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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

11.6.09
GTD Data Now Downloadable
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11.2.09
Fall 2009 START Bulletin Now Available
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10.21.09
START Releases First Research Review
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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

Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism
This project explores how societal and organizational conditions and political ideologies influence the normative systems of activists and organizations that use violence, and what aspects of these normative systems are most conducive for terrorist activities...
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Investigator Spotlight

Rashmi Singh
Dr . Rashmi Singh holds a PhD from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, where she participated in various research projects while also assisting in Graduate Teaching. Since 2003 she has been Bus...
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