The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation held a closed-door lunchtime discussion in New York on Mainstreaming Human Rights Compliant Interrogation Skills in East African Countries. This session brought together representatives of UN member states and UN agencies such as CTED and CTITF to discuss how to encourage innovative approaches to integrating respect for human rights into counterterrorism efforts worldwide. The meeting focused on a training seminar organized by the Center and the IGAD Security Sector Program in October 2011 in Kampala, Uganda, which provided specialist training to interrogators from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda. Read More

On 26 January 2012, at the invitation of the Danish Foreign Ministry, the Center’s Co-Director James Cockayne briefed the European Union Council’s counterterrorism configuration on possible counterterrorism strategies for East Africa. Cockayne highlighted the work of the IGAD Security Sector Program, and the Center’s collaborations with IGAD on the ground over the last four years. Read More

With the support of the Center and the Royal Danish Government, from 18 to 20 January 2012, 21 Ethiopian officials received three days of advanced training on anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and other economic crimes. The training was conducted on behalf of the Center by the Danish State Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crimes, Mr Jens Madsen, and the head of the Danish Financial Intelligence Unit, Mr Jens Kauffeld Andreasen. Read More

Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Senior Analyst at the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, was a speaker at the annual Ian Cuthbertson Memorial Lecture hosted jointly by the World Policy Institute and the EastWest Institute on 7 December 2011. Read More

The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation facilitated the organization of the second “Regional working group meeting on preventing abuse of the non-profit sector for the purposes of terrorist financing” in Auckland on 7-9 November 2011. Read More