VERLT. In this context, the seminar explored how a Public-Private Partnerships and a community policing approach can contribute to countering VERLT as part of an effective, comprehensive approach to preventing and combating terrorism. From 6-8 December, the TNTD/ATU convened and moderated a panel session on ‘Women’s Roles in Countering Violent Extremism Radicalization that lead to Terrorism’ during the “5th International Symposium on Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime” organized by the Turkish National Police Academy in Antalya, Turkey. Travel Document Security From 21-23 May, the TNTD/ATU, in co-operation with the OSCE Office in Yerevan, organized a seminar promoting Armenia’s participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory (ICAO PKD). The event gathered 20 Armenian representatives from passport, border and police authorities to learn how the ICAO PKD functions as a multilateral technical platform to validate the authenticity of electronic Passports (ePassports). The seminar highlighted the inseparable link between ePassports and the ICAO PKD and their joint implementation as a best practice to technologically upgrade travel documents and border control. This seminar was timely as Armenia started to issue biometric passports in June 2012. The seminar took into account the OSCE Ministerial Council Decision on Travel Document Security – ICAO Public Key Directory (MC.DEC/11/09) and was designed to provide Armenian officials with the necessary information to support their participation in the ICAO PKD. On the margins of the seminar, the TNTD/ATU conducted bilateral meetings with Armenian counterparts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Security Service/Border Troops, the Ministry of Interior, Police, the INTERPOL NCB and Customs Service. TNTD/ATU activities on Travel Document Security including joining ICAO PKD were discussed as well as prospects for future activities. On 26-27 November, the TNTD/ATU and ODIHR co-organized a roundtable in Warsaw on “Addressing the Link between Travel Document Security and Population Registration/Civil Registration Documents and Processes”. The roundtable gathered a selected group of 20 Travel Document Security and Civil Registry experts to explore the practices criminals and terrorists employ to obtain genuine travel documents (including electronic Passports) under a fake identity. One key objective of the roundtable was to identify potential contributions by the TNTD/ATU and ODIHR to address disconnects between travel document issuance systems and civil registry systems which are increasingly being abused by criminals. Among other suggestions, experts highlighted the need for the OSCE to look at Travel Document Security in a more holistic manner, and to adapt to and further complement relevant work by ICAO on identification management. Specifically, experts pointed to the newly adopted ICAO Traveller Identification Strategy (TRIP), which focuses not only on the security of travel documents, but also on related issuance processes and their inter-linkages to modernized civil registries. The Strategy also looks at the use of travel documents as part of comprehensive and integrated border solutions to facilitate fast and secure trans-border movement. A list of recommendations on how TNTD/ATU and ODIHR can contribute to strengthening the link between travel document issuance systems and civil registry identity management systems was planned to be shared with delegations in 2014. ****** 38