Organizers: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences
Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center, State of Qatar

Doha High-Level Meeting on Fighting Corruption and Extremism:
"Combating Extremism through Fighting Corruption and Promoting Islamic and Universal Values"
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Background

As the lead entity of the UN Secretariat in assisting countries to address global challenges with interfaith and intercultural dimensions, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) actively supports Member States in addressing rising tensions that appear through the faces of radicalization, violence and extremism. In October 2015, the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center in the State of Qatar, in coordination with International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences will hold a Meeting on Fighting Corruption and Extremism "Combating Extremism through Fighting Corruption and Promoting Islamic and Universal Values". This meeting will occasion a much-needed opportunity to advance cooperation in addressing the world’s global public good through the advancement and maintenance of international regimes of laws and institutions. Cultural and religious values play key role in advancing the global efforts to combat these challenges on the path of achieving sustainable development.

This event that will focus on the underlying human values, including Islamic values that can serve as core for some legal systems in order to organize regional and international actions to fight corruption and to reaffirm a culture of peace. We are currently witnessing severe crises indiscriminately affecting regions of the global north and south. Nevertheless, the majority of victims and deaths from corruption and terrorism are of a South-South rather than South-North nature. This approach allows us to recalibrate the necessity of effective and fair counterterrorism and counter-corruption objectives in line with the goals of sustainable development and human rights. We cannot understate relationship between radicalization-extremism-violence, where the absence of development can create the conditions for radicalization. The absence of development can create the conditions for radicalization and corruption while the existence of violent extremism can impede advances towards Sustainable Human Development.

This event that will focus on the underlying human values, including Islamic values that can serve as core for some legal systems in order to organize regional and international actions to fight corruption and to reaffirm a culture of peace. We are currently witnessing severe crises indiscriminately affecting regions of the global north and south. Nevertheless, the majority of victims and deaths from corruption and terrorism are of a South-South rather than South-North nature. This approach allows us to recalibrate the necessity of effective and fair counterterrorism and counter-corruption objectives in line with the goals of sustainable development and human rights. We cannot understate relationship between radicalization-extremism-violence, where the absence of development can create the conditions for radicalization. The absence of development can create the conditions for radicalization and corruption while the existence of violent extremism can impede advances towards Sustainable Human Development.
To overcome these challenges, we must recall that the United Nations Charter is a foundational treaty for international peace, allowing Member States to cooperate on social, political and economic levels. Various UN Secretariats, such as the Security Council, the General Assembly’s main committees and subsidiary bodies, the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Alliance of Civilizations and other UN agencies and programs, have been created with the necessary tools and a shared-responsibility to address these challenges.
The Meeting on Combatting Extremism through Islamic - Universal Values and fighting corruption, is to revolve around the following four key themes:

1) Fighting Corruption and other sociopolitical defects as means to counter radicalization and extremism: Doha meeting of 2015 on The Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

2) The link between Development and Radicalization

3) The Contribution of Sharia , Islamic and Universal values and Human Rights Charters in combating extremism.
4) Acts of Violence Committed by Radical Groups Violate Islamic Law-The Sharia