Willemijn Tiekstra
Willemijn Tiekstra is a research fellow at ICCT. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Clingendael Institute. Having a legal background, she focuses on migration, the implementation of European migration policies in particular. Topics falling within her mandate include: border management, Common European Asylum System Reforms and EU cooperation with third countries. Her work thus focuses on implementation of internal EU policies as well as EU external relations with African countries.
Willemijn is Master of Laws and has completed her Masters in International and European Law at the University of Groningen. Prior to working at the Clingendael Institute, Willemijn has worked as a Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hague and at the Netherlands Embassy in Athens.
In this Perspective, I aim to illustrate that although the crime-terror nexus has attracted significant attention of late, it is not a new phenomenon, and has past iterations that offer useful lessons for its present form. I reference my own experience as a police officer in Scotland and draw parallels to far older diaspora communities […]
As a service to ICCT’s readers, ICCT Associate Fellow Dr. Donald Holbrook summarises key points of his work and makes suggestions for further reading. Research Summary ‘What types of media do terrorists collect?’ analyses religious, political, or other ideological media publications that were uncovered in police investigations relating to individuals convicted of involvement in Islamist-inspired […]
A number of Indonesian nationals who support the self-styled Islamic State have now returned home from the Middle East. Some may have received military training or even seen combat, but so far the majority have been those who failed in their attempts to enter Syria and Iraq from Turkey and were subsequently deported. While recent […]