Online Resources

The Database of Legislation on Definition of Terrorism records countries’ legislation defining terrorism. Consequential penalties for committing or supporting acts of terrorism are also recorded. 

As a practical, evolving and growing tool, the RAN Collection includes more than 200 inspiring practices and is a convincing testimony to the progress that is being made in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). It is continually expanding to include more practices to provide a valuable source of information and inspiration for practitioners, policymakers and researchers. The Collection offers practitioners, policymakers and researchers the opportunity to draw inspiration from existing practices and to find examples adaptable to their local/specific context.

ICCT has developed the Database on Interlinkages between Terrorism and International Crimes as a collection of cases in which terrorists have been tried for core international crimes, covering all countries where trials for terrorism and war crimes have occurred. The information gathered is being analysed to identify challenges, areas for development, and good practice in prosecuting individuals both for terrorism and for any other crimes they may have committed, including crimes against girls and women.

CeMAS (Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy) has been systematically recording right-wing terrorist activities in Germany since 2011. Indeed, the National Socialist Underground (NSU)'s self-exposure in November 2011 made it clear how highly professional right-wing terrorist networks were able to murder undisturbed in Germany for years - also in view of the involvement of investigative authorities and intelligence services, which has not yet been fully clarified. for the first time.

The European Database of Terrorist Offenders (EDT) is a research database comprising comprehensive judicial information on European terrorist and violent extremist offenders convicted from 2012 onwards.

The Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) Knowledge Hub is a trusted source for quantitative and qualitative data on FTFs who travelled to Syria and Iraq in support of terrorist or violent extremist groups, and government responses to the FTF challenge. It is a valuable resource for policymakers, researchers, and media.

The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events worldwide from 1970 through 2020 (with annual updates planned for the future).

The ICD is the most comprehensive open source counterterrorism database available today with more than 370 million data points on terrorist, rebel, proxy and separatist groups. The ICD contains 17 different database components covering raw terrorist materials such as video and audio releases, photos, graphics, magazines, books, training manuals and cyber tools as well as link analysis charts, dynamic maps, hostage data, terrorist messages, incident reports, terrorist logos, identity data, terrorist social media accounts, emails and phone numbers and more going back to the early 1990s. 

The International Crimes Database (ICD) website, hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague and supported by the ICCT, offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, as well as international and internationalised courts.