The following recommendations are aimed at strengthening the role of the United Nations in promoting and protecting human rights and safeguarding and expanding civil society spaces while countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism.
They were formulated by the Global Center on Cooperative Security (Global Center) and the Prevention Project: Organizing Against Violent Extremism (Prevention Project) and were informed by events hosted by the two organizations on the margins of the sixth biennial review of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) and High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States (HLC), with the support of the governments of Norway and Sweden. They also build on recommendations made in the Global Center’
s May 2018 report “Blue Sky IV: Clouds Dispersing?” and in letters sent by a coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) to UN Secretary-General Guterres and UN Under-Secretary General to Counter-Terrorism Voronkov related to the recent reforms of the UN counterterrorism architecture.