2024 marks twenty years since the creation of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism (ICPVTR), which started as a research programme and subsequently morphed into a specialist centre. Consistent with this milestone, the current issue has examined four broad but interrelated terrorism issues: the role of think-tanks in fostering an awareness about terrorist threats, contemporary themes for future terrorism research, challenges of data gathering as well as the evolution of the threat landscape in South and Southeast Asia. As a leading counterterrorism think-tank in t ...