse. An overemphasis on security measures has eroded civil liberties and human rights in many countries and diverted attention from the policies needed to counter the complex challenge of contemporary global terrorism. This paper examines the contradiction of counterterrorism measures that can hinder the work of countering terror.

Friend not Foe: Civil Society and the Struggle against Violent Extremism

Civil Society and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe

Report — September 2008

This report explores the important and often overlooked role that civil society can play in combating terrorism without compromising their ongoing important work and examines the challenges and the opportunities for expanding engagement between civil society and the UN system on counterterrorism and related issues. The report also looks at the impact that counterterrorism measures have had on civil society and the need for the United Nations to promote the role of civil society, including in the context of implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Civil Society and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges

Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean Region

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe

Report — September 2008

This report provides an overview of issues relevant to the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It focuses on the role of the United Nations and regional and subregional bodies, in particular the Organization of American States, and looks at how counterterrorism cooperation within and between these bodies could be strengthened and how the Strategy could be used to further not only this cooperation but also broader regional efforts to combat terrorism.

Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Latin America and Caribbean Region

Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in East Africa

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe

Report — June 2008

This report provides an analysis of issues and challenges relevant to the implementation of the UN Strategy in East Africa and an overview of the Strategy-related counterterrorism efforts of some of the key stakeholders in the subregion. It offers a series of recommendations aimed at states, the United Nations, and regional and subregional bodies on how to further the implementation of the Strategy in East Africa with a view to strengthening counterterrorism cooperation in this volatile subregion.

Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in East Africa

Human Rights and the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Hopes and Challenges

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe

Report — January 2008

This report addresses the challenge of ensuring that the human rights–based approach to combating terrorism enshrined in the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy is mainstreamed through the relevant UN and regional bodies and programs and at the national level. It provides specific recommendations on what the United Nations, region and subregional bodies, and civil society can do to carry forward the human rights elements of the Strategy.

Human Rights and the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Hopes and Challenges

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