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The 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...

June 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...

Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has received an Early Career Partnership Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She will receive € 10,000 to organise a meeting to expand interdisciplinary cooperation in order to gain n...

In cooperation with (inter)national partners such as, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, ICCT The Hague and OPCW, T.M.C. Asser will bring you four unique training courses in 2020. Sign up now to advance your career!   Covid-19 update Due to the coro...

Terrorism 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 ...