However, the Counter-Terrorism Organization has offices and events all around the world in places such as Argentina, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivorie, Kenya, Kuwait, Jordan, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Indonesia, and the Philippines amongst others.

[1] The IIJ was conceived during meetings by Ministers and senior officials of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, an organisation of about 40 countries from around the globe.

[6] It aims to provide support to lawmakers, police, prosecutors, judges, and similar personnel on how to deal with challenges and terrorism within their regions and borders.

The IIJ at the time planned to play an influential role in supporting African and Middle Eastern countries that were in a period of transition.

Following the inaugural event, a number of workshops were scheduled, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) work with building legal cooperation between Libya and other North African countries to stem the funding of terrorism.

[3] In late 2014, the University of Malta and the IIJ announced that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote their aims to advance peace and security.

[8] On February 2, 2024, The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the Verdala Palace in Siġġiewi, Malta.

[3] After the launch of the IIJ, the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism suggested in a press release that the focus of the IIJ wouldn't only be focused at improving governance within regions associated with terrorism, but would also work to strengthen criminal justice systems and also build regional judicial systems to improve local policing in areas of the world that had been previously neglected.

[1] In late 2014, the IIJ hosted a United Nations-based summit to discuss the role foreign terrorist fighters play in everyday society and what laws could be introduced.

[10] The theme of IIJ's summits continued into 2015, when they held a roundtable meeting for lawmakers from North Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

The then Maltese Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela then addressed a two-day workshop in early 2017, discussing how terrorist groups such as ISIS needed to be stopped from spreading their propaganda on social media.