Photo credit: Willem Heerbaart, “Ecowas Headquarters, Lomé, Togo,” CC BY 2.0.
ECOWAS Counter-Terrorism Coordination Unit
Summary
The Counter-Terrorism Coordination Unit functions as an element of the Economic Community of West African States’ Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Implementation Plan. ECOWAS developed the Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Implementation Plan as a means of reducing terrorism in West Africa as well as implement larger-scale counterterrorism measures in the region and beyond. The Plan is built on a framework of three pillars—prevent, pursue, and reconstruct—and features implementation of instruments such as the ECOWAS Counter-Terrorism Coordination Unit, an ECOWAS arrest warrant, an ECOWAS black list of terrorist and criminal networks, and an ECOWAS Counter-Terrorism Training Manual.
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Entry drafted by PILAC Research Assistant Carson Cook. Entry last updated: February 2015.