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OSCE Co-ordinator of Transnational Threats stresses the importance of a victim-centered and human rights-compliant approach to counter terrorism
Publishing date: 12 September 2022
From 6 to 9 September, Ambassador Alena Kupchyna, the OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats (TNTD), and Fejzo Numanaj, the Acting Head of the TNTD Action against Terrorism Unit, participated in the United Nations Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism in New York.
New OSCE policy brief sheds light on linkages between violent misogynistic and violent extremist attitudes
Publishing date: 9 September 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Gender equality
The prevalence of violent misogynistic attitudes across the ideological spectrum of violent extremism, and the risks related to overlooking this issue in policymaking, is the focus of a new OSCE policy brief published today in Vienna.
Legacy of OSCE LIVE: Trained facilitators meet in Vienna to launch Community of Practice on Preventing Violent Extremism
Publishing date: 22 June 2022
To celebrate the multi-annual OSCE Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism (LIVE) initiative, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit (TNTD/ATU) hosted a 2-day in-person workshop for facilitators in Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe trained under the LIVE initiative in Vienna on 21-22 June.
OSCE seminar marks a decade of comprehensive efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism
Publishing date: 20 June 2022
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit (TNTD/ATU) marked a decade of efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism on 20 June 2022 in an anniversary Seminar held in Vienna. The seminar, titled In Retrospect: 10 Years of a Comprehensive Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism- Good Practices and Evolving Challenges in the OSCE area, was an opportunity to take stock of good practices, to identify and discuss evolving and existing challenges in the OSCE area, and to draft a set of recommendations that stakeholders can use moving forward.
OSCE online workshop validates the need for establishment of regional networks for female professionals in preventing and countering violent extremism
Publishing date: 16 June 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department
What we do: Countering terrorism, Gender equality
On 16 June 2022, the OSCE Gender Issues Programme and the Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit organized an online validation workshop on the needs assessment for creating two regional networks for female practitioners in preventing and countering violent extremism that lead to radicalization (P/CVERLT) in South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina strengthens inter-agency co-operation and abilities to counter terrorist financing
Publishing date: 3 June 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
How to undertake effective financial investigations to identify, investigate and disrupt the financing of terrorism was in focus during a five-day training course, which concluded today, 3 June 2022 in Sarajevo. The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) jointly organized the training course with the support of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
Limiting unintended harm in preventing and countering violent extremism focus of OSCE-organized workshop
Publishing date: 25 May 2022
Twenty OSCE staff members from South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia participated in a two-part interactive workshop on limiting unintended harm in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT). The workshop was organized by the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department on 18 and 25 May 2022.