Upon request of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, ODIHR also contributed to a training event for 20 committee members of the Parliament of Montenegro, held in Bar on 19 and 20 July, including representatives of the Security and Defence Committee that exercises oversight of the police and other security bodies. As part of the training, ODIHR invited a representative of the CoE to deliver a session on the obligations contained in the CoE’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, which Montenegro ratified in 2013. Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism From 16-19 April, ODIHR, together with the OSCE BMSC, successfully delivered a training session on “Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism and Border Security”, held in Dushanbe. The training session provided 26 border and customs officials from 12 OSCE participating States and two Partners for Co-operation with a better understanding of ways to protect human rights while securing borders from terrorism. On 29 November, the TNTD/SPMU and ODIHR launched a new publication on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations: A Practical Manual for Law Enforcement Officers in Vienna.33 This manual adopts an operational approach to explore the different phases of counter-terrorism investigations and their potential impact on human rights. It covers issues such as information-gathering and intelligence; witnesses and crime scene examination; the arrest, detention and questioning of terrorism suspects; and the integrity and accountability of investigations. This new tool complements ODIHR’s manual and training module on Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights, which focuses on the international human rights standards and OSCE commitments applicable in the anti-terrorism context.34 In 2013, ODIHR was revising this training module with the objective of developing an operational and skills-based training curriculum for police, as well as a trainers’ manual and a ToT programme. In order to gather information on potential challenges that counter-terrorism officers may face in their daily work, ODIHR conducted a series of consultations with current and former officers and civil society organizations in Northern Ireland/UK, Spain and the United States. A first consolidated draft of the training curriculum for police was discussed with police trainers, current and former counter-terrorism officers, civil society organizations and OSCE executive structures during a peer-review meeting held in Warsaw on 4-5 November. ODIHR planned to continue developing these new training tools in 2014. Throughout 2013, ODIHR and the TNTD continued to develop the Guidebook on Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT): a Community Policing Approach, which was planned to be launched in March 2014. A peer-review meeting on the Guidebook was held in Warsaw on 6-7 March, and gathered 12 experts in human rights, counter-terrorism and police (including 3 women and 9 men). In addition, between May and June, a distance peer-review to support the Guidebook’s drafting process was conducted with the participation of 50 experts (including 15 women and 35 men) from among national authorities, civil society organizations, academia, as well as international organizations and OSCE executive structures. The Guidebook was designed to provide guidance to policy-makers and senior police officials on how to incorporate community-policing as part of a human rights-compliant approach to preventing and countering VERLT. It could also serve as a useful resource to members of civil society, in particular community leaders. 33 34 156 See: <http://www.osce.org/odihr/108930>. See: <http://www.osce.org/odihr/29103>.