Ethnic Conflict and Violence

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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven	July, 2016 to June, 2017
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization	Johanna Birnir, Nil Satana	July, 2013 to December, 2016
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer	July, 2012 to December, 2016
Minorities at Risk Related Projects		June, 2005 to December, 2016
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat	Gary LaFree, William Braniff, Katherine Worboys Izsak	January, 2014 to March, 2014
The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America	Johanna Birnir	September, 2008 to December, 2012
Dealing with the Devil: When Bargaining with Terrorists Works	Erica Chenoweth, Laura Dugan	June, 2009 to December, 2011
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal	June, 2008 to December, 2011
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom	Clark McCauley	June, 2008 to May, 2011
The Impact of Israeli Counterterrorism Interventions on Rate and Intensity of Terrorist Activity: Hazard Modeling and Time Series Approaches	Arie Kruglanski	July, 2008 to June, 2010
The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal	June, 2005 to May, 2009

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Political Demography of Conflict in Mali	June 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Report
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia	December 2021	Henkin, Samuel D.	Report
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah	December 2021		Report
Ethnicity and Altruism after Violence: The Contact Hypothesis in Kosovo	October 2014	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists	March 2005	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
The Evolution of Prosociality and Parochialism After Violence	July 2016	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
When Women Fight: Unemployment, Territorial Control and the Prevalence of Female Combatants in Insurgent Organizations	December 2019	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism	January 2018	LaFree, Gary; Gruenewald, Jeff	Journal Article
Lowest of the Low: Why Some Countries Suffer Terrorist Attacks against Schools	December 2019	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Spotting the Threat	July 2014	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
Socially Relevant Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Structure, and AMAR	August 2014	Pate, Amy; Birnir, Johanna; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Journal Article
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era	July 2018	Krause, Peter	Journal Article
Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict	November 2014	Piazza, James A.; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa	July 2013	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism	February 2013	Birnir, Johanna; Satana, Nil	Journal Article
Service-Seeking Behavior, Perceptions of Armed Actors, and Preferences Regarding Governance: Evidence from the Palestinian Territories	May 2015	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective	April 2013	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Discrimination, Genocide, and Politicide	February 2019	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Why Split? Organizational Splits among Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East	April 2012	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
What Explains Ethnic Organizational Violence? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Russia	November 2015	Phillips, Brian; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
The Reason We Don't Know	March 2012	Pate, Amy; Birnir, Johanna; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Gurr, Ted Robert	Journal Article
Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns?	December 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
Friends in High Places: State Support for Violent and Non-violent Ethnopolitical Organizations	June 2019	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Postmemory and the Geographies of Violence at Kraing Ta Chan, Cambodia	August 2018	Henkin, Samuel D.	Journal Article
Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide: A Case of Selective Urbicide	January 2014	Henkin, Samuel D.	Journal Article
What Comes after ISIS? A Peace Proposal	January 2016	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape: Memorialization in Cambodia	July 2014	Henkin, Samuel D.	Journal Article
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data	August 2017	Birnir, Johanna; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Gurr, Ted Robert	Journal Article
Social Norms after Conflict Exposure and Victimization by Violence: Experimental Evidence from Kosovo	July 2018	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia	June 2010	Mincheva, Lyubov; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book Chapter
Under What Conditions Does Ethnic Conflict Result in Armed Violence?	January 2017	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
Extremes of asymmetric conflict: terrorism and genocide	January 2012	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
Religion and Political Mobilization	March 2019	Birnir, Johanna	Book Chapter
Forecasting the Use of Violence by Ethno–Political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence, V. S. Subrahmanian, ed.	November 2012	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book Chapter
Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years	May 2014	Capps, Ron	Book
Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions	July 2002	Mainuddin, Rolin	Book
Myth and Reality in International Politics: Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action	September 2015	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book
A Study of Crisis	January 2000	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book
Mediating International Crises	November 2006	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor	Book
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements	October 2015	della Porta, Donatella	Book
Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices	September 2018	Gurr, Ted Robert	Book
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder	August 2006	McCauley, Clark	Book
Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict	August 2010	Chenoweth, Erica	Book
Peace and Conflict 2010	November 2009	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security	May 2013	Gurr, Ted Robert	Book

Title	Byline
Marginalization, discrimination create greater risk of radicalization for immigrants
START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability	Jessica Rivinius
Dr. Bidisha Biswas discusses Indian Government’s approaches to managing conflict	Scott Jones
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
Researcher Spotlight: Daniella Fridl
Discussion Point: Counterterrorism Strategies and Democracy: Lessons for the US from the (Unfortunate) Example of Turkey	Nil Satana
START researcher explores how terrorism affects democracy, compares Turkey and US	Mary Beck
Intern Spotlight: Rick Magill	Catherine Llamido
Researcher Spotlight: Amy Pate	Jessica Rivinius
State Department contracts START to provide terrorism data and analysis
Researcher Spotlight: Nil Satana	Catherine Llamido
Research Brief: Law Enforcement Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism
Database Spotlight: Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB)	Sacha Ginsberg
Leading terrorism expert discusses mobilization of women into terrorist networks	Samantha Goldman
Terrorism expert discusses new research during START Seminar	Claire Simon
Exciting Winter Courses Now Offered ONLINE
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
*Background Info: Moscow Subway Bombing*
Internships at START Available for Spring 2010
New Dataset on Ethnically Based Organizations Released
START's Clark McCauley to Serve as Editor of New Journal on Asymmetric Conflict
New Research Brief Released: The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Title	Job Title	Institution
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Katy Lindquist	Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Marcus A. Boyd	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START Director of Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Markus Binder	Project Manager/Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Peter Simi	Associate Professor, Chapman University Director, Earl Babbie Research Center	Chapman University
Robert D. Lamb	ICONS Director and Associate Research Scientist	University of Maryland
Samuel D. Henkin	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Tyler Yates	Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	University of Maryland
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York