On Thursday, 13 April 2023, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrated their decade-long partnership. Each semester, CGA and CTED hold consulting practicums which place students in real-world situations with faculty supervision. This brings academic perspectives and insights to CTED’s research and information-gathering activities. The anniversary event brought together alumni of these consulting practicums and CTED staff to discuss past and current practicums – their accomplishments, contributions, and the value of the experience to their postgraduate careers.
NYU is one of the founding members of CTED’s Global Research Network (GRN). In its resolution 2129 (2013), the Security Council directs CTED to identify emerging issues, trends, and developments relating to relevant Council resolutions. In accordance with the resolution, and in order to strengthen its existing research and analysis capabilities, CTED launch GRN in 2015.
GRN enables CTED to leverage the expertise of research institutes and think tanks from across the globe and provides CTED with evidence-based research insights from diverse regional perspectives.
In resolutions 2395 (2017) and 2617 (2021), the Security Council reiterates CTED’s essential role within the United Nations to identify and assess issues, trends, and developments, and notes the value of CTED’s relationships – including GRN – in promoting an analysis of emerging threats and trends.
Here are highlights of some of the events that NYU and CTED have collaborated on over the years as well as a list of all 17 projects to date.
Here is a album of the event.