top2/9/2012
Research Projects
Terrorist Group Formation and Recruitment
Radicalization
Includes projects on:
- Cell Groups and Individual Radicalization in Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the United States (Lead Investigator: Douglas McLeod)
- Community-level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Measurement Workshop (Lead Investigator: Shira Fishman)
- Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States (Lead Investigators: Kelly Damphousse, Joshua Freilich, Brent Smith, Steven Chermak, Shira Fishman, Gary LaFree and Kathleen Smarick)
- Homegrown Radicalization and the Role of Social Networks and Social Inclusiveness in the United States (Lead Investigator: Paul Harwood)
- Islamic Radicalization in Europe and North America: Parallels and Divergence (Lead Investigators: Gary Ackerman, Magnus Ranstorp, Peter Neumann and John Sawyer)
- Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa’s Lebanese Muslim Community (Lead Investigators: Clark McCauley, Christian Leuprecht and Bidisha Biswas)
- Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism (Lead Investigator: Donatella della Porta)
- Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups (Lead Investigator: Shawn Flanigan)
- Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom (Lead Investigator: Clark McCauley)
- Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States (Lead Investigator: Clark McCauley)
- Violent Radicalization and Terrorist Recruitment in Somali Americans (Lead Investigator: Stevan Weine)
- ** COMPLETED ** Effects of Uncertainty on Support for Religious Extremism (Lead Investigator: Arie Kruglanski)
- ** COMPLETED ** State Response and Terrorist Activity (Lead Investigator: Clark McCauley)
- ** COMPLETED ** Support for Terrorism as a Function of Individualistic and Collectivistic Goals (Lead Investigator: Arie Kruglanski)
- ** COMPLETED ** The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia (Lead Investigators: Douglas McLeod, )
Additional Projects on Terrorist Group Formation and Recruitment
Includes projects on:
- Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism? (Lead Investigators: Paul Huth and Mark Lichbach)
- Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad (Lead Investigator: Mohammed Hafez)
- Where the Extremes May Touch: Islamist Networks, Extremism, and Terrorism (Lead Investigators: Gary Ackerman and Jeffrey Bale)
- ** COMPLETED ** Content Analysis of al-Qa'ida Statements (Lead Investigator: Deborah Cai)
- ** COMPLETED ** International Survey Capabality (Lead Investigators: Stephen Weber and )
- ** COMPLETED ** Militant Islamist Networks in the West (Lead Investigator: Jeffrey Bale)
- ** COMPLETED ** Modeling and Simulation of Individual and Group Decision-making (Lead Investigators: Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal and Anthony Lemieux)
- ** COMPLETED ** Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan)
- ** COMPLETED ** Terrorism and Ethnic Political Violence (Lead Investigators: Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Victor Asal)
Terrorist Group Persistence and Dynamics
Terrorism Operations
Includes projects on:
- Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses (Lead Investigator: James Pennebaker)
- Key Dimensions in Understanding Terrorist Bomb Attacks (Lead Investigator: Margaret Wilson)
- More Bang for the Buck?: Examining the Effect of Technological Change on Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Lead Investigators: Gary Ackerman and Jeffrey Bale)
- Terrorism and Violence in Colombia (Lead Investigator: Enrique Arias)
- Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT) (Lead Investigators: Gary Ackerman and Victor Asal)
- ** COMPLETED ** Anatomizing Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries (Lead Investigator: Gary Ackerman)
- ** COMPLETED ** Empirical Analysis of IED Attacks (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree and Richard Legault)
- ** COMPLETED ** Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: A Study of South Asia (Lead Investigator: Sharad Joshi)
- ** COMPLETED ** Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan)
- ** COMPLETED ** Terrorist Groups and Weapons of Mass Destruction (Lead Investigators: Victor Asal, Gary Ackerman and R. Karl Rethemeyer)
- ** COMPLETED ** Terrorist Strategies and Tactics: When Do Terrorists Decide to Attack the US? (Lead Investigator: Martha Crenshaw)
Interventions Against Terrorism
Includes projects on:
- Assessing Success and Failure in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Development of Metrics on the Global War on Terror and the Global Jihad (Lead Investigators: Alex Schmid and Rashmi Singh)
- Countering Jihadist Ideology among Detainees: The Effects and Effectiveness of De-Radicalization Programs (Lead Investigator: Arie Kruglanski)
- Dealing with the Devil: When Bargaining with Terrorist Works (Lead Investigators: Laura Dugan and Erica Chenoweth)
- Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies (Lead Investigator: Martha Crenshaw)
- Punishing Terrorism: Examining the Multiple Stages of Federal Punishment Across Political Contexts (Lead Investigator: Brian Johnson)
- ** COMPLETED ** Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De-Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of US-Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings (Lead Investigator: John Horgan)
- ** COMPLETED ** Correctional Response to Terrorism: Organizational Change and Strategies (Lead Investigators: Bert Useem and Obie Clayton)
- ** COMPLETED ** Measuring Intervention Success in Terrorist Activities (Lead Investigator: Brent Smith)
- ** COMPLETED ** Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience (Lead Investigator: David Weisburd)
- ** COMPLETED ** Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Police (Lead Investigator: David Weisburd)
- ** COMPLETED ** The Impact of Israeli Counterterrorism Interventions on Rate and Intensity of Terrorist Activity: Hazard Modeling and Time Series Approaches (Lead Investigator: Arie Kruglanski)
Additional Projects on Terrorist Group Persistence and Dynamics
Includes projects on:
- Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations (Lead Investigator: Clark McCauley)
- The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America (Lead Investigator: Johanna Birnir)
- ** COMPLETED ** Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan and Robert Greenbaum)
- ** COMPLETED ** Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam (Lead Investigators: Clark McCauley and Emmanuel Karagiannis)
- ** COMPLETED ** Mobilization For and Against Terrorism in the Islamic World (Lead Investigators: Clark McCauley, Mohammed Hafez and Mansoor Moaddel)
- ** COMPLETED ** Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space (Lead Investigator: Susan Cutter)
- ** COMPLETED ** Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks (Lead Investigators: Victor Asal and R. Karl Rethemeyer)
- ** COMPLETED ** Understanding Desistence from Terrorism (Lead Investigator: Clark McCauley)
Societal Responses to Terrorist Threats and Attacks
Community Resilience
Includes projects on:
- An Integrated Conception of Community Resilience (Lead Investigators: Fran Norris, Betty Pfefferbaum and Kathleen Smarick)
- Building Community Resilience through Public Involvement: The Extended Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART-E) (Lead Investigator: Betty Pfefferbaum)
- Community Field Studies and Analyses of Preparedness Networks (Lead Investigator: Kathleen Tierney)
- Organizational Factors in the Successful Application of 'Community Engagement' Principles for Bioterrorism Preparedness (Lead Investigator: Monica Schoch-Spana)
- The Role for State Governments in Community Resilience (Lead Investigator: Ann Bowman)
- ** COMPLETED ** Best Practices for Preparing Communities: Citizen Engagement in Public Health Planning (Lead Investigator: Monica Schoch-Spana)
- ** COMPLETED ** Developing Community Resilience for Children and Families (Lead Investigators: Fran Norris and Betty Pfefferbaum)
- ** COMPLETED ** Preparedness for Catastrophic Events (Lead Investigators: Paul Harwood, Dennis Mileti, Monica Schoch-Spana, Kathleen Smarick and )
- ** COMPLETED ** School-Based Preparedness and Intervention Programs (Lead Investigators: Terence Thornberry and )
Additional Projects on Societal Responses to Terrorist Threats and Attacks
Includes projects on:
- Domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction: Populations at Risk from U.S. Chemical Facilities Releases (Lead Investigator: Susan Cutter)
- Muslim Community Integration: Journey into America
- Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism (Lead Investigator: Fran Norris)
- ** COMPLETED ** Campus Dialogues (Lead Investigator: Jonathan Wilkenfeld)
- ** COMPLETED ** Communicating Risk of Mass Casualty Terrorism in Diverse Communities (Lead Investigator: Elaine Vaughan)
- ** COMPLETED ** Modeling and Simulation of Public Response to Threat and Attacks (Lead Investigator: Dennis Mileti)
- ** COMPLETED ** National Household Survey (Lead Investigators: Linda Bourque and Dennis Mileti)
- ** COMPLETED ** Organizational Dimensions of Risk Communication During Homeland Security Crises (Lead Investigator: Caron Chess)
- ** COMPLETED ** Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science, and GIS (Lead Investigator: Susan Cutter)
- ** COMPLETED ** Social History of Anthrax (Lead Investigator: Susan Jones)
- ** COMPLETED ** Textual Analysis of Electronic Media Coverage of Homeland Security-Related Risks (Lead Investigator: Lisa Keranen)
Integrative Research
Cross-Cutting Projects
Includes projects on:
- Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting Against Dangerous Entrants (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree, Kathleen Smarick and Brent Smith)
- Creation and Analysis of an Integrated U.S. Security Database (IUSSD) (Lead Investigators: Brooke Liu, Steven Chermak, Laura Dugan, Joshua Freilich, Gary LaFree, Brent Smith, Kelly Damphousse and Kathleen Smarick)
- Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2009 (Lead Investigators: Joshua Freilich and Steven Chermak)
- Global Terrorism Database (GTD) (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan)
- Terrorism and Extremist Violence in U.S. Counties (TEVUS-C) (Lead Investigators: Amy Adamczyk, Victor Asal, Bianca Bersani, Steven Chermak, Kelly Damphousse, Kathleen Deloughery, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Ryan King, Clark McCauley, Fran Norris, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Brent Smith, Sophia Moskalenko, Gary LaFree, Kathleen Smarick and Joshua Freilich)
- Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations (Lead Investigators: Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Victor Asal)
- ** COMPLETED ** Creation of a Data Base of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005 (Lead Investigators: Joshua Freilich and Steven Chermak)
- ** COMPLETED ** Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups (Lead Investigators: Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan)
9/30/2011
8/20/2011
9/15/2010
