Global Center on Cooperative Security

Financial integrity and inclusion: we promote transparent and equitable financial systems that curb terrorism and illicit finance. In 2023, we continued to deepen anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (aml/cft) capacities in the asia pacific, east africa, west africa, middle east, and western balkans. Our programs focus on the financing of isil affiliates, virtual assets and cryptocurrency, financial investigations, risk-based supervision, and protecting non-profit organizations from terrorism financing abuse. We advised international policymakers on improving Global financial transparency to combat corruption and kleptocracy and continued promoting meaningful collaboration between government and civil society on the design and implementation of cft measures that safeguard civic space, human rights, and non-profit operations.

Criminal justice and rule of law: we advance accountable and accessible criminal justice systems that uphold human rights and the rule of law in context of counterterrorism. In 2023, we continued working with national prison systems in kenya, indonesia, and morocco to institutionalize human rights-based approaches to the management, rehabilitation, and reintegration of violent extremist prisoners. In morocco, we began expanding our work to provide a train-the-trainers program on gender-responsive approaches for women involved in or impacted by violent extremism, terrorism, and other forms of conflict. We also concluded a program with the law enforcement training academy in the maldives to foster a policing culture that proactively addresses the needs of communities.

Preventing violent extremism: we foster partnerships between civil society, governments, the private sector, and multilateral institutions to collaboratively address terrorism. In 2023, we continued to provide pilot funding and capacity development support to civil society organizations on community resilience, peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and rehabilitation and reintegration across africa and south and southeast asia. In the maghreb, we facilitated a network of regional experts to produce localized research on the drivers of violent extremism, returning foreign fighters, and transnational organized crime networks. We developed a toolkit on gender-responsive approaches to counterterrorism, which will be used in a new initiative with practitioners in the philippines. Drawing on our programs, we hosted a series of roundtable events to connect national experts with policymakers at the united nations. Our sixth independent review of the un's counterterrorism efforts and entities was published, and we are continuing to lead Global consultations on an independent mechanism for civil society to engage with the un.