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Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
START researchers earn seed grant to investigate dyadic discourse
The project will both draw from Dugan and Chenoweth's START study, Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE), and expand it. While the GATE data currently chronicles thousands of government actions directed toward terrorists and their constituencies (6,603 in Israel and 1,856 in Turkey), verbal discourse and gestures have largely been combined with material actions for analysis.
The new funding will allow the research team to separate out the verbal discourse and gestures to allow for a more thorough analysis that can further scholarship and inform practitioners and policymakers. GATE is funded through START by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Office of University Programs.