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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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2.5.10
Winter 2010 START Bulletin Now Available
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1.27.10
*New!* START Scholarship Opportunity for Maryland Undergraduates
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1.21.10
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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

Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT)
(1) Comparative case studies of groups that have engaged in MCT, focused on the decision processes involved in the selection of a mass casualty attack from the wide range of attack options open to terrorists, and (2) systematic collection of country-level, organizational-level and individual-level data on MCT events...
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Investigator Spotlight

Donatella della Porta
Professor of sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. She is on leave of absence from the University of Florence, where she was full professor of Political Science, president of the corso di l...
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