We invite submissions for papers from postgraduate students on all

areas of terrorism and political violence research. Submissions

should include a paper title and abstract (max. 200 words), full

name(s) and current institutional affiliation and/or current position by

14th March 2025.

Click here to submit your abstract

Papers are invited for themes including but not exclusive to:

• Conceptual and Defintional Debates
  
• Causes, Development and Consequences of Terrorism
  
• Ideologies of Terrorism
  
• Lone Actor Terrorism
• Psychology of Terrorism
  
• (Pro-) State Terrorism
• Single-Issue Terrorism
  
• Emerging Threats
• Children and Terrorism
• Warfare and Terrorism
• Religion and Terrorism
  
• Gender and Terrorism
• Crime-Terror Nexus
• Rsponses to Terrorism
  

If you wish to organise a conference panel, please email the
conference organisers regarding the theme and panellists’ names.
All panellists should submit individual abstracts before the deadline.

You do not need to present a paper to attend the conference and we welcome nonpresenting postgraduates and interested practitioners but you will need to pay the conference fee.

The cost of the conference will be $70 (approx. £55), which will give postgraduates one year’s membership in the Society for Terrorism Research for 2025.

If you pay the conference fee and then cannot come to the conference, we will refund the fee minus $35 to cover the cost of subsidised STR membership for 2025. STR will not be able to refund after May 30th 2025.

Paper and Panel Proposals: Friday 14 March 2025

Notification of Acceptance: Friday 21 March 2025

Conference Payment Deadline: Friday 2 May 2025

All queries should be directed to Sarah Marsden (sm992@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Tina Billington-Hughes (Tina.Billington-Hughes@northampton.ac.uk)

Details of how to get to St Andrews can be found here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/v...

There are a number of accommodation options in St Andrews which are close to the conference venue. There will be a number of rooms available in the University's David Russell Hall apartments, which is a 25 minute walk from the conference venue. Details of how to book will be made to delegates once they have registered.

Joel Busher is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Peace

and Security, Coventry University. His research examines the dynamics of

political violence, mobilization against minority groups, and the

implementation and impacts of security policies. His work is published

in several leading journals in these areas, and he is the author of four

books, including the Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation

and Countering Radicalisation. He frequently presents to and advises

senior policymakers in the UK and internationally.