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[Counter-terrorism] ‘The repatriation of the children of former IS fighters should be matter of urgency rather than a political choice’
12 June 2020The safe repatriation of the children of former IS fighters living in Syria and Iraq is urgent and has been unnecessarily delayed by court proceedings, writes Asser researcher Dr Rumyana van Ark, who recently signed a book contract with the publisher Edward El...
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[Recording] Webinar: Challenges to Prosecuting Paramilitaries: Insights from the former Yugoslavia and Syria
8 June 2020June 3, 2020 saw the very first online Supranational Criminal Law (SCL) lecture, titled ‘Challenges to Prosecuting Paramilitaries: Insights from the former Yugoslavia and Syria’. The SCL lecture series is organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in coopera...
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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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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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[Recording] Asser live webinar ‘Counter-terrorism & the law: A forever and anywhere war’
19 May 2020On Monday May 18, T.M.C. Asser Instituut hosted its first online live discussion, in which Asser Institute counterterrorism experts Dr Rumyana van Ark and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi provided a legal perspective on current affairs. In the session Counterterrorism &...
