Opening High-Level Session - Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week

A two-hour high-level session titled "Post COVID-19 World: Contours and Pivot Points and Benefits of Multilateral Collaboration" starts off the Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week, which will be held from 6-10 July and convened under the overarching theme of "Strategic and Practical Challenges of Countering Terrorism in a Global Pandemic Environment".

• Categories: Meetings & Events
• Video Length: 02:19:23
• Production Date: 6 July 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES; KAIS KABTANI; VLADIMIR VORONKOV
• Subject Topical: COUNTER-TERRORISM; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19
• MAMS Id: 2549939
• Parent Id: 2549974

Description

The Week will include nine additional webinars and interactive discussions focusing on priorities such as bio and cyber terrorism, high-risk threats and trends, addressing the plight of victims of terrorism, flagship UN counter-terrorism programmes, human rights and counter-terrorism, countering the financing of terrorism, youth-led initiatives to build resilient societies, and civil society and media perspectives to prevent violent extremism, among others.

The event will provide an opportunity to bring Member States, United Nations entities, thought leaders, civil society representatives and other stakeholders together to exchange views, through strategic and expert-level online events, on what the new circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic mean for the counter-terrorism landscape.

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