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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to October, 2022
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism	Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin	January, 2022 to May, 2022
Advancing U.S. CWMD/CWMT Capabilities in Support of the SIGMA+ Program through Development of Anticipatory Human Social Systems Models and Adversary Weapon Selection Decision Processes	Steve Sin, Thomas Guarrieri	March, 2020 to March, 2022
Measuring Up: Aligning SOF and Interagency CT Efforts Across the Tactical, Operational and Strategic Levels	Barnett S. Koven	July, 2019 to July, 2020
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends	Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin	July, 2019 to July, 2020
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin	Barnett S. Koven	July, 2018 to June, 2020
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff	September, 2018 to December, 2019
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Barnett S. Koven	February, 2019 to August, 2019
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence		January, 2018 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven	August, 2017 to April, 2018
Comparing Failed, Foiled, Completed and Successful Terrorist Attacks	Erik Dahl, Margaret Wilson, Martha Crenshaw	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven	July, 2016 to June, 2017
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs	William Braniff	June, 2016 to May, 2017
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance	Marcus A. Boyd	July, 2015 to July, 2016
Drivers of Conflict and Convergence in China-U.S. Relations in a Global Context	Amy Pate, John Stevenson	March, 2014 to March, 2015
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict	Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree	January, 2013 to August, 2014
Anatomizing Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries	Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale, R. Karl Rethemeyer	June, 2012 to January, 2014
Validating Models of Adversary Behavior	Jun Zhuang	July, 2012 to December, 2013
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting Against Dangerous Entrants	Brent Smith, Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Kathleen Smarick	March, 2010 to August, 2012
Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies	Martha Crenshaw	June, 2008 to November, 2011
Assessing Success and Failure in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Development of Metrics on the Global War on Terror and the Global Jihad	Rashmi Singh	June, 2008 to October, 2011
Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses	James Pennebaker	November, 2008 to May, 2010
The Effects of Terrorism on Police Organization, Police Effectiveness in Crime Fighting and Public Expectations of and Attitudes toward the Police: A Multi-method Study of the Israeli Experience	David Weisburd	January, 2006 to May, 2009

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
45 Years of Terrorism: Terrorist Attacks 1970-2015, Concentration and Intensity	July 2016	Kammerer, William	Map
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism	May 2022	Romm, Madeline; Boyd, Marcus A.; Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
Alliance Hubs: Focal Points in the International Terrorist Landscape	May 2014	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
Analyzing Political and Social Regional Stability with Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities	January 2010	Asal, Victor	White Paper
Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime-Type on Terrorist Attacks	October 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Broadening the Discussion about Women and Violent Extremism	June 2015	Szmania, Susan	Discussion Point
Characteristics of Terrorism Hotspots	August 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Civil Resistance: Reflections on an Idea Whose Time Has Come	July 2014	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
Competing with Great Powers Through Competitive Strategy and Unconventional Warfare	April 2021	Koven, Barnett S.	Journal Article
Countering Nuclear and Radiological Materials Illicit Trafficking Through Maritime Security Initiatives: Paper Tiger or Concrete Solution? A Case Study	May 2015	Sin, Steve	Conference Paper
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions	January 2017	LaFree, Gary; Crenshaw, Martha	Book
Countering the Inhumane: Modeling Probable Pathways for Human Smuggling and Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border	May 2015	Behlendorf, Brandon; Zhuang, Jun; Johns, Mila	Research Brief
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
Country Reports on Terrorism 2013: Annex of Statistical Information	May 2014	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary	START Reports
Defining and Understanding the Jihadi-Salafi Movement	June 2014	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism	December 2009	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Democracy, Inclusion and Failure in Counterinsurgency	April 2016	Deloughery, Kathleen; Sin, Steve; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Deradicalizing Detained Terrorists	May 2017	Kruglanski, Arie; Gelfand, Michele	Journal Article
Disaggregating and Defeating Terrorist Safe Havens	December 2014	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	November 2013	Jensen, Michael	Discussion Point
Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us from Terrorism?	January 2008	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Ethnic Groups, Political Exclusion and Domestic Terrorism	December 2014	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Evolution of Global Terrorism: The Growing Lethality of Attacks	January 2018	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Expectations, Rivalries, and Civil War Duration	January 2005	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Journal Article
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences	September 2013	Crenshaw, Martha	Book
For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent World	December 2009	Flanigan, Shawn	Book
Foreign Military Interventions and Suicide Attacks	March 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Games Rivals Play: International Terrorism in Rivalries	January 2012	Piazza, James A.; Young, Joseph	Journal Article
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance	December 2017	Boyd, Marcus A.	Research Brief
Government Policies for Counteracting Violent Extremism	January 2019	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Gray Zone Crises in MENA and Eastern Europe	March 2017	Ellis, Devin; Murauskaite, Egle; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Capps, Ron	Research Brief
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2012, Concentation and Intensity	June 2013	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2013, Concentation and Intensity	June 2014	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2014, Concentation and Intensity	June 2015	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2015, Concentation and Intensity	June 2016	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2016, Concentation and Intensity	July 2017	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2017, Concentation and Intensity	August 2018	Kammerer, William	Map
Hezbollah's Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organised Crime	November 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?	September 2008	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Insurgency BAAD: Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns	October 2015	Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Research Brief
Integrating the Civil–Military Relations Subfield	May 2019	Brooks, Risa	Journal Article
Just Between Friends: Bilateral Cooperation and Bounded Sovereignty in the "Global War on Terror"	October 2009	Biswas, Bidisha	Journal Article
Mapping Today's Jihadi Landscape and Threat	May 2018	Moghadam, Assaf	Journal Article
Maritime Security Initiatives: A Paper Tiger or a Concrete Solution?	November 2016	Sin, Steve	Journal Article
Mass-Fatality, Coordinated Attacks Worldwide, and Terrorism in France	November 2015	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Measuring Fundamentalism Across the Abrahamic Faiths	May 2021	Moaddel, Mansoor	Journal Article
Migration, Crime, and Victimization	May 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta	Book Chapter
Myth and Reality in International Politics: Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action	September 2015	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book
Oil and Terrorism: An Investigation of Mediators	December 2016	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Opening Yourself Up: The Role of External and Internal Transparency in Terrorism Attacks	September 2014	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Paying it Forward: Canada's Renewed Commitment to NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence	March 2019	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Paying It Forward: Sustaining the Transatlantic Relationship with Canada’s Mission in the Baltics	October 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Report
Peace and Conflict 2014	April 2014	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book
Piracy and Counter-Piracy Cooperation in Southeast Asia (2000-2014)	July 2015	Stevenson, John	Research Brief
Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle	September 2007	Mainuddin, Rolin	Journal Article
President Trump’s Travel Ban: Inciting or Deterring Terrorism?	December 2019	Hodwitz, Omi	Journal Article
Private Militaries and the Security Industry in Civil Wars: Competition and Market Accountability	September 2020	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Book
Private Military & Security Companies, Conflict Complexity, and Peace Duration: An Empirical Analysis	July 2020	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Journal Article
Private Military Companies, Opportunities, and Termination of Civil Wars in Africa	October 2013	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Journal Article
Public Security in Federal Polities	March 2019	Leuprecht, Christian	Book
Radical Right Cross-National Links and International Cooperation	January 2018	Caiani, Manuela	Book Chapter
Radiological/Nuclear Detection Capability Development Framework Mapping Tool	March 2016	Boyd, Marcus; Sin, Steve	Project Fact Sheet
Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts	March 2020	Koven, Barnett S.	Report
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win	May 2017	Krause, Peter	Book
Recent U.S. Thinking about Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Babysteps towards a Dynamic View of Asymmetric Conflict	September 2010	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
Regime Age and Terrorism: Are New Democracies Prone to Terrorism?	January 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Regime Types and Terrorism	June 2017	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions	July 2002	Mainuddin, Rolin	Book
Religious Fundamentalism in Eight Muslim‐Majority Countries: Reconceptualization and Assessment	August 2018	Moaddel, Mansoor	Journal Article
Religious Fundamentalism, Liberal Nationalism, and Sectarian Solidarity among Lebanese	August 2021	Moaddel, Mansoor	Book Chapter
Repression and Terrorism: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis of Types of Repression and Domestic Terrorism	February 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises	May 2019	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan	Book
Rethinking Alternative Development	December 2015	Koven, Barnett S.	Journal Article
Risk-Mitigating Policies and Adversarial Behavior: Case of Backlash	June 2016	Mohtadi, Hamid	Journal Article
Rivalries and Crisis Bargaining	April 2021	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Book Chapter
Russian Aggression in Ukraine: Is There a Solution?	October 2016	Rutter, Megan	Journal Article
Russian Clients and Global Foreign Policy Strategy: Evidence from Foreign Military Sales	August 2015	Stevenson, John	START Reports
Scanning the Consequences of Demographic Change for the Emerging Landscape	February 2016	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter
Security Screening Queues with Impatient Applicants: A New Model with A Case Study	August 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances	March 2016	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Spatial Distribution of Minority Communities and Terrorism	July 2016	Arva, Bryan; Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies	April 2017	Lichbach, Mark	Book
Sub-state Actors' Threats to International Security: Religious Extremists and Terrorist Groups	March 2019	Joshi, Sharad	Book Chapter
Terrorism and Global Security	January 2007	Crenshaw, Martha	Book Chapter
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014	January 2014	Miller, Erin	Background Report
The Challenges of Terrorism in a Globalized World	May 2019	Pate, Amy	Book Chapter
The Future of Terrorism Research: A Review Essay	May 2014	Gruenewald, Jeffrey; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Illicit Drug Trade, Counternarcotics Strategies and Terrorism	December 2011	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Influence of Nationalism on Russian Security Policy: The Logics of (Dis)-Order and Terrorism in the Shift from Nation-State to Nation-Civilization	October 2015	Stevenson, John	START Reports
The Politics of Collective Action: Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism	February 2009	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling	December 2015	Murauskaite, Egle	Journal Article
Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) Process: Assessing RN Threat Inclusion	March 2016	Spalding, Sarah; Sin, Steve; Sell, Tara Kirk	Research Brief
Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support the Use of Torture in Counterterrorism	July 2020	Young, Joseph	Book
Towards Global Jihadism: Al-Qaeda's Strategic, Ideological and Structural Adaptations since 9/11	June 2012	Moghadam, Assaf; Braniff, William	Journal Article
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool	March 2016	Boyd, Marcus A.; Sin, Steve	Project Fact Sheet
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool: Project Fact Sheet	September 2013	Sawyer, John	Project Fact Sheet
Transnational Terror and Human Rights	March 2009	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism	November 2012	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Weaponizing Peace: Colombia’s Demobilized FARC as a Lever of Russian Influence	May 2019	Koven, Barnett S.	White Paper
Web of Links: Rival Connections and Strategic Accommodation in Response to Threats	January 2017	Radziszewski, Elizabeth	Journal Article
Western Muslims Volunteering to fight in Syria and Iraq: Why do they go, and what should we do?	July 2015	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
When Will Russia Use Force in Support of Foreign Policy Objectives? Comparative Evidence from the Ukrainian (2014) and Georgia (2008) Crises	February 2016	Stevenson, John	START Reports
Who Tortures the Terrorists? Transnational Terrorism and Military Torture	October 2014	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances	May 2018	Bacon, Tricia	Book

Title	Byline
START Director speaks at United Nations informal dialogue series on counterterrorism
START strengthens ties to private industry with strategic partnership, publications, events
Braniff takes on role with Hedayah International Advisory Board	Erin Copland
Koven takes on role as non-resident fellow at Modern War Institute	Erin Copland
GRU team gives virtual talk on cartels for National Security Forum	Erin Copland
Analyzing peace and civil conflict	Zane Moses
Wilkenfeld Discusses “International Negotiation in a Complex World”	Valerie Snaman
The Audacity of Hype: Why International Cooperation will easily defeat Piracy in Southeast Asia	John Stevenson, Garett Tippin
Discussion Point: Insider Threat in the Aviation Industry	Herbert Tinsley, Cory Davenport
START Hosts Delegation of CVE Experts from Middle East	Beth Schwartz
Dr. Erica Chenoweth: Global thinker, peace researcher	Charlotte Taylor
Rassler delves into the intricacies of the Haqqani Nexus	Charlotte Taylor
START reaches out to dozens of middle and high schoolers	Emily Smith
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014
Despite fewer attacks in Western world, global terrorism increasing
From carpentry to communication
START study examines U.S. attitudes, beliefs before and after the Boston Marathon bombings
FTO Designation: Boko Haram and Ansaru
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
START aims to strengthen defense capabilities against WMD-seeking terrorists	Laura Walker
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Hourly Research Assistant, Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
New journal is a resource for Global Terrorism Research	Sarah May
START hosts expert panel and career symposium on innovation in homeland security	Samantha Goldman
START students take advantage of exclusive CIA opportunity	Jessica Rivinius
Borders Case Study Project- Paid Internship
The Federal Semester Program: Homeland Security Policy is Now Accepting Applications
Research Internships Available for Fall 2007 at the University of Maryland
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Title	Job Title	Institution
Alexandra Williams	Junior Researcher	University of Maryland
Amy Pate	START Executive Director and Research Director	University of Maryland
Barnett S. Koven	Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Devin Ellis	Researcher, ARLIS	University of Maryland
Egle Murauskaite	Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START	University of Maryland
Elizabeth Radziszewski	Associate Research Scientist, START	University of Maryland
Erin Miller	GTD Program Manager, START	University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman	Associate Professor, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Gary LaFree	Founding Director, START; Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Maryland
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Katy Lindquist	Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Max Erdemandi	Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition	University of Maryland
Megan Rutter	Junior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Michael Jensen	Senior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Samuel D. Henkin	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Sheehan Kane	Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Thomas Guarrieri	Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons & Technology (UWT) Division, START	University of Maryland
Tyler A. Clark	Data Scientist, Doctoral Student	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
William Braniff	Department Chair, START Director Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland Editorial Board, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague Research Advisory Board, RESOLVE Network Independent Advisory Committee (IAC), Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) International Advisory Board, Hedayah Center	University of Maryland