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North Macedonia enhances inter-agency co-operation and capacities in investigating terrorist financing
Publishing date: 31 March 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Countering terrorism
A three-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing (CFT) through investigations for North Macedonia concluded on 31 March 2022 in Vienna. The course was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, jointly with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. It aimed at strengthening the capacity of officials from North Macedonia to co-operate in conducting efficient CFT investigations.
OSCE holds interactive workshop on including a diverse group of young people in activities to strengthen community resilience to violent extremism
Publishing date: 30 March 2022
On 30 March 2022, 11 practitioners from Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe took part in an interactive, online OSCE workshop on inclusive youth engagement in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT).
Trainers from Bosnia and Herzegovina learn new techniques on investigating terrorist financing
Publishing date: 17 March 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
A three-day train-the-trainer course on undertaking effective investigations in the course of an unfolding terrorist attack for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) concluded on 24 February 2022 in Vienna. The course was the third of its kind for BiH as part of sustained efforts by the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to better counter terrorist financing and build training capability for the country.
OSCE Mobile Training Team conducts training course in Belgrade on identifying foreign terrorist fighters at the borders
Publishing date: 3 March 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Countering terrorism
The OSCE Mobile Training Team and the OSCE Mission to Serbia jointly organized an interactive training course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters at the borders for 16 officers of the Serbian Service for Combating Terrorism on 2 and 3 March in Belgrade, Serbia.
Tashkent to host high-level international conference on regional co-operation of Central Asian states in the fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 28 February 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT/NEW YORK/VIENNA, February 28, 2022- On March 3-4, 2022, a high-level international conference on the topic: “Regional cooperation of Central Asian countries within the framework of the Joint Action Plan for the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy”, will be held in Tashkent.
Erasing frontiers – OSCE holds cross-regional seminars towards establishing a community of preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism
Publishing date: 8 December 2021
“What can each of us offer to others to build a community of practice in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT)?” This question gave direction to a series of three, three-day cross-regional seminars for certified facilitators of the OSCE’s Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism (LIVE) capacity-building initiative, organized by the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department.
OSCE supports national seminar on a whole-of-society approach to prevention of violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism in Serbia
Publishing date: 26 November 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Countering terrorism