Within the current Plan of Action aiming at supporting Libya's efforts towards the development and implementation of a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy in the fight against terrorism, as well as at promoting an effective and rule of law-based comprehensive criminal justice response to terrorism and responding to the specific request by the Libyan authorities, the UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch (UNODC/TPB) has been delivering a series of specialized thematic capacity building training courses for criminal justice and law enforcement officials in criminal matters related to terrorism.
The workshop took place in Amman, Jordan, on 28 and 29 November 2015 and was attended by 17 judges and prosecutors, including the Deputy Director, the Director of Programmes and a number of trainers from the Libyan High Judicial Institute (HJI).
The goal of the national workshop was to present the technical tools (i.e. training curriculum and publications) produced by UNODC/TPB to Libyan criminal justice officials, including the trainers from the Libyan HJI, for inclusion in its training curriculum.
During the two-day workshop, experts from UNODC/TPB presented the modules of the training curriculum and relevant technical publications produced by the Branch. UNODC/TPB experts delivered presentations on each manual and each module, highlighting a wide range of topics covered along with the related challenges. Furthermore, the occasion provided an opportunity to outline best practices included in the tools.
In order to provide the participants with a concrete example on how the training curriculum could be used for trainings at the HJI, practical case studies were analyzed by the participants with UNODC/TPB experts' guidance.
The Deputy Director and the Director of Programmes of the HIJ, with full support of all trainers and criminal justice officials participating, fully endorsed the UNODC/TPB proposal to include the counter-terrorism training curriculum as an integrated part of both the initial and the continuous HJI learning curricula.
Libyan trainee judges will be provided with hard copies of the technical tools (i.e. counter-terrorism training curriculum modules and publications) through the HJI. This action will constitute a "first contact" approach for the trainers and trainees with international instruments and practices to prevent and combat terrorism.
Moreover, UNODC/TPB will, in cooperation with trainers of the Libyan HJI, develop training modules on different legal aspects to prevent and combat terrorism. These modules will then be included in the relevant HJI training curriculum, first in the programme related to international law , and later in the regular criminal law and criminal procedureprogramme.