OSCE 2020 Albania’s Chairmanship, in co-operation with the OSCE Secretariat’s Action against Terrorism Unit, Transnational Threats Department, will host an OSCE-wide counter-terrorism conference on “Effective partnership against terrorism and violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism” on 14 and 15 September 2020 in Vienna and virtually.
The opening session with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama will take place at 14:30 on Monday and can be followed live via osce.org/live.
The discussion will focus on:
Fostering continued international and regional co-operation on counter terrorism matters;
Supporting multi-agency co-ordination at the national level to address terrorism and violent extremism and to encourage all OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation to mainstream partnerships in their national strategies and actions plans;
The importance and added value of effective partnerships with a broad spectrum of civil society and the private sector in preventing and countering violent extremism.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edi Rama; UN Under-Secretary-General, Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov; Minister of State for Security, UK Home Office, Rt Hon James Brokenshire and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy Marina Sereni will open the conference.
The conference will offer five sessions on different approaches to strengthening co-operation among government agencies, with international partners, as well as engaging the business community and civil society.
The OSCE participating States, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), partner organizations such as the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), as well as civil society organizations from different regions across the OSCE will host seven side events.