Understanding Career Foreign Fighters

Date: 26th May 2020 Organizer: USIP Type: Webinar Event information: Understanding Career Foreign Fighters

What’s next for financial crime policy and digital identity

Date: 19th May 2020 Organizer: RUSI Type: Webinar Event information: What’s next for financial crime policy and digital identity

COVID-19 and Conflict: Violent Extremism

Date: 12th May 2020 Organizer: USIP Type: Webinar Event information: COVID-19 and Conflict: Violent Extremism

Counter-terrorism, Sanctions & Humanitarian Access in the COVID-19 Era

Date: 6th May Organizer: ICRC Type: Webinar Event information: Counter-terrorism, Sanctions & Humanitarian Access in the COVID-19 Era

UNGA SIDE EVENT: “New Partnerships for Countering Violent Extremist Narratives”

On Thursday 27th September, the European Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark with support from M&C Saatchi, came together to hold the high-level event ‘New Partnerships for Countering Violent Extremist Narratives’, on the margins of the opening of 2018 UN General Assembly in New York. This event brought together around 100 experts […]

The prevention project: Recommendations on CVE and CT

On 8 December a one-day workshop -“Operationalizing and Sustaining the Global CVE Agenda”- was held at the Thon Hotel in Brussels, organised by DEVCO. The workshop aimed at presenting a set of independently-developed, actionable recommendations to address issues related to preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) developed under the framework of an IcSP funded project […]

Conference on “Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Development Context”

Over 100 participants took part in the conference entitled “Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism in a development context” organized by DEVCO B5 in cooperation with the Netherlands Council presidency. The conference brought together counterterrorism and development experts (COTER and CODEV), diplomats, policy makers and CVE practitioners who work at the global, national and local levels. By exchanging […]

Symposium on Youth and CVE in the Horn of Africa

June 2016- In the framework of the Global Counterterrorism Forum-Horn of Africa working group co- chaired by Turkey and the EU, DEVCO B5 organised a Youth Symposium in Djibouti bringing together a diverse group of civil society actors, multilateral organizations, and governments to understand and address the specific issues facing youth in the context of […]

Towards More Effective Capacity Building for Counter-Terrorism

A meeting, co-organised by the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission (DG DEVCO B5) on the 9th December, brought together more than 60 Counter Terrorism (CT) and development experts to examine different ways of monitoring and evaluating CT capacity-building effectiveness, with a focus on human rights due diligence, […]

Hedayah International CVE Research Conference 2015

On December 6-8, Hedayah (the first-ever International Centre dedicated to countering violent extremism), Edith Cowan University and New York University Institute Abu Dhabi held the International CVE Research Conference 2015 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The rationale behind this event goes back to February 2015, when the White House hosted the Countering Violent Extremism […]