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Sub-Saharan Africa


Sub-Saharan Africa

Project Title Investigators Project Period
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin Barnett S. Koven July, 2018 to June, 2020
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media Gary LaFree September, 2014 to September, 2019
Organized and/or Transnational Crime/Drug Cartel Nexus with Illicit Radiological/Nuclear Trade, Smuggling and/or Terrorism in Europe and North, Sahelian and West Africa Amy Pate, John Sawyer, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin September, 2013 to March, 2015
An Assessment of Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-daʻwa wal-Jihād (Boko Haram): Strengths, Vulnerabilities and Policy Options Amy Pate July, 2014 to November, 2014
Project Title Publication Date START Authors Publication Type
A Study of Selected Ethnic Affiliations in the Development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Psychopathology After a Terrorist Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya September 2017 Pfefferbaum, Betty Journal Article
Boko Haram Recent Attacks May 2014 Pate, Amy; Miller, Erin; Jensen, Michael Background Report
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options January 2015 Pate, Amy START Reports
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa July 2013 Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor Journal Article
Introducing the Nonviolent Action in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) dataset January 2019 Chenoweth, Erica Journal Article
Networks as strategic repertoires: Functional differentiation among Al-Shabaab terror cells May 2013 Leuprecht, Christian Journal Article
Political Demography of Conflict in Mali June 2018 Leuprecht, Christian Report
Rethinking Transnational Terrorism: An Integrated Approach February 2020 Crenshaw, Martha Report
South Africa's Project Coast: "Death Squads," Covert State-Sponsored Poisonings, and the Dangers of CBW Proliferation January 2006 Bale, Jeffrey Journal Article
Statistical Analysis of Event Data Concerning Boko Haram in Nigeria (2009-2013) January 2015 Stevenson, John START Reports
Street-level Repression: Protest, Policing, and Dissent in Uganda July 2020 Behlendorf, Brandon Journal Article
Surveying the Literature on Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, and Countering Violent Extremism: A Summary Report with a Focus on Africa January 2015 Pate, Amy START Reports
Terrorism in Mali November 2015 Miller, Erin Fact Sheet
The Relationship between Maternal Psychopathology and Parental Perceptions of Their Children’s Reactions in Survivors of the 1998 US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya November 2019 Pfefferbaum, Betty Journal Article
The Transnational Security Threat from D-Company January 2015 Joshi, Sharad Book Chapter
Trauma, Grief, and Depression in Nairobi Children After the 1998 Bombing of the American Embassy July 2006 Pfefferbaum, Betty; Pfefferbaum, Rose Journal Article
Using Google and Twitter to Measure, Validate and Understand Views about Religion across Africa June 2019 Adamczyk, Amy; LaFree, Gary Journal Article
Image Title Job Title Institution
Amy Pate Amy Pate

START Executive Director and Research Director

 University of Maryland
Martha Crenshaw Martha Crenshaw

Researcher, Political Science/International Relations

 Stanford University
Nathan Meehan

Director of Research and Development, Second Sight Training Systems, LLC

 Second Sight Training Systems, LLC
Salma Bouziani

Project Manager/Researcher, START

 University of Maryland
Stevan Weine Stevan Weine

Professor of Psychiatry

 University of Illinois at Chicago

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