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Title Investigators Project Period
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
Al-Qa'ida Transcript Coding Project Deborah Cai -
An Integrated Conception of Community Resilience Betty Pfefferbaum, Fran Norris, Kathleen Sherrieb -
Anatomizing Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale, R. Karl Rethemeyer -
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs William Braniff -
Assessing Success and Failure in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Development of Metrics on the Global War on Terror and the Global Jihad Rashmi Singh -
Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC) Amy Pate, Robert D. Lamb, Elizabeth Radziszewski, Egle Murauskaite, Sean Doody, Devin Ellis, Joseph Kelly, Michael Jensen
Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses James Pennebaker -
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree -
Cargo Aviation Insider Threat Assessment Tool (CAITAT) Thomas Guarrieri -
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Comparing Failed, Foiled, Completed and Successful Terrorist Attacks Erik Dahl, Margaret Wilson, Martha Crenshaw -
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media Gary LaFree -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Death in a Small Package: A Social History of Anthrax Susan Jones -
Decision Making and Simulation Anthony Lemieux, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal -
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+ Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Deradicalization of Extremists Arie Kruglanski, Michele Gelfand -
Dissuading Adversaries and their Radiological/Nuclear Pathways: Integrating Deterrence Theory and Analytics in the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) Amy Pate, Brandon Behlendorf, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D., Hamid Mohtadi, Marcus A. Boyd -
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies Martha Crenshaw -
Empirical Analysis of IED Attacks Gary LaFree, Richard Legault -
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database Marcus A. Boyd -
Failure Points in Smuggling Networks Brandon Behlendorf -
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance Marcus A. Boyd -
Geospatial and Temporal Patterns of US Terrorism Brent Smith, Kelly Damphousse -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats Elizabeth Radziszewski, Sean Doody, Salma Bouziani, Amy Pate, Madeline Romm
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism? Mark Lichbach -
Ideologies and Motivations of Terrorist Organizations Assaf Moghadam, Gary Ackerman -
Influencing Violent Extremist Organizations: Empirical Assessment Project Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer -
Insider Threat for Inbound International Air Cargo Gary Ackerman -
Integrated Discovery of Emerging and Novel Technologies (IDENT) Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Integration of International Architecture Analysis Brandon Behlendorf, Emily Iarocci, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer -
Investigating Emerging and Near-Future Urban Security Challenges Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin
Key Dimensions in Understanding Terrorist Bomb Attacks Margaret Wilson -
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand -
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat Gary LaFree, William Braniff, Katherine Worboys Izsak -
Measuring Up: Aligning SOF and Interagency CT Efforts Across the Tactical, Operational and Strategic Levels Barnett S. Koven -
Minorities at Risk Related Projects -
Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Modeling Terrorism Onset and Intensity Dynamics Using the GTD Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Nina Fefferman -
Modeling the Emergence of Leaders in Self-Organizing Social Networks Nina Fefferman -
More Bang for the Buck?: Examining the Effect of Technological Change on Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale -
New Analytical Methods for the Exploitation of Open-Source Structured Databases to Enhance Situational Awareness for Effective Counter-WMD Strategies Ronald Breiger, Gary Ackerman, Victor Asal, H. Brinton Milward, R. Karl Rethemeyer -
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization Johanna Birnir, Nil Satana -
Organizational Determinants of Violence and Performance Gina Scott Ligon -
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism Gary LaFree -
Profiles of Incidents Involving CBRN and Non-state Actors (POICN) Database Markus Binder -
Profiling the CB Adversary: Motivation, Psychology and Decision Gary Ackerman -
Radiological/Nuclear Adversaries Future Project Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer -
Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations Clark McCauley -
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence -
Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space Susan Cutter
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization Barnett S. Koven, Ramon F. Brena -
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks Alan Neustadtl, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller -
START-Oxford University Press Book Series Laura Dugan, Anthony Lemieux, Gary Ackerman, Gary LaFree -
State Response and Terrorist Activity Clark McCauley -
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer -
Terrorist Attacks on the Homeland Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller -
Terrorist Groups and Weapons of Mass Destruction Gary Ackerman, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal, Gary LaFree -
Training in Risk and Crisis Communication (TRACC) Brooke Liu, Elizabet Petrun Sayers, Katherine Worboys Izsak -
Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT) Gary Ackerman, Victor Asal -
Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling H. Brinton Milward, Ronald Breiger -
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset Victor Asal -
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset Gina Scott Ligon -
Using Experimental Research to Study the Dynamics of Radicalization, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism Anthony Lemieux -
Validating Models of Adversary Behavior Jun Zhuang -
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven -
Wargaming, Social Complexity, and Asymmetric Threats Robert D. Lamb, Amy Pate, Devin Ellis, Joseph Kelly -
Where the Extremes May Touch: The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamist, Right- and Left-Wing Extremists Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
'Designing Danger': Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors: Introduction to the Special Issue 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
'Keep Wicked Calm and Carry the Hell On': Boston, Terrorism and the Rhetorical Power of Resilience 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
"Oxygen of Publicity" and "Lifeblood of Liberty" Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-first Century 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
2011 Research review 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Research Review
45 Years of Terrorism: Terrorist Attacks 1970-2015, Concentration and Intensity 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Map
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism 2022-05-20T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Comparison of Political Violence by Left-wing, Right-wing and Islamist Extremists in the United States and the World 2022-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A First Look at Domestic and International Global Terrorism Events, 1970-1997 2006-05-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Meta-analysis of Intervention Effects on Depression and/or Anxiety in Youth Exposed to Political Violence or Natural Disasters 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Practical Taxonomy for Online Terrorist Content 2021-07-01T12:00:00 Report
A Preliminary Typology Mapping Pathways of Learning and Innovation by Modern Jihadist Groups 2016-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Quantitative Overview of Biological Weapons: Identification, Characterization, and Attribution 2008-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
A semi-stochastic algorithm approach to generating CBRNE terrorist attack plot scenarios 2023-07-24T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Skill Set for Supporting Displaced Children in Psychological Recovery After Disasters 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
A Study of Crisis 2000-01-01T12:00:00 Book
A Supply-Side View of Suicide Terrorism: A Cross-National Study 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Al-Qaida and its Associated Movement vs. the Islamic State and its Associated Movement 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Presentation
A Three-Stage Evacuation Decision-Making and Behavior Model for the Onset of an Attack 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Across the Divide: Reflections of a Collaborative Class on Terrorism 2010-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Al Qaeda's Post-9/11 Evolution: An Assessment 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Al-Qa'ida - Related Terrorism: Violent Incidents and Foiled Plots 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Al-Qaeda's Propaganda Decoded: A Psycholinguistic System for Detecting Variations in Terrorism Ideology 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Alliance Hubs: Focal Points in the International Terrorist Landscape 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Agenda for Addressing Bias in Conflict Data 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Army of One: Assessing CBRN Pursuit and Use by Lone Wolves and Autonomous Cells 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Evaluation of Displacement and Diffusion Effects on Eco-Terrorist Activities After Police Interventions 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Analyzing Political and Social Regional Stability with Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities 2010-01-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Anatomizing Chemical and Biological Non-State Adversaries 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports on Terrorism 2016 2017-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Anthrax in Transit: Practical Experience and Intellectual Exchange 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Apparent Intended Lethality: Toward a Behavioral Model of Intention to Harm in Single Issue Bombing Campaigns 2010-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Assessing Community Reilience: A CART Survery Application in an Impoverished Urban Community 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Assessing Terrorist Risks: Developing an Algorithm-Based Model for Law Enforcement 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De‐Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of U.S.‐Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings 2009-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Assessing the Effectiveness of Programs To Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism 2024-02-12T12:00:00 Journal Article
Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime-Type on Terrorist Attacks 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Back to the Future: Teaching about the End of the World 2019-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Balancing Pre-disaster Preparedness and Post-disaster Relief 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Be Careful What You Ask For: 10 Years at START 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Belonging Nowhere: Marginalization & Radicalization Risk among Muslim Immigrants 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Beyond al-Qa'ida 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Beyond Image Repair: Suggestions for Crisis Communication Theory Development 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Beyond Violent Extremism: A 3N Perspective of Inceldom 2023-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Big, Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) Fact Sheet 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Black Swans and Burstiness -- Countering Myths about Terrorism 2012-12-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Blue or Stormy Skies? The Roles of Strategic Risk Communication in Protecting Communities Before, During, and After Severe Weather 2022-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Book Review: Lutz, J. M., & Lutz, B. J. (2005). Terrorism: Origins and Evolution. 2007-06-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Broadening the Discussion about Women and Violent Extremism 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Building a Global Terrorism Database 2006-04-01T12:00:00 Report
Building Terrorism from Social Ties: The Dark Side of Social Capital 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
CBRN Activity and Attacks by Insurgent Organizations 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
CBRN Terrorism 2023-02-22T12:00:00 Journal Article
Centering culture in risk and crisis communication: Current directions and a path forward 2025-10-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Characteristics of Terrorism Hotspots 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Charity as Resistance: Connections Between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror 2006-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Climate Change and Security 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change, Fish Production, and Maritime Piracy 2023-04-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Clustering Heterogeneous Semi-structured Social Science Datasets for Security Applications 2018-07-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Commitment and Extremism: A Goal Systemic Analysis 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Communicating Crisis Uncertainty: A Review of the Knowledge Gaps 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Community Resilience 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Community-Focused Counter-Radicalization and Counter-Terrorism Projects 2018-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Comparative Analysis of VNSA Complex Engineering Efforts 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism 2023-08-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing Violent Extremism and Terrorism to Other Forms of Targeted Violence 2024-03-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Computing in Compromised Environments: Beyond the Castle Model of Cyber-Security 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Conceptualizing and Measuring Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Congress Report: Experts' Recommendations on Enacting Best Practices in Risk and Crisis Communication 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Connections Can Be Toxic: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit of CBRN Weapons 2012-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Constructing Terrorism: From Fear and Coercion to Anger and Jujitsu Politics 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Report
Containing the Narrative: Strategy and Tactics in Countering the Storyline of Global Jihad 2010-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Coping with Uncertainty in Adversarial Risk Analysis 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Counter-Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learnt 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Countering Myths about Terrorism: Some Lessons Learned from the Global Terrorism Database 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Countering Nuclear and Radiological Materials Illicit Trafficking Through Maritime Security Initiatives: Paper Tiger or Concrete Solution? A Case Study 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Countering Violent Extremism Online and Offline 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Country Reports on Terrorism 2013: Annex of Statistical Information 2014-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Creating a Data Archive to Facilitate Research on Understanding and Responding to Terrorism 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Crime Pays: Terrorist Group Engagement in Crime and Survival 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Criminology, Terrorism, and Serendipity 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Cross-Milieu Terrorist Collaboration: Using Game Theory to Assess the Risk of a Novel Threat 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cross-National Patterns of Terrorism: Comparing Trajectories for Total, Attributed and Fatal Attacks, 1970-2006 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cues to Catching Deception in Interviews: A Brief Overview 2012-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Current Evidence for Selecting Disaster Interventions for Children and Adolescents 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Sophistication Assessment Methodology for Public-Facing Terrorist Web Sites 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Data-Driven System Identification of the Social Network Dynamics in Online Postings of an Extremist Group 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Deadlier in the U.S.? On Lone Wolves, Terrorist Groups, and Attack Lethality 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad. By Richard A. Nielsen. 2018-11-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax 2010-10-01T12:00:00 Book
Debates among Salafi Muslims about use of violence 2017-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Decisions in disaster recovery operations 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Defining Knowledge Gaps Within CBRN Terrorism Research 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism 2009-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democracy, Inclusion and Failure in Counterinsurgency 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Destruction Through Collaboration: How Terrorists Work Together Toward Malevolent Innovation 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Detainee Deradicalization 2010-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Determining Extremist Organizations' Likelihood of Conducting Cyber Attacks 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Deterrence and Risk Preferences in Sequential Attacker–Defender Games with Continuous Efforts 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Deterring and Preventing Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Developing An Empirical Understanding of Improvised Explosive Devices: A Social and Behavioral Science Perspective 2009-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Developing Consensus on Strengthening Article X(1) of the NPT 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Development and Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms and Models of Relevance to START Databases 2016-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Digital Crisis Communication Theory: Current Landscape and Future Trajectories 2023-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Digital Participation Roles of the Global Jihad: Social Media’s Role in Bringing Together Vulnerable Individuals and VEO Content 2018-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don't Kill 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Disaster as a Social Problem and Social Construct 2018-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Disaster Warnings in Your Pocket: How Audiences Interpret Mobile Alerts for an Unfamiliar Hazard 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Disasters: A Sociological Approach 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Discrimination, Genocide, and Politicide 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Discussion Point: Insider Threat in the Aviation Industry 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Disrupting Terrorist Assassinations Through Situational Crime Prevention 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Paths to Martyrdom and Significance Among Suicide Attackers 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do 90 Percent of Terrorist Groups Last Less Than a Year? Updating the Conventional Wisdom 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns? 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us from Terrorism? 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Targeted Killings Increase or Decrease Terrorism? Evaluating the Evidence and Other Considerations 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates 2022-11-08T12:00:00 Journal Article
Does Violent Secessionism Work? 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Don't Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Driving-Forces Model on Individual Behavior in Scenarios Considering Moving Threat Agents 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Dynamic Forecasting Conditional Probability of Bombing Attacks Based on Time-Series and Intervention Analysis 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Encouraging and Assessing the Validity of Answers to Questions about Radicalization: The Use of Meta-opinions 2018-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Enhancing urban resilience: Global expert insights on climate security, mitigation, and adaptive strategies 2024-12-03T12:00:00 Journal Article
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Escalation Management in International Crises: The United States and its Adversaries 2023-02-16T12:00:00 Book
Escalation Management in the Gray Zone 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Ethical Conduct of Research in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Ethnic Groups, Political Exclusion and Domestic Terrorism 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Evolution of Global Terrorism: The Growing Lethality of Attacks 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Explaining Suicide Terrorism: A Review Essay 2007-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Exploring the Subculture of Ideologically Motivated Cyber-Attackers 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
External Interventions: Bluffing and Adaptive Learning in Civil Wars 2024-10-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extremes of asymmetric conflict: terrorism and genocide 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Extremism and the Extreme Personality 2023-04-20T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Fact Sheet: Global Terrorism in 2018 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Fear and Anger Elicited by Terrorist Attack: The Power of Jujitsu Politics 2016-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Finding Bin Laden: Lessons for a New American Way of Intelligence 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Forecasting the Use of Violence by Ethno–Political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence, V. S. Subrahmanian, ed. 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Foreign Aid as a Signal to Investors: Predicting FDI in Post-Conflict Countries 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Foreign Military Interventions and Suicide Attacks 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Foundational Datasets: Global Chemical, Biological, Radiological, & Nuclear Data Suite & Portal 2025-01-02T12:00:00 START Reports
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Book
From Factors to Actors: Enhancing the Reliability of CBRN Analysis 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
From WWI to ISIS, Using Shame and Masculinity in Recruitment Narratives 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Games Rivals Play: International Terrorism in Rivalries 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Gauging the Threat 2013-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance 2017-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Global Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Data Suite 2025-04-04T12:00:00 Research Brief
Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Global Terrorism and the Deadliest Groups since 2001 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Global Terrorism Database: Real-time Data Collection Pilot Evaluation 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Global Terrorism in 2017 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Global Terrorism in 2018 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Global Terrorism Overview: Terrorism in 2019 2020-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Global Trends in Terrorism, 1970- 2011 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE): A Methodology that Reveals how Governments Behave toward Terrorists and their Constituencies 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Government Policies for Counteracting Violent Extremism 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 2023-01-23T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 — The Military Lever of Power 2024-03-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—Legal Approaches 2023-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power 2023-07-25T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterterrorism from 2010 to 2023 2024-12-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Information Operations from 2002 to 2022 2024-12-20T12:00:00 START Reports
Guest Editorial: Processes of Radicalization and De-Radicalization 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Guiding Principles for Countering and Displacing Extremist Narratives 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Harnessing GRAT for Irregular Warfare in Great Power Competition 2024-05-14T12:00:00 Journal Article
Has Globalization Reduced Worldwide Terrorist Attacks? 2025-08-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Have Motivations for Terrorism Changed? 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Headhunting Among Extremist Organizations: An Empirical Assessment of Talent Spotting 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2012, Concentation and Intensity 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2013, Concentation and Intensity 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2014, Concentation and Intensity 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2015, Concentation and Intensity 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2016, Concentation and Intensity 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2017, Concentation and Intensity 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Map
Hezbollah's Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organised Crime 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Historical Perspective and Future Directions in Research on Psychiatric Consequences of Terrorism and Other Disasters 2006-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? 2004-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
How Many Suicide Terrorists are Suicidal? 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Human and Social Forces in the Spread of the IED Threat: Innovation, Diffusion and Adaptation 2009-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Identifying Cross-National Global Terrorist Hot Spots 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Identity and Framing Theory, Precursor Activity, and the Radicalization Process 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Report
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers: Assessing the Effect of Sanction Threats on System Trespassers’ Online Behaviors 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Implications of Research on Traumatic Stress for Countering Violent Extremism 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
In the Eye of the Storm: An Update: Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats during Covid-19 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Report
Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism? 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Information, Trust, and Power: The Impact of Conflict Histories, Policy Regimes, and Political Institutions on Terrorism 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Innovative Algorithm and Database Development Relevant to Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Efforts at START 2014-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Insider Threat for Inbound International Air Cargo 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Insurgency BAAD: Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Integrating Conflict Event Data 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Intelligence-Led Policing As a Framework for Responding to Terrorism 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Internally Displaced Populations and Suicide Terrorism 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Interpreting the Interpersonal: Crisis Communication Insights for Pandemics 2023-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Global Terrorism Database 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very High Recall and Precision Event Extraction from Narratives about International Crises 2022-07-26T12:00:00 Report
Introducing the Leadership for the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset 2025-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introductions to Adversary Behavior: Validating the Models 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Is all Jihad Local? Transnational Contention and Political Violence in Somalia 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter? 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Just Between Friends: Bilateral Cooperation and Bounded Sovereignty in the "Global War on Terror" 2009-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Killing the Messenger: Regime Type as a Determinant of Journalist Killing, 1992-2008 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
L.E.A.D.I.R. Key Findings 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Leadership protection in drug-trafficking networks 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lethal Brands: How VEOs Build Reputations 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Linguistic Models of Negative Language Attitude 2024-11-05T12:00:00 Journal Article
Linkages between Vulnerability and Resilience 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Motivates Them? 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lone-Offender Terrorists 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lying About Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Making Ends Meet: Combining Organizational Data in Contentious Politics 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Making the Nation Safer Through Social Science 2023-09-21T12:00:00 Report
Mapping Today's Jihadi Landscape and Threat 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mass Casualty Explosives Attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Mass-Fatality, Coordinated Attacks Worldwide, and Terrorism in France 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Masters of Both: Balancing the Extremes of Innovation Through Tight–Loose Ambidexterity 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Measurement Issues in the Study of Terrorism: Introducing the Special Issue 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Measuring al-Qaeda: The Metrics of Terror 2012-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience 2010-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention? 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mediating International Crises 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Mediating International Crises: Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives 2003-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Methods for Disaster Mental Health Research 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Micro and Macro-Level Risk Factors for Extremism and Terrorism: Toward a Criminology of Extremist Violence 2021-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Micro, Meso, Macro: Generic Structures of Social Complexity for Defense Systems Engineering & National Security Wargames 2025-10-12T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Migration, Crime, and Victimization 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Military Experience, Identity Discrepancies, and Far Right Terrorism: An Exploratory Analysis 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Milling and Public Warnings 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Modeling and Validating Public–Private Partnerships in Disaster Management 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Modeling Costly Learning and Counter-Learning in a Defender-Attacker Game with Private Defender Information 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Modeling Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Management via Centralized and Decentralized Models 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Morality, Efficacy, and Targeted Assassination as a Policy Tool 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Motivations, Mechanisms and Determinants of Terrorist Technology Transfer 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Myth and Reality in International Politics: Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Narratives and counter-narratives for global jihad: Opinion versus action 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Navigating Social Complexity with the Tools We Have 2025-10-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorist Actors 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Non-State Actors, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Report
Oil and Terrorism: An Investigation of Mediators 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers 2007-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
On the Value of Exposure and Secrecy of Defense System: First-Move Advantage vs. Robustness 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
One Cheer for Classical Realism, or Toward a Power Politics of Religion 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Opening Yourself Up: The Role of External and Internal Transparency in Terrorism Attacks 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Our Hazardous Environment: Four Decades of Progress or Retrenchment? 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Overview: Terrorism in 2014 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Overview: Terrorism in 2016 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Patterns of Collective Desistance from Terrorism: Fundamental Measurement Challenges 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Patterns of Islamic State-Related Terrorism, 2002--2015 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Patterns of Onset and Decline Among Terrorist Organizations 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Patterns of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2013 2014-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Paying It Forward: Sustaining the Transatlantic Relationship with Canada’s Mission in the Baltics 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Report
Peace and Conflict 2008 2007-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Peace and Conflict 2010 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Peace and Conflict 2014 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments 2005-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Physiologic Reactivity Despite Emotional Resilience Several Years After Direct Exposure to Terrorism 2007-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Pick Your POICN: Introducing the Profiles of Incidents involving CBRN and Non-State Actors (POICN) Database 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Policing Terrorism 2012-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Action as a Function of Grievances, Risk, and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Explanations 2005-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle 2007-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Mobilization and Institutions 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Politically motivated violent extremism 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Potential for radicalization amongst Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: Risks, factors, and implications 2018-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Poverty, Minority Economic Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism 2011-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Powers and Problems of Integrating Social Media Data with Public Health and Safety 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Practice Parameter on Disaster Preparedness 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15 Countries 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Report
Private Militaries and the Security Industry in Civil Wars: Competition and Market Accountability 2020-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Private Military & Security Companies, Conflict Complexity, and Peace Duration: An Empirical Analysis 2020-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Private Military and Security Companies and Human Rights Abuses: The Impact of CEOs’ Military Background 2023-02-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Private Military Companies: Lessons from Wagner 2023-10-12T12:00:00 Journal Article
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters: Infographics 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Profiling the CB Adversary: Motivation, Psychology and Decision 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Profiling the WMD Terrorism Threat 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Prosecuting Terror in the Homeland: An Empirical Assessment of Sentencing Disparities in United States Federal Terrorism Cases 2024-03-31T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protecting the Homeland from International and Domestic Terrorism Threats: Current Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Root Causes, the Role of Ideology, and Programs for Counter-radicalization and Disengagement 2010-01-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Psychology Not Theology: Overcoming ISIS' Secret Appeal 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
Public Security in Federal Polities 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Public-Private Partnerships to Counter Violent Extremism: Field Principles for Action 2016-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database (Contemporary Terrorism Studies) 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Putting the “ O ” in VEOs: What makes an organization? 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Quantifying and Qualifying Charisma: A Theoretical Framework for Measuring the Presence of Charismatic Authority in Terrorist Groups 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Quantitative approaches to the study of terrorism- Editor's Introduction 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radical Right Cross-National Links and International Cooperation 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Radicalization: A Relational Perspective 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Slight 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Re-Thinking Climate Security 2023-04-11T12:00:00 Research Brief
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Ethnic Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of American Muslims-Final Report 2010-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin-Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Recent U.S. Thinking about Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Babysteps towards a Dynamic View of Asymmetric Conflict 2010-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Recruitment and Selection in Violent Extremist Organizations: Exploring What Industrial and Organizational Psychology Might Contribute 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Reducing the Gap in Perceptions of Legitimacy of Victims and Non-victims: The Importance of Police Performance 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Regime Age and Terrorism: Are New Democracies Prone to Terrorism? 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Regime Types and Terrorism 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions 2002-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Reporting Practices of Journal Articles that Include Interviews with Extremists 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Repression and Terrorism: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis of Types of Repression and Domestic Terrorism 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Research Review 2009 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Research Review
Researching Terrorist Networks 2006-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Resilience to What? Resilience for Whom? 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Responding to Gray Zone Conflict: Countering Russia in the Donbas and Beyond 2021-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Responding to Terrorism? Human Rights Organization Shaming and Terrorist Attacks 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rethinking Alternative Development 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Risk in Extreme Environments: Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach 2009-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Risk-Mitigating Policies and Adversarial Behavior: Case of Backlash 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Root causes of radicalization: the terror-contagion hypothesis 2023-10-16T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages 2006-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Russian Clients and Global Foreign Policy Strategy: Evidence from Foreign Military Sales 2015-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Say Terrorist, Think Insurgent: Labeling and Analyzing Contemporary Terrorist Actors 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Scanning the Consequences of Demographic Change for the Emerging Landscape 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Search Engines: Terrorism's Killer App 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Searching for the Nuclear Silk Road: Geospatial Analysis of Potential Illicit Radiological and Nuclear Material Trafficking Pathways 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Secure in their Beliefs: Personal Security, the Quest for Personal Significance, and the Psychology of Extremism 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Seeing is believing: communication modality, anger, and support for action on behalf of out-groups 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Should START Researchers Embrace the Brain? 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Significance Quest Theory as the Driver of Radicalization towards Terrorism 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Simultaneous Attacks by Terrorist Organisations 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Situational Crime Prevention and Terrorism: An Assessment of 10 Years of Research 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Terrorism: Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective 2006-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Research 2023-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Socially Relevant Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Structure, and AMAR 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Spatial Distribution of Minority Communities and Terrorism 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Speaking Truth to Sources: Introducing a Method for the Quantitative Evaluation of Open Sources in Event Data 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
State Capacity and Terrorism: A Two-Dimensional Approach 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Strengths and Weaknesses of Open Source Data for Studying Terrorism and Political Radicalization 2024-06-05T12:00:00 Journal Article
Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don’t Know 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Sub-state Actors' Threats to International Security: Religious Extremists and Terrorist Groups 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Suicide Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Survival of the Fittest: Why Terrorist Groups Endure 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Swedish Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: An Analysis of Open-Source Intelligence and Statistical Data 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Report
Taking Effective Risk and Crisis Communication for Granted? 2013-08-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Targeting Strategies in Single-Issue Bomb Attacks 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Taxonomy Expansion and the Global Terrorism Database: Effectively Leveraging Academic Data Collection Initiatives 2021-07-01T12:00:00 Report
Terror's Epistemic Consequences: Existential Threat and the Quest for Certainty and Closure 2004-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism and Democracy 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and Global Security 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism and the Internet 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and the Olympics 2012-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Between "Syndrome" and "Tool" 2006-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism in the News: The Efficiency and Impact of Sampling Methods on Data Collection and Content Analysis 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Research: The Record 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Studies: A Reader 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Terrorism Trends with a Focus on Energy and Mining 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorism—A (self) love story: Redirecting the significance quest can end violence 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism, Radicalization and De-radicalization 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Terrorist Attacks Involving Package Bombs, 1970 — 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Terrorist Disengagement and De-radicalisation 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Group Rivalries and Alliances: Testing Competing Explanations 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Group Survival as a Measure of Effectiveness 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Hostage-taking 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Call of the Wild: How Extremism Happens 2021-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Challenges of Terrorism in a Globalized World 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Cost of Living and Terror: Does Consumer Price Volatility Fuel Terrorism? 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Curious Incident of the Bench in the Daylight 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Debate over "New" vs. "Old" Terrorism 2007-08-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
The Dog that Doesn't Bark 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
The Domestic Politics of International Religious Defamation 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Global Terrorism Database, 1970–2010 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Global Terrorism Database: Experiments in Machine-Assisted Data Collection 2024-12-30T12:00:00 START Reports
The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Book
The Growing Importance of Criminology in the Study of Terrorism 2007-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Book
The Illicit Drug Trade, Counternarcotics Strategies and Terrorism 2011-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Interplay between Terrorism, Nonstate Actors, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Exploration of the Pinkerton Database 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Lessons of 20 Years of Counterinsurgency Research 2023-03-23T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Making of Violent Extremists 2018-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Book
The Medium is Terrorism: Transformation of the About to Die Trope in Dabiq 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks 2008-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The nexus between terrorism and product counterfeiting in the United States 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Organization and Leadership of Violence 2013-08-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Book
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book
The Political Effectiveness of Non-State Violence: A Two-Level Framework to Transform a Deceptive Debate 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Politics of Collective Action: Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism 2009-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Politics of Suicide Terrorism 2005-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
The Politics of Terror 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamists and Western Left-Wing Extremists: A theoretical and Empirical Introduction 2012-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The psychological structure of aggression across cultures 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Book
The psychology of lone-wolf terrorism 2011-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism 2014-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Terrorism 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Psychology of Terrorism: "Syndrome" Versus "Tool" Perspectives 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Psychology of the War on Terror 2008-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Radicalization Puzzle: A Theoretical Synthesis of Empirical Approaches to Homegrown Extremism 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Reason We Don't Know 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Role of Anger in the Radicalization of Terrorists 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Role of Risk Preferences in a Multi-Target Defender-Attacker Resource Allocation Game 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Social Psychological Makings of a Terrorist 2018-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Social-Meditated Crisis Communication (SMCC) Model: Identifying the Next Frontier 2020-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The State of Al-Qaeda its Affiliates, and Associated Groups: Views from Outside Experts 2014-02-01T12:00:00 Congressional Testimony
The Strategic Logic of Terrorism 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Study of Terrorist Leadership: Where Do We Go From Here? 2017-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Talking Cure? Communication and Psychological Impact in Prison De-radicalisation Programmes 2014-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The True Meaning of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Utility of Narratives for Promoting Radicalization: The Case of the Animal Liberation Front 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Theory of an Emerging-State Actor: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Case † 2018-05-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
To Protect and to Serve: Policing in the Years of Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
To the Fringe and Back: Violent Extremism and the Psychology of Deviance 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
TOC as a Growing Threat to Regional, Global Security 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Criminology of Terrorism 2023-06-16T12:00:00 Book
Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual from Radical Opinion to Radical Action 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Psychology of Humiliation in Asymmetric Conflict 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Towards a Guide for Constructing and Disseminating Counter-Narratives to Reduce Support for Terrorism 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Towards Global Jihadism: Al-Qaeda's Strategic, Ideological and Structural Adaptations since 9/11 2012-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Tracking Global Terrorism, 1970-2004 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Training Host Nation Forces for Population-centric Counterinsurgency 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transcending Organization: Individuals and “The Islamic State” 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool: Project Fact Sheet 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Transnational Islamist Networks: Western Fighters in Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Terror and Human Rights 2009-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Terrorism 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Book
Treatment Approaches for Terrorists and Extremists 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Trends and Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks Against Nightclub Venues Over 5 Decades 2024-01-30T12:00:00 Journal Article
Trends in Global Terrorism, 1970-2007 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Two Possible Profiles of Lone-actor Terrorists 2013-09-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Tyrants and Terrorism: Why Some Autocrats are Terrorized While Others are Not 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) Research Division 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Under What Conditions Does Ethnic Conflict Result in Armed Violence? 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Understanding Political Radicalization: The Two-Pyramids Model 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Understanding Risk Communication Best Practices: A Guide for Emergency Managers and Communicators 2012-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Terrorism 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning: Al-Qaeda and Beyond 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Understanding the Threat: What Data Tell Us about U.S. Foreign Fighters 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Universal Preventive Interventions for Children in the Context of Disasters and Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Unpacking nonviolent campaigns : Introducing the NAVCO 2.0 dataset 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
VEO Level Decision Making 2015-05-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Veto Players and Terror 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
War and Political Rights in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 2021-04-13T12:00:00 Book Chapter
War Versus Criminal Justice in Response to Terrorism: The Losing Logic of Torture 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
War Versus Justice in Response to Terrorist Attacks 2006-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Web of Links: Rival Connections and Strategic Accommodation in Response to Threats 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Are the Social, Economic, Psychological and Environmental Risk Factors That Lead to Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism? 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Report
What Do The Dead Say? The Architecture of Salvific Discourses in Post-Genocide Rwanda 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What is a terrorist group? Conceptual issues and empirical implications 2014-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What is the State of Islamic Extremism: Key Trends, Challenges and Implications for U.S. Policy 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Congressional Testimony
When Terrorism Works: Explaining Success and Failure Across Varying Targets and Objectives 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations' Involvement in Drug Smuggling 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When terrorists target schools: An exploratory analysis of attacks on educational institutions 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When the Levee Breaks: A Global Trend of Cyber-Physical and Cyber-Operational Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure and Future Implications on the Great Power Competition 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Who Tortures the Terrorists? Transnational Terrorism and Military Torture 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why ISIS' Message Resonates: Leveraging Islam, Socio-Political Catalysts and Adaptive Messaging 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder 2006-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Why the United States is Targeted by Terrorism 2010-10-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
With Friends Like These…Why Terrorist Organizations Ally 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
WMD Terrorism Research: Whereto From Here? 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
WMD Terrorism: The Once and Future Threat 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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"Peace and Conflict" Features Research from START Investigators
'Carrot' Works Better than 'Stick' Against Terror in Israel
‘The Three Pillars’ book tour offers insight to international governments
***Terrorist Attacks on Religious Figures, Religious Institutions, and Military Targets***
**START Releases 2010 Update to the Global Terrorism Database**
*New Training Program* Crisis Manager's Course: Leadership for Catastrophic Events
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats
2011-2012 Background Report Undergraduate Terrorism Analysis Training (UTAT) Program Application Deadline Extended
2014 GTD data available now
A case study of radicalization offers implications for CVE
A Discussion with Dr. Matthew Levitt, Author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
A Smart Bomb in Every Garage? Driverless Cars and the Future of Terrorist Attacks
A Tale of Two Caliphates
Al-Qaida's fatal terrorism under Osama bin Laden
Analyzing peace and civil conflict
Applications Now Being Accepted from UMaryland Undergraduates for Terrorism Studies Minor Program
Apply Now: Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism
Background Information on Terrorism in India
Ballots instead of bullets
Black Swans and Burstiness: Oct. 4 Lecture
Braniff briefs INSCOM
Braniff participates in World Summit on Counterterrorism
Braniff presents "Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Global Jihadism"
Breiger turns regression models 'inside out'
Call for papers for a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence on "Criminological approaches to the study of terrorism"
Call for Posters: Emergency Pre-Event Communication
Call for Proposals: Interactive teaching units on human aspects of cybersecurity
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
CASE awards START top honors
CBRN terrorism by non-state actors
CHC Global CEO and START Director speak on security during virtual event for SIA Government Summit
Climate change: Fueling terror and extremism
CTED and New York University co-host event highlighting 20 years of counter-terrorism
CVE: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Database spotlight: Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)
Database Spotlight: Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB)
Database Spotlight: Muslim Public Opinion and Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda and U.S. Policies
Database Spotlight: Police Response to Terrorism - Lessons from the Israeli Police
Database spotlight: Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States (PPT-US)
Database Spotlight: Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries (RANNSAD)
Despite fewer attacks in Western world, global terrorism increasing
Detecting deception
Developing algorithms to thwart terrorism
DHS grant enables further work using physics to understand terrorist threats
DHS renews support for START terrorism research for next five years
DHS renews support for the Integrated U.S. Security Database (IUSSD)
DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Dr. Charles E. McQueary, speaks to START
Discussion Point: Beyond al-Qa'ida
Discussion Point: Black Swans and Burstiness—Countering Myths about Terrorism
Discussion Point: Communities on the Front Lines Against Terrorism
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding
Discussion Point: Introducing 'Political Resilience'
Discussion Point: Is Aaron Alexis part of a larger phenomenon of lone-actor grievance-based violence?
Discussion Point: It's not Big Data, but Little Data, that Prevents Terrorist Attacks
Discussion Point: Should START Researchers Embrace the Brain?
Discussion Point: Terrorism Studies is not a Sub-Discipline
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Discussion Point: The Dog that Doesn't Bark
Discussion Point: The End of Radicalization?
Discussion Point: The State of Al-Qaida, its Affiliates and Associated Groups
Discussion Point: Transcending Organization: Individuals and “The Islamic State”
Dr. Erica Chenoweth: Global thinker, peace researcher
Earn a graduate certificate through START
Enacting best practices in risk communication
Exciting Winter Courses Now Offered ONLINE
Fahey discusses political instability, state capacity and terrorism
Fall Internship Opportunities: Counter Measures against Extremism and Terrorism (CoMET) Database
Farah Pandith explores how to defeat the extremist threat
First-of-its-kind index ranks countries for impact of terrorism
Foreign Policy names Erica Chenoweth a top global thinker
Formalization within a terrorist group increases capacity for lethal violence
Gary LaFree in 'The Five Myths of Global Terrorism' video for the World Economic Forum
Global Terrorism Database Data Files Now Available through Terrorism and Preparedness Data Resource Center
Global Terrorism Database now Available Online
Global terrorism decreases in 2018 as recent uptick in U.S. terrorist attacks was sustained
Global Terrorism Overview: Terrorism in 2019
Government Executive Magazine Spotlights the Work of START
Graphic design, the Navy and geospatial coding
GTD Data Now Downloadable
GTD informs Global Terrorism Index
GTD nominated for UMD's Invention of the Year
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
How Public Health Can Improve Initiatives to Counter Violent Extremism
ICONS simulations help professors move instruction online quickly
ICONS team releases report on escalation management in gray zone international crises
Innovative START project wins UMD-TEC seed funding
Institute for Economics and Peace releases 2020 Global Terrorism Index
Interactive tool, dubbed The World of Terror, offers users a glimpse into GTD-based terrrorist trends
Interns extend growing relationship between START and State Department
Internships at START Available for Spring 2010
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?
Jeffrey Lewis discusses history and culture behind suicide bombings
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Data Collection Manager
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Radicalization Researcher
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Researcher, Global Terrorism Database
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Senior Research Associate
JOB OPPORTUNITY: START Special Research Projects IT Assistant
John Cohen's keynote address at START Annual Meeting
Justice Research and Statistics Association Features a Profile of START
Kruglanski Honored by Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Kurt Braddock’s ‘Weaponized Words’ teaches how to outtalk a terrorist
LaFree Discusses Terrorism Myths and Realities
LaFree gives talk at Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
LaFree recognized as field leader by American Society of Criminology
LaFree speaks at National Institute of Justice conference
Leading terrorism expert discusses mobilization of women into terrorist networks
Lone-actors fueled by grievance, personal crises, weapons use
Majority of 2013 terrorist attacks occurred in just a few countries
Masculine honor ideology shapes responses to terrorism
Materials Available from START Seminar, "The Role of Academia in Homeland Security"
New database provides insights into terrorism countermeasures
New editor will take on post for START-Oxford University Press book series
New Fall 2008 UMD Course: Innovation and Terrorist Tactics
New GTD data will be explored during July 9 webinar
New journal is a resource for Global Terrorism Research
New Modern War Institute article series focuses on cyber and influence operations
New project explores the relationship between belief and action of terrorist groups
New project seeks to provide DARPA with ways to deter CBRN attacks by non-state actors
New Report Highlights the Challenges of Tracking Terrorism Events: GTD Indicates Global Terrorism Fatalities Up, Not Down
New report: Social media use during disasters
New Research Briefs Available from START
New START Research Brief: Pathways Towards Radicalization
New study evaluates English-language jihadist magazine
New study shows alliances and not religious ideology are key to forecasting CBRN pursuit
New, Updated Data on Global Terrorist Activity Now Available
Now Hiring: Faculty Researcher/Post-Doc
Now Hiring: Global Terrorism Database Research Assistant
Now Recruiting Spring 2013 Background Report Internships
Olympics and Terrorism
Policing Terrorism
Policy specialist takes on new challenge with START's Graduate Certificate
Position Opening: Special Projects Program Manager
Post-Doc Opportunity for Information Management Expert for Data Archive
Press Release: START Panel Addresses Key Questions in Terrorism
Prevention and Protection in an Age of Terror
Remittances and the financing of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa
REPORT RELEASE: ICSR/START Report on Prison Radicalisation to be Launched at New York Summit
Research Brief: Law Enforcement Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism
Research Brief: Terrorism Trends with a Focus on Energy and Mining
Research identifies most likely non-state chem-bio threats
Research Internships Available for Fall 2007 at the University of Maryland
Research Roundtable details the patterns of terrorism worldwide
Research Roundtable event features START researcher Brandon Behlendorf
Researcher analyzes how community ties impact terrorist groups’ targeting of civilians
Researcher Spotlight: Amy Pate
Researcher spotlight: Anthony Lemieux
Researcher spotlight: Brandon Behlendorf
Researcher Spotlight: Daniella Fridl
Researcher Spotlight: Erica Chenoweth
Researcher Spotlight: Erik Dahl
Researcher Spotlight: Jeff Gruenewald
Researcher Spotlight: Kelly Damphousse
Researcher Spotlight: Lauren Pinson
Researcher Spotlight: Michele Gelfand
Researcher Spotlight: Monica Schoch-Spana
Researcher Spotlight: Nil Satana
Researcher Spotlight: Risa Brooks
Researcher Spotlight: Ronald Breiger
Researchers identify characteristics of groups poised for violence
Response to mischaracterization of the Hot Spots Report
Rigid cultural values related to greater number of terrorist attacks
SC's Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute releases Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI)
School principals can help assess community resilience
Secretary Janet Napolitano visits START
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center
Significant Terrorism Events in the News -- Nov. 1-20
Significant Terrorism Events in the News: September 2013
Singaporean delegation discusses countering extremist propaganda with START
Spring 2011 START Bulletin Now Available
START adds third course to summer line-up
START Advisory Board member quoted in "Daily Telegraph" and CNN
START Affiliate Offers Master's Degree in Counter Terrorism and Security Studies
START Affiliate Releases Report on Al-Awlaki
START aims to strengthen defense capabilities against WMD-seeking terrorists
START and CHC Global to speak at IFTRIP LIVESTREAM 2020
START Announces 2007-08 Fellowship Awards
START Announces 2009 Curriculum Development Grant Recipients
START Announces 2009-10 Terrorism Research Awards
START Announces 2009-2010 Undergraduate Research Program Award Recipients
START Announces 2010-2011 Terrorism Research Awards and Undergraduate Research Program Participants
START Announces 2011-2012 Terrorism Research Award Participants
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Annual Meeting focuses on maximizing relevance of research
START Assesses Impact of 9/11
START becomes official organizational member of the RESOLVE Network
START Center Earns Background Report-Year Renewal from DHS
START co-hosts workshop on the security of critical system supply chains
START Co-PI Kruglanski receives Regents' Faculty Research Award from University System of Maryland
START collaborators contribute to important CVE work
START director addresses common myths of terrorism
START Director Gary LaFree Comments on Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11
START Director Gary LaFree in Perspectives on Terrorism -- Free Online Access
START Director LaFree and GTD Featured in Government Executive
START Director LaFree Discusses Terrorist Behavior on Kojo Nnamdi Show
START Director LaFree to Moderate Discussion with Secretary Napolitano and Governor O'Malley
START Director speaks at United Nations informal dialogue series on counterterrorism
START director to lecture on contrasting nature of terrorism
START executive director to testify before Congress on the state of al-Qaida
START Featured in DHS S&T Snapshots
START formalizes commitment to Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
START hosts conference on mental health, education and countering violent extremism
START Hosts Delegation of CVE Experts from Middle East
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams
START Intern Profiles: July
START interns gain unique experience with State Department
START interns get vital career preparation
START interns nominated for DHS award
START interns prepare for capstone presentations
START investigator, Susan Cutter, advises Congress
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START investigators present research at national conference
START launches infographic series with War on the Rocks
START launches new tool for counterterrorism community
START Launches Research Brief Series
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast
START Newsletter: US beliefs before, after Boston bombings; Terrorist targeting of civilians; Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
START Newsletter: Violent hate crimes and lone-actor terrorism; Cultural values and terrorism; Al-Shabaab
START participates in risk communication conference
START Partners with ICPSR to Launch Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center
START Partners with Maryland Leadership Institute
START provides 2013 statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism
START provides statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism
START receives DHS Spirit of Excellence Award
START Releases 2011 Research Review
START releases first Research Review
START releases new data collections
START Research Contributes to House Intelligence Report
START research examines history of terrorism and the Olympic Games
START research informs Senate report on Chesser
START Research Symposium: Wednesday, June 28th
START research travels far in the cyber-physical domain
START Researcher Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology
START researcher awarded top paper
START researcher explores how terrorism affects democracy, compares Turkey and US
START researcher invited to discuss terrorists' motivations
START researcher participates in homeland security panel
START researcher presents paper on preventing illegal weapons trafficking in international waters at CBRNe USA Conference
START researcher to publish book on suicide bombings
START researchers awarded nearly $1 million to improve effectiveness of emergency alert text messaging
START researchers awarded top honors for applying marketing framework to violent groups
START researchers brief Swedish delegation
START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability
START Researchers Featured in Journal of Homeland Security
START researchers fight cybercrime with old school criminology
START Researchers Honored with Best Paper Award by IEEE
START researchers participate in Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Global Summit
START Researchers Participate in Session on Psychology of Terrorism
START Researchers Present at American Political Science Association Annual Conference
START researchers present on the impact of climate change on terrorism
START researchers present work on transnational criminal organizations, terrorism and radiological/nuclear (RN) smuggling
START responds to White House report on preventing violent extremism
START Response to Death of bin Laden
START resumes Global Terrorism Database collection; 1970 - 2019 data file now available to researchers
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START seminar lecturer receives top honors
START strengthens ties to private industry with strategic partnership, publications, events
START students discuss job opportunities with Lockheed Martin executives
START students take advantage of exclusive CIA opportunity
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists
START team develops dataset on cyberattacks against critical infrastructure
START teams up with the University of Oklahoma to study effective counterterrorism strategies
START to begin monthly series highlighting Dataverse data collections
START to expand social media presence
START to Mark Official Launch of Offices with Public Remarks
START to offer Massive Open Online Course
START Visiting Fellow featured in NY Times Magazine
START website proves critical resource for scholars, government
START Welcomes New Advisory Board Member
START welcomes visiting scholar
START workshop gives better understanding of CBRN technologies
START, Centers of Excellence leaders visit Capitol Hill
START's Clark McCauley to Serve as Editor of New Journal on Asymmetric Conflict
START's spring seminar features internationally recognized terrorism scholar
START's training events help others understand terrorism
START's website proves valuable, well-used resource
State Department contracts START to provide terrorism data and analysis
Student researches ties between terrorism and the Olympics
Study finds that warning banners deter hackers
Summer 2011 Research Opportunities: CoMET
Summer and Fall Internship Opportunities with START and the GTD
Summer Course Offerings
Summer courses for credit through START
Summer Opportunities for Undergrads at UMD
Taking the Sinai Province of the Islamic State seriously without helping it destabilize Egypt
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014
Terrorism expert discusses new research during START Seminar
Terrorism in Belgium and Western Europe; Attacks against Transportation Targets; Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
Terrorism studies graduate certificate application deadline is quickly approaching
Terrorism Studies Minor information sessions
Terrorism studies minor now accepting applications
Terrorism: A Self-Love Story
Terrorist attack deaths increase in Iraq, the West, despite decrease worldwide
Terrorist Organization Profile Information now Available through START
Terrorist violence decreases worldwide in 2017, but remains historically high
Terrorists act locally
The Federal Semester Program: Homeland Security Policy is Now Accepting Applications
The tradeoffs between protecting against man-made and natural disasters
Today: START Seminar: Why Radicalize? Follow live on Twitter
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research
UMD president chairs inaugural DHS Academic Advisory Panel
UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
UMD-led study shows disparities in violence among extremist groups
Under Secretary Sonenshine speaks to University of Maryland about State Department's public diplomacy successes
Understanding Resilience in Anti-Occupation Resistance Movements
Violent extremism in the U.S.
Violent hate crimes offer insights into lone-actor terrorism
White House Science and Technology Director Addresses Need for Innovations to Combat Terrorism
White Paper: A Multi-Layer Assessment of Terrorism in its Current and Future Manifestation
White Paper: Perspectives on Terrorism and Responses to It
Working with al-Qaeda Documents: An Analyst's View before 9/11
Title Job Title Institution
person-default Alexandra Williams Junior Researcher University of Maryland
Amy Pate Amy Pate START Acting Director University of Maryland
anthony Lemieux Anthony Lemieux Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program Georgia State University
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
person-default Benjamin Evans Faculty Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database, START University of Maryland
person-default Devin Ellis Researcher, ARLIS University of Maryland
Egle Egle Murauskaite Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START University of Maryland
Elizabeth Elizabeth Radziszewski Associate Research Scientist, START University of Maryland
Miller Erin Erin Miller Former GTD Program Manager, START University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman Gary Ackerman Associate Professor, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 		University of Maryland
Gina_Ligon Gina Scott Ligon Director of National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE); Jack and Stephanie Koraleski Professor of Collaboration Science, UNO University of Nebraska Omaha
Joshua Freilich Joshua Freilich Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Izsak Katherine Katherine Worboys Izsak Academic Director, UMD College of Information (iSchool) University of Maryland
Lindquist Katy Lindquist Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Laura Dugan Laura Dugan Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University
Romm madeline Madeline Romm Faculty Specialist University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START 		University of Maryland
Crenshaw Martha Martha Crenshaw Researcher, Political Science/International Relations Stanford University
person-default Michael Jensen Former Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
R. Karl Rethemeyer R. Karl Rethemeyer Associate Professor of Public Administration & Policy University at Albany, State University of New York
person-default Rhyner Washburn Research Affiliate University of Maryland
Salma_Bouziani Salma Bouziani Project Manager/Researcher, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Sheehan Kane Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Steve S. Sin Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist & Director, Unconventional & Asymmetric Threats Division
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University
Adjunct Instructor for Forensic Sciences, Oklahoma State University
Chief Academic Officer, Platinum East 		University of Maryland
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START 		University of Maryland
Clark tyler Tyler A. Clark Data Scientist, Doctoral Student University of Maryland
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Former Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
Braniff William William Braniff Executive Director of PERIL at American University; co-Founding Board Member of We the Veterans and Military Families American University
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A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism
Al-Qa'ida Transcript Coding Project
An Integrated Conception of Community Resilience
Anatomizing Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs
Assessing Success and Failure in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Development of Metrics on the Global War on Terror and the Global Jihad
Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC)
Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict
Cargo Aviation Insider Threat Assessment Tool (CAITAT)
CBRN CBRN: Violent Non-State Actor Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Data Portal Go
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Comparing Failed, Foiled, Completed and Successful Terrorist Attacks
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Death in a Small Package: A Social History of Anthrax
Decision Making and Simulation
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+
Deradicalization of Extremists
Dissuading Adversaries and their Radiological/Nuclear Pathways: Integrating Deterrence Theory and Analytics in the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA)
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns
Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies
Empirical Analysis of IED Attacks
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database
Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance
Geospatial and Temporal Patterns of US Terrorism
GRAT Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats (GRAT) Go
GTD Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism?
Ideologies and Motivations of Terrorist Organizations
Influencing Violent Extremist Organizations: Empirical Assessment Project
Insider Threat for Inbound International Air Cargo
Integrated Discovery of Emerging and Novel Technologies (IDENT)
Integration of International Architecture Analysis
Investigating Emerging and Near-Future Urban Security Challenges
IVEO IVEO Knowledge Matrix Go
Key Dimensions in Understanding Terrorist Bomb Attacks
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat
Measuring Up: Aligning SOF and Interagency CT Efforts Across the Tactical, Operational and Strategic Levels
Minorities at Risk Related Projects
Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks
Modeling Terrorism Onset and Intensity Dynamics Using the GTD
Modeling the Emergence of Leaders in Self-Organizing Social Networks
More Bang for the Buck?: Examining the Effect of Technological Change on Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
New Analytical Methods for the Exploitation of Open-Source Structured Databases to Enhance Situational Awareness for Effective Counter-WMD Strategies
NuFAD Nuclear Facility Attack Database Go
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization
Organizational Determinants of Violence and Performance
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism
Profiles of Incidents Involving CBRN and Non-state Actors (POICN) Database
Profiling the CB Adversary: Motivation, Psychology and Decision
RANNSAD Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries Database (RANNSAD) Go
Radiological/Nuclear Adversaries Future Project
Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence
Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space
SMICI Significant Multi-domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Go
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity
START-Oxford University Press Book Series
State Response and Terrorist Activity
TPDRC Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center (TPDRC) Go
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database
Terrorist Attacks on the Homeland
Terrorist Groups and Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations
Training in Risk and Crisis Communication (TRACC)
Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT)
Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset
Using Experimental Research to Study the Dynamics of Radicalization, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism
Validating Models of Adversary Behavior
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations
Wargaming, Social Complexity, and Asymmetric Threats
Where the Extremes May Touch: The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamist, Right- and Left-Wing Extremists