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The Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism's (COE-DAT) mission is to provide key decision-makers with a comprehensive understanding of terrorism and CT challenges in order to transform NATO and nations of interest to meet future security challenges. This transformation is embedded into NATO’s three declared core tasks of collective defence, crisis management, and cooperative security.

Fighting terrorism is a top priority for the EU. Member states work closely together to prevent terrorist attacks and ensure the security of citizens.

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 ICD is the most comprehensive open source counterterrorism database available today with more than 370 million data points on terrorist, rebel, proxy and separatist groups.

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.