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New CTED Trends Report stresses challenges stemming from returning and relocating foreign terrorist fighters

AKHVEDELID — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:55:00 +0000

The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) today issued its latest Trends Report.¹ Titled “The Challenge of Returning and Relocating Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Research Perspectives,” the report outlines a number of issues 51�Թ� Member States are facing related to foreign terrorist fighters.

The current wave of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) shows clear differences compared to previous waves. The present wave is larger, increasingly global, and more diverse in terms of age, gender, and experience in conflict zones. These differences make the potential challenges associated with returnees and relocators significantly greater, but also more complex. One key challenge for Member States is to establish which returning individuals may pose a threat, or act as facilitators for acts of terrorism, in the future.

Despite military progress and enhanced counter-measures by Member States, the fate and location of a large proportion of foreign terrorist fighters is uncertain. Identifying and locating these remaining FTFs remains a critical priority for the international community, and is a major focus of the measures included in Security Council resolution 2396 (2017).

This resolution calls on Member States to develop tailored prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration strategies, including programmes that address radicalization in prisons, or are focused on the needs of children associated with foreign terrorist fighters.

The complete CTED Trends Report is available here

For additional information, please contact Mattias Sundholm, CTED, at this email address, or +1-917-628-3531.

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CTED calls for increased research investment to identify emerging terrorist threats

BMUSONI — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:11:00 +0000

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Mr. Weixiong Chen, Deputy Executive Director, CTED.

The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) this week called for increased investment in research aimed at strengthening the UN’s capacity to identifying emerging terrorist threats.

Mr. Weixiong Chen, Deputy Executive Director, CTED.

“There is merit in close and enhanced partnerships with academia and think tanks on ‘deep-dive’ research into new and emerging threats. Investment needs to be doubled to bring the research community’s vast reservoir of wisdom into the policymaking process”, said Mr. Weixiong Chen, CTED Deputy Executive Director.

Mr. Chen was addressing around 90 UN agencies and research entities attending a round table on strengthening UN research uptake.

The event was held in Geneva on 25-26 April 2016, and was organized by the UN University and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, in partnership with the UN Office in Geneva and Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

“To better implement the requirements of Security Council resolution 2129 (2013) and other relevant resolutions, we must cultivate and build confidence among Member States, UN agencies and the academic world”, Mr. Chen added.

The discussions focused on ways to identify UN knowledge gaps and research needs in key policy areas, adapt research design to this effect, and make better use of research outputs to strengthen evidence-based policy development.

Opening session of the event.

Mr. Chen called for a gradual approach in matching research entities with policymakers, but stressed the need for the UN to work with a broad range of research partners.

The UN must also ensure that it can quickly access timely, needs-based research to meet the rapidly evolving global peace and security landscape.

The Counter-Terrorism Committee launched its Global Counter-Terrorism Research Network in February 2015 and held an open briefing with its research partners in November 2015 to discuss ways to strengthen and share research into the foreign terrorist fighter threat.

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Outcome document of the global research network meeting on 24 November 2015

BMUSONI — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:29:00 +0000

The Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism presents his compliments to the members of the Committee and has the honour to transmit, for their information, an outcome document on the open meeting of the Committee held on 24 November 2015 with Research Network partners on “Foreign Terrorist Fighters”.

NOTE.011 Outcome document on open mtg with academia (22 Jan 16)

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