Events Calendar

Through September and October 2023, with the support of the French and German governments, the IIJ’s Academic Unit launched a new “Counter-Terrorism: Academic Curriculum” programme designed to strengthen the skills of judges in charge of terrorism proceedings in West Africa...

After the launch of CT PHARE – Counter-Terrorism Platform for Human Rights Engagement in March 2023, the new global facility has implemented its second Capacity Building Activity on human rights-based decision-making model (DMM) in the Middle East and North Africa...

Radicalization as a Basis for Violence and Terrorism: What is the Media’s Role?Speaker: Ambassador Namira NegmLanguage(s): English and Arabic

In June 2023, the IIJ convened the Workshop on Improving Mutual Legal Assistance Mechanisms between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania within the framework of the Global Central Authorities Initiative. The event was organized with the generous financial support of the Government...

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The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law was pleased to welcome a delegation from the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies (KIJLS) in Malta. Executive Secretary, Mr. Steven Hill, met with Counsellors Hani Al Hamdan, Tareq...

After the launch of CT PHARE – Counter-Terrorism Platform for Human Rights Engagement in March 2023, the new global facility has implemented its first Capacity Building Activity on the roles and responsibilities of Oversight and Accountability Mechanisms in countering terrorism. From...

The IIJ is pleased to invite you to the third virtual meeting for this year. The main theme is “Counter-terrorism and International Humanitarian Law: legal tensions, practical challenges, and possible solutions” presented by David McKeever. This event will be in...

On 24-25 May, IIJ welcomed 55 practitioners (prosecutors, investigators, judges) and policymakers from 20 countries and nine international humanitarian organisations, including UN agencies and academic institutions, to a meeting on Repatriating Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Displaced Persons from Northeast Syria,...

We are pleased to have welcomed our Board Members to Malta for a highly productive and fruitful meeting on 22 and 23 May. Our Governing Board of Administrators (GBA) includes representatives from the governments of Algeria, France, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait,...

From 16 – 26 May, the IIJ Academic Unit continued its important work frontline criminal justice practitioners by delivering its Counter-Terrorism Academic Curriculum (CTAC) course. This immersive, foundational course – funded by the United States of America’s Department of State...

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On April 25-26, the IIJ was pleased to resume its important work on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism (REMVE) by hosting an expert roundtable on radicalisation to violence among active and retired military and law enforcement personnel. The roundtable,...

On 12-14 April 2023, the IIJ returned to Nairobi for the third of five activities under the Canada-funded project to strengthen mutual legal assistance in Kenya and Somalia. The National Consultation for Kenyan Stakeholders assisted Kenyan practitioners from competent authorities...

The IIJ is pleased to invite you to the second virtual meeting for this year. The main theme is “Counter terrorism in the Sahel region” with our Visiting Fellow Cheibou Samna. This event will be fully in French with the...

From 10-12 April 2023, the IIJ travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the first Africa Children Summit and hold a side event on Criminal Justice Approaches to Children in a Counter-Terrorism Context. The side event, generously financed by the U.S....

The IIJ has officially launched CT PHARE – Platform for Human Rights Engagement, the new global facility in support of the EU External Action’s Council Conclusions on Preventing and Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism of June 2020, with an exceptional...

From 8-10 March, the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ), in collaboration with the Philippines’ Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC), travelled to Manila to convene its first in-person post-COVID regional juvenile justice programme in South...

From 6 – 16 March, the IIJ Academic Unit delivered its first Arabic-language in-person course for frontline criminal justice practitioners from the Middle East and North Africa. The course employed a contextualised version of the Academic Unit’s ground-breaking Counter-Terrorism Academic...

In February, the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ), returned to Niamey, Niger, to continue the important work it is doing with criminal justice practitioners there. The delegation, led by Executive Secretary Steven Hill and joined...