-
Our work
-
Fields of work
- Arms control
- Border management
- Combating trafficking in human beings
- Conflict prevention and resolution
- Countering terrorism
- Cyber/ICT Security
- Democratization
- Economic activities
- Education
- Elections
- Environmental activities
- Gender equality
- Good governance
- Human rights
- Media freedom and development
- Migration
- National minority issues
- Policing
- Reform and co-operation in the security sector
- Roma and Sinti
- Rule of law
- Tolerance and non-discrimination
- Youth
- Field operations
- Projects
-
Meetings and conferences
- Summit meetings
- Review Conferences
- Ministerial Council meetings
- Plenary meetings of the Permanent Council
- Plenary Meetings of the Forum for Security Co-operation
- Security Review Conferences
- Annual Implementation Assessment Meetings
- Economic and Environmental Forum
- Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meetings
- Human rights meetings
- Media conferences
- Cyber/ICT security conferences
- Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons
- Gender Equality Review Conferences
- Annual OSCE Mediterranean conferences
- Annual OSCE Asian conferences
- Partnerships
-
Fields of work
-
Countries
- All
-
Participating States
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Belarus
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland – OSCE Chairpersonship 2025
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Holy See
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- The Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tajikistan
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- Asian Partners for Co-operation
- Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation
-
Structures and institutions
- Chairpersonship
-
Secretariat
- Secretary General
- Office of the Secretary General
- Conflict Prevention Centre
- Transnational Threats Department
- Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
- Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
- Gender Issues Programme
- Opportunities for Youth
- Department of Human Resources
- Department of Management and Finance
- Office of Internal Oversight
- Documentation Centre in Prague
- Institutions
-
Field operations
- Presence in Albania
- Centre in Ashgabat
- Programme Office in Astana
- Programme Office in Bishkek
- Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Programme Office in Dushanbe
- Mission in Kosovo
- Mission to Moldova
- Mission to Montenegro
- Mission to Serbia
- Mission to Skopje
- Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
- Closed field activities
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Court of Conciliation and Arbitration
- Organizational structure
- About us
OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference 2017: Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism
Conference
- Date:
- Location:
- Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
- Organized by:
- The Austrian OSCE Chairmanship, with support of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department
- Source:
- OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Chairpersonship
- Fields of work:
- Countering terrorism
About
More than 500 experts from across the OSCE region gathered for the annual OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference, this year organized in Vienna by Austria's 2017 OSCE Chairmanship. Violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT) is a threat faced by both OSCE participating States and their Partners for Co-operation and is high on the OSCE agenda.
The two-day conference was opened by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, followed by the keynote speeches from the European Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King and Goodwill Ambassador of the UN for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking Nadia Murad. The discussion continued with Jan Jambon, Deputy Prime-Minister and Minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Belgium, Dragan Mektic, Minister of Security of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Special Representative of the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office on Countering Radicalization and Violent Extremism Peter Neumann, and was be moderated by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier.
Participants discussed, among other, national experiences and international co-operation in countering terrorism, good practices from the OSCE region on rehabilitation and reintegration strategies, as well as prevention of radicalization to terrorism.
The conference also addressed youth empowerment in preventing and countering VERLT, which is one of the priorities of the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship. It provided a platform for youth representatives to present in front of the policy makers their recommendations, which were drafted throughout the past year during the OSCE Chairmanship's in Office workshops on youth and the prevention of violent extremism organized in Western Europe, the Black Sea region, the Western Balkans and Central Asia.
The Conference's opening session from 09.45-11.15 on Tuesday, 23 May 2017 was streamed live.
Learn more about the OSCE’s work in this field by following the OSCE United in Countering Violent Extremism campaign on Twitter @UnitedCVE, or by visiting the webpage at www.osce.org/unitedcve