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START Center: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism; a Center of Excellence of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security based at the University of Maryland
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Announcements

11.17.09
Internships at START Available for Spring 2010
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11.6.09
GTD Data Now Downloadable
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11.2.09
Fall 2009 START Bulletin Now Available
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Research Areas
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Terrorist Group
Formation and
Recruitment
Working Group 1 (WG1) is guided by the assumption that terrorism is a tool available to many actors who believe using it will advance their objectives...
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Terrorist Group
Persistence and
Dynamics
Understanding terrorist group dynamics requires understanding terrorism as politics. The guiding perspective of Working Group 2 (WG2) emerges from four observations...
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Societal Responses
to Terrorist Threats
and Attacks
Working Group 3 (WG3) provides scientifically derived insights on preceptions of, preparations for, responses to, and recovery from terrorist attacks, focusing on the domestic U.S. setting...
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The Global Terrorism Database
Go to the Global Terrorism Database
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database presenting information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2007), including data on where, when, and how each of over 80,000 terrorist events occurred.Go to the Global Terrorism Database
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Project Spotlight

Correctional Response to Terrorism: Organizational Change and Strategies
This project involves the systematic exploration of the connections between imprisonment and terrorist recruitment through interviews of corrections officials, as well as intelligence officers working within those correctional agencies...
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Investigator Spotlight

Bert Useem
Bert Useem is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University and a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico. He has an interest in the conditions of stability in criminal justice institutions. Useem has published two books on prison disturbanc...
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