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Join ICCT, the Global Center on Cooperative Security (Global Center), the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, in New York for an event on Youth Engagement and Resilience Against Violent Extremism in the Sahel.

This paper critically compares seven widely used risk assessment tools for violent extremism, including the VERA-2R, the ERG 22+, the SQAT, the IR46, the RRAP, the Radar, and the VAF. For each risk assessment method, the authors (1) provide background information about its country of origin, the field of expertise/discipline within which they were created, […]

This study focuses on increasing our understanding of the different pathways converts take during conversion to Islam. It looks specifically at the following research question: “How do the pathways of converts involved in jihadist movements differ from those of converts who are not, in terms of their life prior to Islam, their conversion experience and […]

Introduction The cases considered in Part 1 have illustrated what steps the UK family courts are willing to take in regard to children radicalised at home. In these cases, the courts have demonstrated an ability to be discerning and proactive when faced with new evidence or events impacting on the ongoing welfare of a child. […]

Advanced Media Training for Malian Youth 21-22 August 2019 Bamako, Mali Since 2012, Mali has experienced an increasing number of attacks by terrorist groups, particularly in the north of the country. The security and humanitarian situation has been further undermined by instances of collaboration between terrorist groups and criminal networks, including traffickers of drugs and […]

MERIT Newsflash No. 21 is out! To read about the MERIT Project update and the latest development in Mali, follow this link. If you have any remarks, questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us! To subscribe to the bi-weekly MERIT Newsflash, click here.

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This paper synthesises research on post-incident communications from a range of fields – including terrorism, crisis communications, mass-shooter incidents, serial offenders, and suicide studies – to identify guidelines for the development of a post-terrorist incident communications framework. Key Findings and Recommendations Terrorism is fundamentally a type of violent communication designed to influence audiences broader than […]

This paper aims to provide practitioners and academics with an empirical approach for assessing the current state and future directions of the Salafi-Jihadi Movement’s (SJM) member organisations. Making use of available data, it taps into the Islamic State’s (IS) and al-Qaeda’s (AQ) strategic priorities. Then, the article maps and examines various strategies of the broader […]

ICCT Senior Research Fellow Liesbeth van der Heide was interviewed by The New York Times about repatriating FTFs and their families. She argued that governments are hesitant to experiment with deradicalisation programmes for former FTFs and their families as the risk is too high. Read the full article here.