Center for Strategic Communication

Event recap: The FIIS Working Group Winter Symposium

On December 4th, the Financial Intelligence and Information Sharing (FIIS) Working Group hosted its winter symposium at the American Bar Association in Washington, DC. It was the first event hosted by the Working Group since becoming an element of the American...

Threat Finance and Financial Intelligence

Threat finance is an enabling factor of crime and terrorism, and therefore, a challenge to both national and international security. The integration of global financial systems, as well as technological innovation and proliferation, has reduced barriers to threat...

Mali – Timeline and Factsheet

On November 13, 2012, the African Union approved an ECOWAS plan for a military intervention in Mali that may eventually expand to include elements from the EU and UN.  Though the plan still requires UN endorsement, it is increasingly clear that military operations are...