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International Process on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: A Compilation of Key Documents

By Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand, eds.

Report — September 2008

This report is a compendium of documents from the International Process on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, a process sponsored by the governments of Costa Rica, Japan, Slovakia, and Turkey with the support of CGCC. The focus of the process was assessing overall UN contributions to the fight against terrorism and how to make UN institutions more relevant to national counterterrorism strategies and better able to support implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

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

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and 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 East Africa

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and 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.

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

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and 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.

Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Southern Africa

By Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Alistair Millar

Report — November 2007

The report focuses on the challenges of and priorities for implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in southern Africa. It considers how the Strategy can be used as a guide for governments in and outside the subregion, the United Nations, and other multilateral bodies and civil society to contribute more effectively to addressing the terrorist threat and as a basis for improving the overall coordination and cooperation in the subregion in combating terrorism.

Building Global Alliances in the Fight Against Terrorism

By Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand

Report — November 2007

This report outlines steps the Obama administration should take during its first 100 days to improve international cooperation against terrorism, repair the United States’ damaged reputation on the international stage, and protect America from another major terrorist attack.

The UN Security Council’s Counterterrorism Program: What Lies Ahead?

By Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and Jason Ipe

Report — 2007

This report was the culmination of the “Security Council Counterterrorism Review Project” and highlights the successes and shortcomings of the post–September 2001 Security Council counterterrorism program and the steps that can be taken to improve it, in particular the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.

Enhancing the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Sanctions

By Fourth Freedom Forum

Report — April 2007

Proceedings from a sanctions symposium sponsored in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations. Co-sponsoring organizations included The Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute, The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and the Stockholm Process on Targeted Sanctions at Uppsala University.

Implementing the United Nations General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Asia-Pacific

By Jason Ipe, Alistair Millar, and Eric Rosand

Report — March 2007

The Asia-Pacific region, and Southeast Asia in particular, face serious threats from terrorist groups that have demonstrated an ability to exploit the region’s geographical and institutional vulnerabilities, large areas insufficiently controlled by national governments, intra- and interstate rivalries, local insurgencies, and a relative lack of formal multilateral security cooperation. This report looks at the challenges and prospects for implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the region.

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.