Investigating and analyzing the place of criminalization of maritime terrorism in international conventions and the strategies of governments in facing and suppressing maritime terrorism.

Criminalization of terrorist activities is one of the basic and important measures to prevent and fight against this phenomenon. The development of dimensions and scope of terrorist acts and the loss of life and money caused by terrorism has caused many countries to approve special laws and regulations to punish its perpetrators. In this way, the contribution of international treaties in the said development should not be neglected. In fact, treaties and in other words contractual rights are one of the ways of criminalizing some actions in the international arena that are not criminalized according to customary law. In this thesis, the researcher tries to investigate and analyze the criminalization of maritime terrorism in international conventions and the strategies of governments in facing and suppressing maritime terrorism.

The research method is analytical-descriptive.

If the origin of maritime terrorism and the basis of organization, equipping, financing and even training is related to governments and government groups, due to the benefit of complex facilities, on the one hand, it will increase the sphere of influence and the impact factor. increases, which makes the fight difficult.