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The Council of Europe Committee on Counter-Terrorism (CDCT) objectives are to oversee and ensure the successful implementation of relevant Council of Europe legal instruments while also providing a means for international experts to analyse and respond to developments in the counter-terrorism area, including through international standard-setting.

Eurojust assists prosecutors and other investigators from EU Member States in cases of serious crime where that crime affects two or more Member States or requires prosecution on common bases, based on operations conducted and information supplied by the Member States’ authorities, by Europol, by the EPPO and by OLAF.

Europol’s counter-terrorism efforts are coordinated by the European Counter Terrorism Center (ECTC), which officially started operations on 1 January 2016. The ECTC seeks to enhance cross-border cooperation between relevant counter-terrorist authorities.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) leads global action to tackle money laundering and terrorist and proliferation financing. The FATF researches how money is laundered, and terrorism is funded, promotes global standards to mitigate the risks, and assesses whether countries are taking effective action.

The Global Coalition Against Daesh was formed in September 2014 and is unique in its membership, scope and commitment. Together, the Global Coalition is committed to degrading and ultimately defeating Daesh.

The Global Counter-Terrorism Forum is an international forum of 29 countries and the European Union with an overarching mission of reducing the vulnerability of people worldwide to terrorism by preventing, combating, and prosecuting terrorist acts and countering incitement and recruitment to terrorism. The forum brings together experts and practitioners from countries and regions around the world to share experiences and expertise and develop tools and strategies on how to counter the evolving terrorist threat.

The International Crimes Database (ICD) website, hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague and supported by the ICCT, offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, as well as international and internationalised courts.

The Jihadi Casualty Database, managed by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2020 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 200,000 cases.

The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents is a compilation of data from 1968 through 2009. This legacy RAND project developed and maintained a database of terrorism incidents stretching back to 1968, which provides comprehensive information on international and domestic terrorism. Over the years, many public and private sponsors have contributed to the maintenance of the RDWTI and its predecessors, the RAND Terrorism Chronology and the RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database.