FATF in Combating the Financing of Terrorism

Combating Terrorism in Africa

The underlying structural causes of state weakness in sub-Saharan Africa – relatively low population densities, problematic population distribution and poor infrastructure will remain ubiquitous through 2015 and beyond, impeding the prospects of significant gains in broad based institution building and development. Much will depend upon two external drivers of development and growth – foreign d...

Combating Transnational Terrorism in Kenya

Preventing Terrorism by Combating Financial Resources

Terrorism is an offensive action which violates human rights and always invades to people’s rights. Given the high incidence of this type of global action and the widespread violations of human rights and peace and security, countering terrorism will be important. The existence of financial resources is an essential element of terrorism and Preemptive measures and their success in blocking fina...

Burden Sharing in Combating Terrorist Financing

This paper contributes to the literature concerning burden sharing. We provide a quantitative expression of the burden sharing behaviour of 174 states in the case of combating terrorist financing and address specific burden sharing issues in this context (i.e., weakest link; no substitutability). We conclude that advanced states have shown more effort to control terrorist financing than develop...

suppression of the financing of terrorism in international instruments

suppressing the terrorism financing is one of the ways to combat the phenomenon of terrorism. to this end, the countries, whether directly or through the united nations, have paved the way to restrain the terrorism financing. according to the obligatory character, those measures could be classified in to three categories: 1. resolutions passed by the security council, particulary resolution 137...