About Project CRAAFT
Project CRAAFT (Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against the Financing of Terrorism) is an academic research and community-building initiative designed to build stronger, more coordinated counter terrorist financing (CTF) capacity across the EU and in its neighbourhood. The project engages with authorities and private entities in order to promote cross-border connectivity and targeted research.
Funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police, the project is being implemented by a Consortium led by RUSI Europe, along with the University of Amsterdam, Bratislava-based think tank GLOBSEC and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), based in The Hague.
The Consortium’s research agenda focuses on the most pressing issues facing Europe when it comes to CTF:
- Lone-actor and small-cell terrorist financing
- The impact of new payment and social media technologies on terrorist financing and CTF
- The crime–terror nexus
- Smuggling of small arms and light weapons as a TF method
- The ethical and political considerations of
public–private partnerships - CTF capacities of EU candidate countries
Online Symposiums
CTF Online Symposium No. 9: State Funding, Malign Influence and Terrorism Financing: Challenges for Europe
CTF Online Symposium No. 8: The EU and Counterterrorism Financing
CTF Online Symposium No. 6: Terrorism Financing Risks of Crowdfunding
CTF Online Symposium No. 5: Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
CTF Online Symposium No. 4: Fraud-Enabled Terrorism Financing: A Neglected Dossier
CTF Online Symposium No. 3: Financial Intelligence in the Age of Lone Actor Terrorism
CTF Online Symposium No. 2: New Technologies but Old Methods in Terrorism Financing
CTF Online Symposium No. 10: Public-Private Partnership for Countering Terrorism Financing
CTF Online Symposium No. 1: The Lebanese Hezbollah Financing Threat in Europe
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Each week as 2021 quickly comes to a close, the Project CRAAFT team reflects on the work we have accomplished this year and all that’s still to come in 2022.