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Call for Expressions of Interest: Individual Experts on CBRN Risk Mitigation and Security Governance
![Call for Expressions of Interest: Individual Experts on CBRN Risk Mitigation and Security Governance]( "Call for Expressions of Interest: Individual Experts on CBRN Risk Mitigation and Security Governance")
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), through its CBRN Risk Mitigation and Security Governance Unit, is expanding its pool of experts in the area of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) risk mitigation and security governance. The Institute therefore invites individual experts to express their interest in contributing to its activities aimed at strengthening global efforts in the prevention, detection and response to CBRN risks.
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First International EU CBRN Donors Coordination Meeting Strengthens Cooperation in South East and Eastern Europe
![First International EU CBRN Donors Coordination Meeting Strengthens Cooperation in South East and Eastern Europe]( "First International EU CBRN Donors Coordination Meeting Strengthens Cooperation in South East and Eastern Europe")
South East and Eastern Europe strengthened regional cooperation on CBRN risk mitigation through the first International CBRN Donors Coordination Meeting, enhancing preparedness, coordination and support for national and regional priorities organized under the European Union CBRN Centres of Excellence Initiative.
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OPCW and UNICRI Advance Chemical Security in Asia Through Regional Legislative Workshop in Manila with the EU funding
![OPCW and UNICRI Advance Chemical Security in Asia Through Regional Legislative Workshop in Manila]( "OPCW and UNICRI Advance Chemical Security in Asia Through Regional Legislative Workshop in Manila")
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), in partnership with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), successfully convened a regional Workshop on Implementing and Enforcing Legislation: The Chemical Weapons Convention and Chemical Security in Asia in Manila from 2 to 4 June 2026.
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UNICRI and the Public Prosecution Office of Egypt Strengthen Cooperation to Combat Intellectual Property Crime
![New partnership begins with specialized workshop on investigative and prosecutorial responses to intellectual property crime]( "New partnership begins with specialized workshop on investigative and prosecutorial responses to intellectual property crime")
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the Public Prosecution Office of Egypt (represented by Judicial Inspection department, Training and Capacity Building office) have strengthened their cooperation through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at enhancing research, technical cooperation and capacity-building in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.
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Nihilistic Violent Extremism? Understanding the ‘Com Network’ and Emerging Violent and Coercive Online Networks
![Nihilistic Violent Extremism? Understanding the ‘Com Network’ and Emerging Violent and Coercive Online Networks]( "Nihilistic Violent Extremism? Understanding the ‘Com Network’ and Emerging Violent and Coercive Online Networks")
A new and rapidly evolving form of online harm is attracting growing international attention. Characterized by violence, coercion, exploitation, self-harm and criminality, the so-called “Com Network” challenges traditional policy, security and safeguarding frameworks and defy easy categorization as terrorism, violent extremism or crime.
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A Goal for Peace: Sport, and Dialogue Bring Young People Together in Southern Italy
![A Goal for Peace: Sport, and Dialogue Bring Young People Together in Southern Italy]( "A Goal for Peace: Sport, and Dialogue Bring Young People Together in Southern Italy")
Young people from Lebanon and Italy came together through sport, dialogue and shared values, demonstrating how inclusion, legality and community engagement can help build pathways to peace.
At a time when conflict continues to affect, young people from different backgrounds came together in Southern Italy to speak a different language: that of sport, dialogue and peace.
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Training Week Strengthens Trilateral Cooperation between Italy, UNICRI and Mexico and on Countering Organized Crime in Prisons
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Launch Webinar: “Dangerous Liaisons Report on the Terrorism–Crime Nexus in Africa”
![Dangerous Liaisons Report on the Terrorism–Crime Nexus in Africa]( "Dangerous Liaisons Report on the Terrorism–Crime Nexus in Africa")
On 29 May 2026, a panel of experts presented and discussed the findings of the recently published UNICRI report Dangerous Liaisons: Assessing the Nexus between Terrorism and Criminal Activities in Africa.
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Preparing Schools for the AI Era
![AI Literacy for Schools - OpenAI]( "AI Literacy for Schools - OpenAI")
The Centre for AI and Robotics of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) launches the project AI Literacy for Schools: Training Teachers for a Changing World, in collaboration with OpenAI under the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Youth & Wellbeing Grant. The programme supports ins
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