Peter Knoope – Associate Fellow
Peter Knoope is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Since his departure as Director of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague in August 2014, Peter Knoope is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Until mid 2009, he was Deputy Director of the Policy and Strategy Department of the Dutch National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism (NCTb). The NCTb was established in 2005, following the terrorist attacks in Madrid of 11 March 2004 and the killing of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, and is responsible for the development and coordination of the government wide counter-terrorism strategy in the Netherlands. He was involved in the development of the NCTb from its inception and was responsible for the coordination between the Dutch government’s national and international counter-terrorism policy.
He is a career diplomat who has inter alia been posted as Head of Mission to Afghanistan. Prior to this posting, he headed the Humanitarian Aid section at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was responsible for the Dutch response to foreign crisis situations. Before taking up his position at the Humanitarian Aid section, he was spokesperson for the Minister for Development Cooperation. He has also worked in development cooperation and research programmes in Tanzania, Cameroon and Senegal.
Key Publications include:
Knoope, P. “About Fear, Terrorism and What is Really New”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 5 (2014).
Knoope, P. “Identity Issues and Alliance Dilemmas in the Middle East”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 5 (2014).
Knoope, P. “AQAP: A Local Problem, A Global Concern”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 4 (2013).
Knoope, P. “The Declining Legitimacy of the Pakistan Taliban”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 3 (2012).
Knoope, P. “Strategic Re-Orientation Underlined by Two New International Counter-Terrorism Initiatives”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 3 (2012).
Knoope, P. and E. Kessels. “The End of an Age of Terror? The Death of Osama bin Laden”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 2 (2011).
Knoope, P. and E. Kessels. “Al Qaeda’s Final Dance: a Deadly Tango for Two”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 2 (2011).
Knoope, P. and A. Bunnink. “Why the People of Tunisia and Egypt Confirm the Bankruptcy of al Qaeda’s Tactics”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 2 (2011).
Knoope, P. and E. Kessels. “9/11 Nine Years On”, Perspectives, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague 1 (2010).
E-mail: pknoope@icct.nl
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ICCT Fellows and Associates have written articles, op-eds and interviews on the topic of Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communications:
By Haroro J. Ingram and Alastair Reed. Drawing on the Counter-terrorism Strategic Communication (CTSC) Project’s research paper “A Brief History of Propaganda during Conflict“, this Policy Brief lays out the key policy-relevant lessons for developing effective counter-terrorism strategic communications. It presents a framework of interrelated macro-, mezzo- and micro-level considerations for maximizing the efficacy of not […]
By Bart Schuurman, Peter Grol and Scott Flower. Converts to Islam represent a small percentage of the Muslim community in Western countries. Yet when it comes to Islamist extremism and terrorism, research has suggested that converts are considerably overrepresented. This ICCT Policy Brief serves as an introduction to this topic by providing an overview of […]