The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is organizing the Third Regional Coordination Conference for Counter-Terrorism (CT) and Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in South East Europe (SEE), together with the Government of Turkey and the Integrative Internal Security Governance (IISG), on 6 December 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The conference represents a functional follow-up of the second Regional CT and P/CVE Coordination Conference, held in Brdo pri Kranju (Slovenia) on 30 November 2017 and will gather representatives of national governments, international and regional organisations and initiatives active in the area of counterterrorism, prevention and countering violent extremism in South East Europe to discuss enhancement  of cooperation and coordination of CT and P/CVE programmes and activities in this region. 

The event will tackle topics such as Cyber Security and Online Radicalization, Regional Coherence in P/CVE in SEE and Sustainable solution to preventing the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in the context of the overall CT resilience.

Back to back with the conference, Meeting of the National Focal Point Group for Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism will be held.