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The Society for Terrorism Research the Australian National University (ANU)'s Centre for Social Policy Research (POLIS) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 18th Annual International Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research between December 09–11, 2026.
As changes in the national and international security ecosystem continue apace, we encourage the submission of proposals that wrestle with the concept of "continuity and change in the character of terrorism," as well as the subsequent requirement for potential changes in counter terrorism and preventing/countering violent extremism concepts, policies, and practices. We challenge conference presenters to engage with the concept of changes in the profiles, motivations, actors, tactics, ideologies, organisational dynamics, geographies, and strategies of terrorism; as well as the changing demands this potentially places on counter terrorism and preventing/countering violent extremism policies and practice, and research. Terrorism has never been a static phenomenon but as new technologies, changing socio-political contexts, and new and renewed grievances inform the context in which terrorism occurs, its character is potentially changing. All these changes, both to terrorism and extremism itself, and to CT and P/CVE, necessarily have implications for research, as much as they do for policy and practice.
We look forward to submissions from both emerging and established scholars. Additionally, we encourage submissions that engage with these topics from both scholarly and applied perspectives, and encourage submissions from practitioners, policy makers, as well as researchers and scholars. We strongly encourage submissions from scholars and practitioners from South East Asia.
We welcome submissions for:
- Papers;
- Posters;
- Panels;
- Roundtables;
- Book Talks.
Including but not exclusive to:
Permanent Themes
- Conceptual & Definitional Debates
- Causes, Development & Consequences of Terrorism
- (De-)Radicalization
- Psychology of Terrorism
- Ideologies of Terrorism
- Single-Issue Terrorism
- Age & Terrorism
- Gender & terrorism
- Race & Terrorism
- Religion & Terrorism
- (Pro-)State Terrorism
- Lone-Actor Terrorism
- Cyber-Terrorism
- Emerging Threats
- Crime-Terror Nexus
- Warfare & Terrorism
- Counter-Terrorism