ICCT’s 2025 Advanced Counter-Terrorism Summer Programme on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law

Co-organised with the Asser Institute, the 15th edition of ICCT’s Advanced Summer Programme on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law will focus on counter-terrorism in the digital age. Participants will have the unique opportunity to network and engage directly with fellow professionals in the field.

Confirmed components of the programme include:

  • Opening keynote: Definitional debates and current challenges by Prof. Ben Saul – UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights;
  • Pathways to extremism and terrorism;
  • EU regulation of online spaces;
  • Online radicalisation;
  • Conflict zones or terrorism ‘hot spots’: the evolution of (violent) extremist actors and geographies;
  • Study visits to Europol and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW);
  • Critical discussions under the Chatham House Rule

Download the preliminary programme (to-be-updated).

Who should attend?

  • Policymakers, Civil Servants, Diplomats
  • Academics, PhD Candidates, and Advanced Students
  • Practitioners, Security Services
  • Professionals in the NGO Sector, National and International Experts

After successful completion of this summer school, participants will receive a certificate from the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism.