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[Online training programmes] Register now for our upcoming training programmes
4 August 2020Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) are two of our most important global issues. Governments continue to struggle with how to respond to terrorist attacks and WMDS were recently used in Syria, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia. Find out more about ...
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[Online] Advanced summer programme terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law
27 July 2020Terrorist attacks have triggered an increase in security-related legislative provisions across the world. A wide range of new or updated administrative and criminal law measures is meant to bolster states’ ability to respond to acts of terrorism, and to addres...
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[New paper] Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: The continuing saga of state responsibility for the conduct of peacekeeping forces
13 July 2020This weekend marked 25 years since the start of the genocide in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, where over the course of eleven days, more than eight thousand people were killed. Asser researcher Dr Berenice Boutin and Dr Nataša Nedeski (Universiteit van A...
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[Analysis] Dutch Supreme Court rules on the group repatriation of the families of IS fighters: ‘We expect that more individual court cases will now be started”
26 June 2020This morning the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands does not have to repatriate a group of 23 Dutch women and their 56 children currently detained in Northern Syria. Asser counterterrorism researchers Dr Christophe Pauluss...
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Call for Papers on expert panel manuals for the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
23 June 2020T.M.C. Asser Press and the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (YIHL) are inviting authors to submit contributions to Vol. 23 (2020) of YIHL on expert panel manuals. Manuals on the law of armed conflict come in different guises. ...
