Online Resources

The Terrorist and Organised Criminal Search Database (TOC) search database provides data and information on terrorist incidents, terrorist groups, members and group leaders. It also contains information on organised crime.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events worldwide. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.

The database records all convictions for domestic terrorism in the Balkans. Its coverage includes domestic terrorism convictions in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.

This database provides an overview of many of the symbols most frequently used by a variety of white supremacist groups and movements, as well as some other types of hate groups. The ADL Center for Antisemitism Research is founded to focus on applied research and evaluation to test, measure and identify impact in the fight against this hatred. It aims to answer questions about how to quantify, understand and prevent antisemitism.

The Islamic State Selected Worldwide Activity is an interactive map that provides a novel, accessible way to understand the Islamic State’s global reach and activities, offering a clearer illustration than text alone could do. It also moves beyond a traditional scholarly focus on attack data, offering content from IS media, designations, and legal cases.

The Countering Lone-Actor Terrorism Database (CLAT) recorded incidents of lone-actor terrorism in thirty European countries (EU, Norway and Switzerland).

The Rule of Law Responses to Terrorism Programme at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) has compiled a database of domestic cases in which terrorists have been tried for core international crimes. ICCT has collected domestic cases in which terrorists have been cumulatively tried for international crimes and terrorism. This means that the database does not include cases in which alleged terrorists were only prosecuted for core international crimes.

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.