NATO working with Jordan on counter-terrorism

Earlier this month, NATO trained Jordan Armed Forces to further the development of a whole-of-government approach to counter-terrorism.

The first NATO train-the-trainer Counter-Terrorism programme was attended by thirty people from the Jordan Armed Forces and the Jordan Military Center for Counter Terrorism and Extremism (MCCTE).

The training was held at the MCCTE which is the body responsible for reinforcing the whole-of-government counter-terrorism approach.

The programme was specifically tailored to Jordan's priorities under the framework of NATO’s Defence and Related Security Capacity Building (DCB) Initiative, which Jordan has been a beneficiary of since 2014.

The programme covered topics including current and emerging terrorist challenges; use of technologies in terrorism; terrorist tactics and strategies; terrorist methods in cyber space, and women, peace and security in a terrorist context.

Content for the programme was developed from the NATO Counter-Terrorism Reference Curriculum (CTRC). The CTRC was developed by 110 experts across the world, and contains expertise on modern terrorist challenges and promotes effective tools for developing Counter-Terrorism strategies.

The programme also aims to focus on in-country training capacity and enable expertise and experience sharing between NATO and the Jordan Armed Forces.

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