Bart Schuurman is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and head of the research group ‘Terrorism and Political Violence’. His research focuses on understanding contemporary forms of terrorism, extremism and radicalization. In particular, he has studied why most extremists will not engage in terrorist violence.

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Bart Schuurman is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and head of the research group ‘Terrorism and Political Violence’. His research focuses on understanding contemporary forms of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation. In particular, he has studied why most extremists will not engage in terrorist violence. What sets these radicalized individuals apart from those who do commit terrorist attacks? Alongside this work, he has studied how the field of terrorism research has developed, what motivates people to become involved in ‘homegrown’ jihadism, whether re-integration programs for former terrorists and extremist work, and why powerful states so often face defeat when fighting asymmetric or ‘small’ wars.
Currently, he is engaged in a multi-year project on close protection and security in the Netherlands, known as the system of ‘Bewaken en Beveiligen’. Bart’s work has been supported by numerous grants, including those from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Canadian ‘Community Resilience Fund’, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, and the Fulbright Commission. He obtained his PhD in 2017 at Leiden University and completed an MA in ‘International Relations in Historical Perspective’ from Utrecht University in 2009.

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