The Fourth Freedom Forum’s Sanctions & Security Research Program, a partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, hosted two leading experts on North Korea in a lunchtime event that took place at the Forum’s Washington, DC office. The event titled “Sanctions, Incentives, and Denuclearization: Options for Engaging the New Kim Regime in North Korea,” featured the expert knowledge of Ambassador Stephen Bosworth and George A. Lopez. Read More

On 9-10 February, government representatives, experts, and practitioners had a chance to exchange lessons learned and insights on monitoring and evaluating counterterrorism measures – in particular, programs to prevent terrorism and violent extremism. This colloquium was organized by the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and co-financed by the governments of Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Participants included a broad range of experts and practitioners from approximately fifteen governments, as well as representatives from academia, aid organizations, the private sector, and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations. Read More

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