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By Dr. Lorne L. Dawson. The study of homegrown jihadi terrorist radicalisation has veered from early efforts to theorise what was happening, which were often insufficiently grounded in empirical evidence, to a reticence to theorise much at all, given the perceived complexity of the phenomenon. Yet knowledge acquisition and mobilisation in this relatively new field […]

In December 2016, the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) convened an evening seminar entitled ‘Drone Strikes and Counter-Terror Wars Legal Perspectives and Recommendations for European States’. This report outlines the key findings of the latest research on the use of armed drones.

As the military defeat of IS in the Levant is becoming a more tangible reality and the number of foreign fighters returning to their countries of origin is surpassing that of those leaving, governments are faced with the question of what to do with potentially dangerous returned and returning foreign fighters. Several articles, including ones […]

This regional meeting is part of the project “Engaging Civil Society Actors in the Rehabilitation & Reintegration of Violent Extremist Offenders and Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters“. From 13-14 December 2016, ICCT, the Global Center on Cooperative Security and the Centre for Sustainable Development and Education in Africa, convened the first of three regional meetings developed […]

In October 2016, the coalition-backed operation to recapture the city of Mosul was initiated. Notwithstanding its early territorial successes, it soon became clear that the campaign would take much longer than its predicted two months. The so-called Islamic State (IS) had been anticipating and preparing for it for quite literally years and, as such, advancing […]

On 30 December 2016, ICCT Research Fellow Bart Schuurman was featured in the Middle East Eye. In the article ‘The terror forecast for 2017’, Bart Schuurman and other terrorism scholars were invited to comment on terrorism prospects in 2017. Besides discussing current and expected developments of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the scholars also commented […]

On 21 February 2017, The Economist is hosting the Global Illicit Trade Summit in Brussels. The summit will explore the influence of counterfeiting and illicit trade on consumer goods as well as what needs to be done to uphold the rule of law, protect society, and enforce global supply chains. As ICCT Director, Dr. Alastair Reed is […]

On 20 November 2016, the Spanish newspaper El País published an article that examines the preparedness within Europe for a potential increasing influx of returning foreign fighters when the so-called Islamic State looses its power in Syria and Iraq. In the article, ICCT Research Fellow Dr. Christophe Paulussen states that prosecution and detention of returning foreign […]

On 30 December, the Italian news broadcaster Rai News published an article referring to the latest ICCT Policy Brief by ICCT Research Fellow Tanya Mehra. The article casts a look back at the death of Saddam Hussein ten years ago and the political situation today in Iraq, characterised by sectarian strife and the atrocities committed by the […]