UNICRI – United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute

❓ Are you ready to contribute your expertise to strengthening global preparedness against evolving CBRN risks ❓

🇺🇳 UNICRI is expanding its pool of experts to support capacity-building, training and international cooperation activities aimed at preventing, detecting and responding to evolving CBRN threats.

🔎 We are seeking professionals with expertise in areas including:
🔹 Intelligence, investigations and law enforcement operations
🔹 Cybersecurity and emerging technologies
🔹 Prevention of illicit trafficking and procurement of dual-use materials
🔹 CBRN crisis management and emergency preparedness
🔹 Health system preparedness and response
🔹 Tabletop and field exercises

Join a network of experts helping the global community prevent, prepare for and respond to evolving CBRN risks.

Deadline: 6️⃣ July 2026

➡️ More information: https://bit.ly/4uUZkxx

🧪 Advancing Chemical Security Cooperation Across Asia: 13 Countries Unite Against Chemical Threats

🇵🇭 Hosted in Manila, Philippines, the regional workshop provided a platform for strengthening the implementation and enforcement of the Chemical Weapons Convention and advancing cooperation to prevent and respond to chemical crimes.

🇺🇳 Organized by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in partnership with UNICRI, co-hosted by the Anti-Terrorism Council of the Philippines, and supported by the 🇪🇺 European Union, the event brought together policymakers, law enforcement officials, prosecutors, customs officers and other national stakeholders from 🇧🇩 Bangladesh, 🇰🇭 Cambodia, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇲🇻 Maldives, 🇲🇳 Mongolia, 🇲🇲 Myanmar, 🇵🇰 Pakistan, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, 🇹🇭 Thailand and 🇻🇳 Viet Nam.

Key focus areas
🔹 Legislative and operational approaches to strengthening chemical security and implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention.
🔹 The role of law enforcement, customs and border authorities in preventing the illicit movement of hazardous chemicals.
🔹 Strengthening national response frameworks through a tabletop exercise simulating a chemical incident scenario.
🔹 Enhancing regional cooperation and professional networks among practitioners working to prevent and address chemical threats.

⚠️ Chemical threats do not stop at borders. Effective prevention requires strong legislation, capable institutions and sustained international cooperation.
➡️ https://bit.ly/4el4zl3

European Commission I European Union in the Philippines I European External Action Service - EEAS

🛜 Violence. Coercion. Exploitation. Status. Clout.

A growing ecosystem of violent and coercive online networks is encouraging harmful and criminal behaviour that cuts across traditional categories of crime, terrorism and violent extremism.

How can the international community better understand and respond to this emerging phenomenon that operates without ideology or structure❓

Join us at the 2026 United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week side event:
“Nihilistic Violent Extremism”? Understanding the ‘Com Network’ and Emerging Violent and Coercive Online Networks
🔸2 July 2026
🔸13:30–15:00 EDT
🔸United Nations Headquarters, New York

🇺🇳 Organized with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), in partnership with 🇮🇩 the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations, 🇷🇴 the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations, 🇪🇺 the European Union, 🇨🇦 the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence (CPRMV) and the VOX-Pol Institute.

Focus areas:
🔹 Exploring the evolving phenomenon of violent and coercive online networks, their links to online exploitation, cybercrime, extortion and violence and what this means for counter-terorrism and the prevention of violent extremism
🔹 Launch of a new UNICRI–VOX-Pol Institute study examining the networks in Brazil, Indonesia, Iraq and Romania.
🔹 Discussion of practical approaches and tools to strengthen prevention, safeguarding and multidisciplinary responses.

🌐 As online threats continue to evolve across borders and sectors, strengthening understanding, cooperation and evidence-based responses remains essential to preventing harm and protecting communities in the digital age.

➡️ More information: https://bit.ly/4eMeIr0

🌐 As migration continues to shape societies across the globe, policymakers and practitioners face the challenge of balancing effective governance, security considerations and the protection of fundamental rights.

🇺🇳 To support a deeper understanding of these issues, UNICRI and John Cabot University organize the Summer School on Migration and Human Rights, an intensive programme examining the legal, social, policy and technological dimensions of migration.

Focus areas:
🔹 International frameworks on migration, asylum and human rights
🔹 Protection and assistance for migrants and vulnerable groups
🔹 Human trafficking and migrant smuggling trends
🔹 The impact of AI and digital technologies on border management
🔹 Public discourse, disinformation and migration narratives
🔹 Practical learning through case studies and expert-led discussions

📍 Rome 🇮🇹
🗓️ 13–17 July 2026
⏳ Application deadline: 29 June 2026

🌍 The programme offers a unique opportunity to learn from academics, UN specialists and practitioners, while engaging with participants from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.

⚖️ Advancing migration policies that are both effective and rights-based requires informed dialogue, multidisciplinary expertise and international cooperation.
➡️ More information: https://bit.ly/415otc0

❓What kind of social order emerges when informal economies, violence, corruption and exclusion overlap?

🌍 The launch webinar of UNICRI’s report Dangerous Liaisons: Assessing the Nexus between Terrorism and Criminal Activities in Africa highlighted that the terrorism–crime nexus cannot be understood in isolation. Addressing its dynamics requires examining not only the interactions between terrorist and criminal actors, but also the wider context of informal economies, governance challenges, corruption and social marginalisation in which they evolve.

Key insights from the discussion
🔹 The nexus between terrorism and criminal activities is complex, adaptive and highly context-specific.
🔹 Relationships between terrorist and criminal actors often evolve along a continuum, ranging from coexistence and cooperation to competition and convergence.
🔹 In many settings, informal economies, corruption, social marginalisation and terrorist-related violence intersect and reinforce one another.
🔹 Where state presence is weak, fragmented or perceived as ineffective, terrorist actors may exploit governance gaps and embed themselves within local economic and social structures.
🔹 Understanding how these dynamics shape local power structures, governance and livelihoods is essential to designing effective prevention and response strategies.

💡 Addressing these challenges requires approaches that go beyond security responses alone and strengthen governance, resilience, inclusion, accountability and opportunities at the local level.
➡️ https://bit.ly/4uy3uv3

Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale I Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo I Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations - New York