Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2009

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Terrorism Prevention Branch: Strengths and Challenges Ahead

Eric Rosand

June 2009

Fourth Freedom Forum

Abstract

In the third in a series of policy briefs from the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and collaborating experts, Center Co-Director, Eric Rosand examines the work of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC's) Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB), which provides various forms of counterterrorism-related assistance to countries to help them join and implement the various UN treaties dealing with different types of terrorism and strengthen the capacity of their national criminal justice systems to address the threat.