Geneva Launch of the Global Terrorism Index 2025

Join us at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy for a panel discussion to deliberate on the key findings of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), an annual report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), as well as to exchange insights on the key trajectories of terrorism trends over the last decade.

Among the many findings identified in the report was that the Sahel remains the epicentre of global terrorism with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2009. Weak governance, ethnic tensions, and ecological degradation have created a conducive environment in which terrorism can flourish. In the West, lone wolf terrorism is on the rise with one in five of the suspects being under the age of 18.

The report also highlights how terrorist organisations are rapidly adapting to emerging technologies, transforming their operations through artificial intelligence and encrypted communications. The Russo-Ukraine is also giving terrorists multiple lessons on how to conduct terrorism more effectively today and into the future.

Join IEP's Director for Europe and MENA region  Serge Stroobants as he unpacks the key findings of the report, along with a high level panel discussion on the report's key findings and the state of terrorism in 2025.

Experts

• Mr Serge Stroobants, Director, Europe and MENA region, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
• Mr Issaka Ouedraogo, Sahel Risks and Strategy Advisor, Director Sahel Politica
• Dr Lila Schumicky-Logan, Deputy Executive Director and Head of Portfolio Management, GCERF
• Dr Christina Schori Liang, Head, Counterterrorism and PVE, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)