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Online course: Advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law
3 June 2020Terrorism can occur in any country, at any time and at any place. Although most of the world is focused on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, April and May 2020 saw daily terrorist attacks across the globe. Knife attacks, bombings, attacks by drones and missiles ...
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Research collaboration between the Hofstad Lyceum and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
1 June 2020Since the spring of 2018, the Asser Institute has worked with the Hofstad Lyceum, a secondary school in The Hague with an enrolment of about 1,000. Within this framework, graduation-year students are offered the opportunity to do their mandatory thesis project...
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Disarmament and non-proliferation training in times of renewed nuclear unpredictability
27 May 2020Recently, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-Un made his first public appearance in weeks where he pledged to “further boost its nuclear capabilities”. Around the same time the Trump administration has discussed the US first nuclear test in decades. While t...
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The Belarusian response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Denial and a military parade
25 May 2020Belarus is the only European country, next to Sweden, that has not imposed quarantine measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Belarusian President has repeatedly denied the scope and seriousness of the pandemic and, instead, held a large military...
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[Blog post] The beginning of the end of a home-grown African Court?
20 May 2020 By Misha PlagisLast month, when most of the world was focused on COVID-19, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire withdrew their special declarations from the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. This happened right at a time when things began to look good for one of the most import...