Dr. Rumyana van Ark (née Grozdanova) is a Senior Researcher in International Law at the Asser Institute of the University of Amsterdam where she coordinates all international law and counter-terrorism related research and project activities. She is also a senior member and coordinator of the Implementing Team on a range of GCTF Initiatives including the US and Norway-led Initiative on Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism (REMVE), the US and UK led Initiative on Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems and New, Emerging, and Disruptive Technologies and the US and UNOCT led Initiative on Border Security Management (BSM). In 2021, she was part of the consortium team of experts within the European Commission funded Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) as well as part of the team evaluating the operation of EU Directive 2017/541 on Combatting Terrorism. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a member of the Advisory Board of the PREPARE Project (https://prepare-project.eu/). Her first peer-reviewed works were published in 2013. Since then, her work has been published in various academic and professional journals, as part of edited book collections and within governmental reports. Her co-authored book on ‘Children’s Rights, ‘Foreign Fighters’ and Counter-Terrorism: Children of Nowhere’ has just been published within the Elgar Studies in Human Rights collection in September 2024.
Key ICCT Publication:
Van Ark, R., Boutin, B. and Paulussen, C. “A comparative research study on radical and extremist (hate) speakers in European member states”
