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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal, Gary LaFree	October, 2008 to December, 2012
Terrorist Attacks on the Homeland	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States	Erin Miller, Michael Jensen	September, 2020 to January, 2022
START-Oxford University Press Book Series	Laura Dugan, Anthony Lemieux, Gary Ackerman, Gary LaFree	June, 2017 to December, 2024
Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven	July, 2016 to June, 2017
School Emergency Public Information and Warning/Information Sharing	Brooke Liu, Holly Roberts	October, 2015 to September, 2016
Radicalization in the Ranks	Michael Jensen, Sheehan Kane	April, 2021 to February, 2022
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States	Kathleen Smarick	October, 2010 to December, 2011
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks	Erin Miller	October, 2017 to August, 2019
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism	Gary LaFree	June, 2005 to June, 2009
Modeling Terrorism Onset and Intensity Dynamics Using the GTD	Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Nina Fefferman	July, 2016 to December, 2017
Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	May, 2005 to June, 2009
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat	Gary LaFree, William Braniff, Katherine Worboys Izsak	January, 2014 to March, 2014
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism?	Mark Lichbach	June, 2008 to August, 2011
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to October, 2022
Geospatial and Temporal Patterns of US Terrorism	Brent Smith, Kelly Damphousse	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)	Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree	January, 2013 to December, 2016
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns	Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	July, 2014 to December, 2017
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	January, 2005 to June, 2009
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
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+	Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin	July, 2018 to April, 2020
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
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
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
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism	Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin	January, 2022 to May, 2022

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Yes, No, and Maybe in the World of Terrorism Research: Reflections on the Commentaries	May 2009	Kruglanski, Arie; Fishman, Shira	Journal Article
With Friends Like These…Why Terrorist Organizations Ally	January 2016	Ackerman, Gary; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Why the United States is Targeted by Terrorism	October 2010	Crenshaw, Martha	Conference Paper
When terrorists target schools: An exploratory analysis of attacks on educational institutions	June 2013	Wilson, Margaret	Journal Article
When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations' Involvement in Drug Smuggling	November 2014	Milward, H. Brinton; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
When Terrorism Works: Explaining Success and Failure Across Varying Targets and Objectives	June 2018	Krause, Peter	Book Chapter
What Makes Terrorists Tick	June 2009	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
What is the State of Islamic Extremism: Key Trends, Challenges and Implications for U.S. Policy	February 2015	Braniff, William	Congressional Testimony
What Are the Social, Economic, Psychological and Environmental Risk Factors That Lead to Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism?	September 2017	Weisburd, David	Report
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
Veto Players and Terror	November 2010	Young, Joseph; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Using open source data to track worldwide terrorism patterns	July 2017	LaFree, Gary	Book Chapter
Use of Firearms in Terrorist Attacks in the United States 1970-2014	July 2015	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Update on Geospatial Patterns of Precurrsor Behavior among Terrorists	October 2012	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
Update on Geospatial Patterns of Antecedent Behavior among Perpetrators in the American Terrorism Study (ATS)	October 2013	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism	November 2017	Singh, Rashmi	Book
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism	September 2013	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Under What Conditions Does Ethnic Conflict Result in Armed Violence?	January 2017	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Research Highlight	October 2014	Adamczyk, Amy; LaFree, Gary; Tourangeau, Roger; Presser, Stanley	Research Brief
Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism	November 2012	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Trends in Global Terrorism, 1970-2007	November 2008	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Transnational Jihadism & Civil Wars	September 2017	Crenshaw, Martha	Journal Article
Trajectories of Terrorism: Attack Patterns of Foreign Groups That Have Targeted the United States, 1970-2004	September 2009	LaFree, Gary; Crenshaw, Martha; Yang, Sue-Ming	Journal Article
Tracking Global Terrorism, 1970-2004	November 2008	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?	October 2009	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
The True Meaning of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism	November 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails	December 2007	Neumann, Peter	Book
The Strategic Logic of Terrorism	June 2017	Crenshaw, Martha	Book Chapter
The State of Al-Qaeda its Affiliates, and Associated Groups: Views from Outside Experts	February 2014	Braniff, William	Congressional Testimony
The Social Psychological Makings of a Terrorist	February 2018	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
The Rise and the Fall of the Extreme Right in Europe: Towards an Explanation?	December 2007	Caiani, Manuela	Journal Article
The Rise and Fall of Terrorism	May 2019	Miller, Erin	Book Chapter
The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective	September 2021	Kruglanski, Arie	Book
The Paris Fidayin Attacks: Eight Years in the Making?	October 2015	Tinsley, Herbert	Discussion Point
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements	October 2015	della Porta, Donatella	Book
The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis	March 2012	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism	January 2018	LaFree, Gary; Gruenewald, Jeff	Journal Article
The Influence of External and Internal Correlates on the Organizational Death of Domestic Far-Right Extremist Groups	May 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism	November 2016	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Book
The Growing Importance of Criminology in the Study of Terrorism	November 2007	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks	July 2008	Moghadam, Assaf	Book
The Global Terrorism Database, 1970–2010	January 2013	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
The Geography of U.S. Terrorist Incidents, 1970-2004	July 2009	Cutter, Susan	Journal Article
The Empirical Study of Terrorism: Social and Legal Research	August 2009	Ackerman, Gary; LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
The Emergence of Lone Wolf Terrorism: Patterns of Behavior and Implications for Intervention	September 2015	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff; Damphousse, Kelly; Roberts, Paxton	Journal Article
The Effectiveness of Counterterrorism in Spain: A New Approach	February 2010	Chenoweth, Erica	Conference Paper
The Dog that Doesn't Bark	January 2013	Asal, Victor	Discussion Point
The Determinants of Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism in the USA: Economic Grievance, Societal Change and Political Resentment	March 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Debate over "New" vs. "Old" Terrorism	August 2007	Crenshaw, Martha	Conference Paper
The Curse of Cain: Why Fratricidal Jihadis Fail to Learn from Their Mistakes	November 2017	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
The Curious Incident of the Bench in the Daylight	April 2018	Quigley, Jillian; Binder, Markus; Earnhardt, Rebecca (Becca)	Journal Article
The Cost of Living and Terror: Does Consumer Price Volatility Fuel Terrorism?	April 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Canadian Way of Counterterrorism: Introducing the GATE-Canada Data Set	May 2016	Chenoweth, Erica; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Terrorist Hostage-taking	April 2018	Wilson, Margaret	Book Chapter
Terrorist Group Survival as a Measure of Effectiveness	June 2018	Phillips, Brian	Book Chapter
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity	June 2014	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure in the United States, 1970-2015	June 2016	Miller, Erin	START Reports
Terrorist Attacks Show Biggest Decline in a Decade; But Let's Wait Before Celebrating	June 2016	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary; Jensen, Michael	Discussion Point
Terrorist Attacks on Educational Institutions	December 2014	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. between 1970 and 2013: Data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	November 2014	Miller, Erin	Research Brief
Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. between 1970 and 2012: Data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	January 2014	Miller, Erin	Research Brief
Terrorism Trends with a Focus on Energy and Mining	June 2015	Pate, Amy	Research Brief
Terrorism Studies: A Reader	November 2010	Braddock, Kurt	Book
Terrorism Risk and Optimal Policy Response: Theory and Empirics	October 2019	Mohtadi, Hamid	Journal Article
Terrorism Research: The Record	July 2014	Crenshaw, Martha	Journal Article
Terrorism Research: Current Issues and Debates	September 2017	Wilson, Margaret	Book Chapter
Terrorism in Mali	November 2015	Miller, Erin	Fact Sheet
Terrorism in Belgium and Western Europe; Attacks against Transportation Targets; Coordinated Terrorist Attacks	March 2016	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014	January 2014	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Terrorism and the Olympics	July 2012	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Terrorism and State Repression: Strategic Choice and the Domestic Normative Context	June 2018	Foley, Frank	Book Chapter
Terrorism and Party Systems in the States of India	February 2010	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Terrorism and Democracy	May 2013	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
Terrorism and COVID-19: Actual and Potential Impacts	June 2020	Ackerman, Gary	Journal Article
Terrorism	January 2009	Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Syria Barometer Survey: Opinions about War in Syria and about Radical Action	June 2016	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	START Reports
Suicide Terrorism	April 2018	Moghadam, Assaf	Book Chapter
Sudden Desistance from Terrorism: The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Comandos of the Armenian Genocide	November 2008	McCauley, Clark; LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Structural Differences of Violent Extremist Offenders in Correctional Settings	June 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and Its Fallacies	January 2007	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
State Capacity and Terrorism: A Two-Dimensional Approach	May 2014	Young, Joseph	Journal Article
START Annual Meeting 2016: Quick-Fire Presentation - Terrorism and Radicalization	October 2016	Lemieux, Anthony; Koven, Barnett S.; Ackerman, Gary; LaFree, Gary; Ligon, Gina Scott; Satana, Nil; James, Patrick; Simi, Peter; Breiger, Ronald; Chermak, Steven	Presentation
Spatial Distribution of Minority Communities and Terrorism	July 2016	Arva, Bryan; Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Spatial Analysis of U.S. Terrorism Incidents	November 2017	Smith, Brent	Research Brief
Secure in their Beliefs: Personal Security, the Quest for Personal Significance, and the Psychology of Extremism	April 2015	Kruglanski, Arie	Book Chapter
Say Terrorist, Think Insurgent: Labeling and Analyzing Contemporary Terrorist Actors	October 2014	Moghadam, Assaf	Journal Article
Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach	April 2009	Mohtadi, Hamid	Journal Article
Responding to Terrorism? Human Rights Organization Shaming and Terrorist Attacks	September 2015	Deloughery, Kathleen; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Research Highlight: Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism -- A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism	October 2013	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan; Asal, Victor	Research Brief
Research Highlight: U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism	March 2013	Adamczyk, Amy; LaFree, Gary; Tourangeau, Roger; Presser, Stanley	Research Brief
Research Highlight: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs	May 2013	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	Research Brief
Repression and Terrorism: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis of Types of Repression and Domestic Terrorism	February 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Religious Fundamentalism among Young Muslims in Egypt and Saudi Arabia	June 2008	Moaddel, Mansoor	Journal Article
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism	February 2013	Birnir, Johanna; Satana, Nil	Journal Article
Regime Types and Terrorism	June 2017	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks	May 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Regime Age and Terrorism: Are New Democracies Prone to Terrorism?	January 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Recent U.S. Thinking about Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Babysteps towards a Dynamic View of Asymmetric Conflict	September 2010	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Slight	March 2015	Ackerman, Gary	Discussion Point
Radicalization in the Ranks	April 2022	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	START Reports
Radical Right Movement Parties in Europe	December 2018	Caiani, Manuela	Book
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)	January 2015	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book
Proud Boys Crimes and Characteristics	January 2022	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
Project Fact Sheet: Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the U.S. Database and Portal	May 2014	LaFree, Gary; Braniff, William	Project Fact Sheet
Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States (PPT‐US): Data Collection and Descriptive Analysis	September 2011	Miller, Erin; Smarick, Kathleen	START Reports
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters: Infographics	October 2017	Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Research Brief
Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15 Countries	July 2010	Neumann, Peter	Report
Poverty, Minority Economic Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism	March 2011	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Political Mobilization and Institutions	April 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Political Islam in the Former Soviet Union: Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan Compared	October 2010	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Patterns of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2014	May 2016	Miller, Erin	START Reports
Patterns of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2013	October 2014	Miller, Erin	START Reports
Patterns of Precursor Behaviors in the Life Span of a U.S. Environmental Terrorist Group	November 2009	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly	Journal Article
Patterns of Onset and Decline Among Terrorist Organizations	March 2012	Miller, Erin	Journal Article
Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the United States: Research Brief	October 2014	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff; Roberts, Paxton	Research Brief
Patterns of Islamic State-Related Terrorism, 2002--2015	August 2016	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Patterns of Intervention in Federal Terrorism Cases	August 2011	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly	START Reports
Patterns of Collective Desistance from Terrorism: Fundamental Measurement Challenges	October 2016	Miller, Erin	Journal Article
Pathways Toward Radicalization	October 2008	McCauley, Clark	Research Brief
Overview: Terrorism in 2016	August 2017	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Overview: Terrorism in 2014	August 2015	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Overview: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF)	April 2016	Tinsley, Herbert; Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Research Brief
Opening Yourself Up: The Role of External and Internal Transparency in Terrorism Attacks	September 2014	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers	December 2007	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
Old and New Terrorism	August 2009	Neumann, Peter	Book
NGO Interventions: Influences on Terrorist Activity	August 2016	Hodwitz, Omi	Journal Article
New vs. Old Terrorism: A Critical Appraisal	November 2007	Crenshaw, Martha	Book Chapter
MOOC: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat 2015	October 2014		Project Fact Sheet
Modelling Terrorist Technology Transfer	April 2019	Ackerman, Gary; Earnhardt, Rebecca (Becca)	White Paper
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States	January 2012	della Porta, Donatella; Caiani, Manuela	Book
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism	November 2006	Freilich, Joshua	Book
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention?	May 2015	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Mass-Fatality, Coordinated Attacks Worldwide, and Terrorism in France	November 2015	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Mass Casualty Explosives Attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan	June 2017	Miller, Erin; Distler, Michael	Background Report
Mapping and Deterring Violent Extremist Networks in North-West Africa	April 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Making the Wrong Connection: The Determinants of Terrorist Targeting of Airplanes and Airports	February 2010	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Legault, Richard; Asal, Victor	Conference Paper
Lying About Terrorism	April 2014	Young, Joseph	Journal Article
Losing your Audience: Desistance from Terrorism in Egypt after Luxor	November 2009	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
Lone-Offender Terrorists	July 2013	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Leaving the World of Hate: Life-Course Transitions and Self-Change	June 2015	Simi, Peter	Journal Article
IUSSD: Data on the Terrorist Attacks in the United States Homeland 1970-2011	November 2012	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	START Reports
Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates	October 2019	LaFree, Gary; Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Introductions to Adversary Behavior: Validating the Models	April 2016	Zhuang, Jun; Bier, Vicki	Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research	May 2015	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Integrated United States Security Database (IUSSD): Data on the Terrorist Attacks in the United States Homeland, 1970 to 2011	December 2012	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	START Reports
Infographic: Temporal Sequencing, Incident Sophistication, and Terrorist Outcomes	October 2016	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff	Research Brief
Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?	September 2008	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology	December 2021	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Ideological Motivations of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2016	November 2017	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Identity and Framing Theory, Precursor Activity, and the Radicalization Process	January 2016	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	Report
Identifying Cross-National Global Terrorist Hot Spots	November 2005	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
How Community Ties Influence Terrorist Targeting of Civilians	November 2013	Brooks, Risa	Research Brief
Historical Perspective and Future Directions in Research on Psychiatric Consequences of Terrorism and Other Disasters	September 2006	Pfefferbaum, Betty	Book Chapter
Helping Veterans Thrive: The Importance of Peer Support in Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism	March 2022	Braniff, William	Congressional Testimony
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2017, Concentation and Intensity	August 2018	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 2015, Concentation and Intensity	June 2016	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 2013, Concentation and Intensity	June 2014	Kammerer, William	Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2012, Concentation and Intensity	June 2013	Kammerer, William	Map
Have Motivations for Terrorism Changed?	November 2005	Crenshaw, Martha	Book Chapter
Grievance, Social Dominance Orientation, and Authoritarianism in the Choice and Justification of Terror Versus Protest	November 2010	Lemieux, Anthony; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Global Trends in Terrorism, 1970- 2011	April 2014	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Global Terrorism in 2018	October 2019	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Global Terrorism in 2017	August 2018	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Global Terrorism and the Deadliest Groups since 2001	June 2016	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice	September 2008	Brachman, Jarret	Book
Geospatial Patterns of Precurrsor Behavior among Terrorists	June 2011	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization	October 2011	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Games Rivals Play: International Terrorism in Rivalries	January 2012	Piazza, James A.; Young, Joseph	Journal Article
From Extremist to Terrorist: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs	April 2013	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
Foreign Military Interventions and Suicide Attacks	March 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
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
Fear and Anger Elicited by Terrorist Attack: The Power of Jujitsu Politics	March 2016	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	White Paper
Fact Sheet: Global Terrorism in 2018	October 2019	Miller, Erin	Fact Sheet
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship to Determine Whether They Are "Close Cousins" or "Distant Relatives"	December 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship	May 2016	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences	September 2013	Crenshaw, Martha	Book
Examining Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks Performed by Far-Left Groups	January 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Evolution of Global Terrorism: The Growing Lethality of Attacks	January 2018	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
Ethnic Groups, Political Exclusion and Domestic Terrorism	December 2014	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity	January 2015	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Encouraging and Assessing the Validity of Answers to Questions about Radicalization: The Use of Meta-opinions	March 2018	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	White Paper
Efficacy of Counterterrorism Approaches: Examining Northern Ireland	October 2006	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Research Brief
Early Detection of Terrorism Outbreaks Using Prospective Space–Time Scan Statistics	October 2012	Cutter, Susan	Journal Article
Draining the Swamp: Democracy Promotion, State Failure, and Terrorism in 19 Middle Eastern Countries	April 2007	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Does Political Radicalization Depend on Ideology?	November 2009	McCauley, Clark	Book Review
Does Legitimacy Matter? Attitudes Towards Anti-American Violence in Eqypt, Morcco, and Indonesia	September 2012	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Do 90 Percent of Terrorist Groups Last Less Than a Year? Updating the Conventional Wisdom	September 2017	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Desistance from Terrorism: What Can We Learn from Criminology?	November 2008	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism	November 2010	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism	December 2009	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Deadlier in the U.S.? On Lone Wolves, Terrorist Groups, and Attack Lethality	November 2015	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Cross-National Patterns of Terrorism: Comparing Trajectories for Total, Attributed and Fatal Attacks, 1970-2006	July 2010	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Cross-Milieu Terrorist Collaboration: Using Game Theory to Assess the Risk of a Novel Threat	April 2016	Ackerman, Gary; Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches	July 2015	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Book
Crime Pays: Terrorist Group Engagement in Crime and Survival	November 2017	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
County-Level Correlates of Terrorist Attacks in the United States	November 2014	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
County-level Correlates of Terrorism in the United States, 1990-2010	May 2014	LaFree, Gary	Research Brief
County-level Correlates of Terrorism in the United States, 1990 to 2010	March 2013	LaFree, Gary	START Reports
Country Reports on Terrorism 2013: Annex of Statistical Information	May 2014	Miller, Erin; LaFree, Gary	START Reports
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions	January 2017	LaFree, Gary; Crenshaw, Martha	Book
Countering Myths about Terrorism: Some Lessons Learned from the Global Terrorism Database	November 2011	LaFree, Gary	Book Chapter
Constructing Terrorism: From Fear and Coercion to Anger and Jujitsu Politics	November 2015	McCauley, Clark	Report
Comparing Different Sources of Data to Examine Trends of Hate Crime in Absence of Official Registers	September 2020	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Community‐Level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Methods Task Force	February 2010	Fishman, Shira	START Reports
Close Cousins or Distance Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime	October 2012	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights	May 2022	Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action	May 2022	Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
Climate Change and Security	May 2022	Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
Citizen Militias	May 2008	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Characteristics of Terrorism Hotspots	August 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Characteristics of Lone-Wolf Violent Offenders: a Comparison of Assassins and School Attackers	February 2013	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
Characteristics of Communities where American Terrorists, Lived, Planned, and Conducted their Attacks	February 2011	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians	August 2018	Phillips, Brian; Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Book Review: Lutz, J. M., & Lutz, B. J. (2005). Terrorism: Origins and Evolution.	June 2007	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Review
Bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon	April 2013	Miller, Erin; Smarick, Kathleen	Background Report
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options	January 2015	Pate, Amy	START Reports
Black Swans and Burstiness -- Countering Myths about Terrorism	December 2012	LaFree, Gary	Discussion Point
Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime-Type on Terrorist Attacks	October 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
August 2013 Security Threat to Americans Abroad	August 2013	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Apparent intended lethality: Toward a model of intent to harm in terrorist bomb attacks	April 2013	Wilson, Margaret	Journal Article
Anti-Muslim Terrorism in the United States	March 2022	Yates, Elizabeth; Miller, Erin; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports on Terrorism 2016	July 2017	Miller, Erin	START Reports
Analysis of Factors Related to Hate Crime and Terrorism	December 2012	Deloughery, Kathleen; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	START Reports
An Experimental Investigation of the Choice of Terror and Support for Taking Action	January 2008	Lemieux, Anthony; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor	Research Brief
An Evaluation of Displacement and Diffusion Effects on Eco-Terrorist Activities After Police Interventions	October 2017	Yang, Sue-Ming	Journal Article
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2016	November 2017	Miller, Erin; Jensen, Michael	Research Brief
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2015	September 2016	Miller, Erin; Jensen, Michael	Fact Sheet
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995 - 2017	September 2018	Miller, Erin; Jensen, Michael	Project Fact Sheet
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks	October 2015	Miller, Erin; Jensen, Michael	Fact Sheet
Alternative Scales of Extremism: The Relationship Between Scale and Predictive Measures of Extremism in the United States	January 2022	Boyd, Marcus A.; Henkin, Samuel D.	START Reports
Alienation, Religion, Economics and Politics: Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims	January 2009	McCauley, Clark	START Reports
Al-Shabaab Attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya	September 2013	Miller, Erin	Background Report
Across the Divide: Reflections of a Collaborative Class on Terrorism	May 2010	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
A Supply-Side View of Suicide Terrorism: A Cross-National Study	January 2008	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
A Preliminary Typology Mapping Pathways of Learning and Innovation by Modern Jihadist Groups	September 2016	Singh, Rashmi	Journal Article
A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike	July 2008	Smith, Brent	Journal Article
A First Look at Domestic and International Global Terrorism Events, 1970-1997	May 2006	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Conference Paper
A Community Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States	July 2016	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	Journal Article
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism	May 2022	Romm, Madeline	Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism	May 2022	Boyd, Marcus A.	Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation	May 2022	Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism Executive Summary	May 2022	Romm, Madeline; Boyd, Marcus A.; Henkin, Samuel D.	Research Brief
45 Years of Terrorism: Terrorist Attacks 1970-2015, Concentration and Intensity	July 2016	Kammerer, William	Map
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism	February 2015	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article

Title	Byline
White Paper: Perspectives on Terrorism and Responses to It	Jessica Rivinius
White Paper: A Multi-Layer Assessment of Terrorism in its Current and Future Manifestation
Violent extremism in the U.S.
Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt	Jessica Rivinius
Tricia Bacon discusses the history and future of alliances in the global terrorism community	Bianca Carrizal
Trends in terrorism in the U.S.: New report analyzes terrorist attack data 1970-2011
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research	Jessica Rivinius
The evolution of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)	Jessica Rivinius
Terrorist violence decreases worldwide in 2017, but remains historically high	Jessica Stark Rivinius
Terrorist attacks involving firearms more likely to be lethal than other types of attacks
Terrorist attack deaths increase in Iraq, the West, despite decrease worldwide	Jessica Rivinius
Terrorism studies minor now accepting applications	Kelly Kline
Terrorism Studies Minor information sessions
Terrorism studies graduate certificate application deadline is quickly approaching	Kelly Kline
Terrorism in Belgium and Western Europe; Attacks against Transportation Targets; Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014
Summer Opportunities for Undergrads at UMD
Summer Course Offerings
Study shows hate crimes more likely to occur after terrorist attacks
Student researches ties between terrorism and the Olympics	Emily Bonta
State Department contracts START to provide terrorism data and analysis
START's Clark McCauley to Serve as Editor of New Journal on Asymmetric Conflict
START Visiting Fellow featured in NY Times Magazine
START to offer Massive Open Online Course	Jessica Rivinius
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists	Emily Smith
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
START Response to Death of bin Laden
START researchers present work on transnational criminal organizations, terrorism and radiological/nuclear (RN) smuggling
START researchers present on the impact of climate change on terrorism	Erin Copland
START Researchers Participate in Session on Psychology of Terrorism
START researcher to publish book on suicide bombings	Claire Simon
START researcher invited to discuss terrorists' motivations	Claire Simon
START researcher explores how terrorism affects democracy, compares Turkey and US	Mary Beck
START researcher appears on panel on violent extremism in Southeast Asia
START research examines history of terrorism and the Olympic Games	Emily Bonta
START Releases Report on Public Opinion in Muslim Countries
START provides statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism
START provides 2013 statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism	Erin Miller, Travis Rudd
START Newsletter: Violent hate crimes and lone-actor terrorism; Cultural values and terrorism; Al-Shabaab
START Newsletter: Global terrorism increasing; GTD 2012 dataset released; New cyber research
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast	Jessica Rivinius
START launches online course on terror-crime nexus and CBRN	Beth Schwartz
START launches new training course on understanding and preventing radicalization to violence and violent extremism	Jessica Rivinius
START launches infographic series with War on the Rocks
START investigators present research at national conference
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START hosts virtual book talk on “Insurgent Terrorism”
START executive director to testify before Congress on the state of al-Qaida	Travis Rudd
START Director to testify before House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
START director to lecture on contrasting nature of terrorism	Emily Bonta
START Director Gary LaFree Comments on Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11
START director addresses common myths of terrorism	Emily Bonta
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Announces 2007-08 Fellowship Awards
Response to mischaracterization of the Hot Spots Report
Researcher Spotlight: Erik Dahl
Research Roundtable details the patterns of terrorism worldwide	Emily Bonta
Research improves understanding of geographic clustering of terrorist attacks	Laura Walker
Research Highlight: Al-Qa'ida-Related Terrorism - Violent Incidents and Foiled Plots
Research Brief: Terrorism Trends with a Focus on Energy and Mining
Proportion of terrorist attacks by religious and right-wing extremists on the rise in United States	Jessica Stark Rivinius
Preliminary findings on Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the US
Policing Terrorism	Emily Bonta
Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the U.S.	Maya Suero
Olympics and Terrorism
Now Hiring: Faculty Researcher/Post-Doc
New study examines terrorism in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand	Emily Smith
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines	Valerie Snaman
New START study examines communities where terrorists lived, planned and prepared
New START Project to Focus on Extremist Violence in U.S. Counties
New report examines relationship between county characteristics and incidents of terrorism
New project explores the relationship between belief and action of terrorist groups	Scott Jones
New editor will take on post for START-Oxford University Press book series	Erin Copland
New data reveals al-Qaida-linked groups among most active terrorist groups in the world
New brief analyzes terrorist groups in the United States
More plot participants, greater rate of attack success	Jessica Rivinius
Majority of 2013 terrorist attacks occurred in just a few countries	Jessica Rivinius
Lone-actors fueled by grievance, personal crises, weapons use	Mary Beck
LaFree Discusses Terrorism Myths and Realities
John Cohen's keynote address at START Annual Meeting	Catherine Llamido
Intern team authors peer-reviewed journal article on Hamas	Jessica Rivinius
Institute for Economics and Peace releases 2020 Global Terrorism Index	Erin Copland
Global terrorism decreases in 2018 as recent uptick in U.S. terrorist attacks was sustained	Jessica Rivinius
FTO Designation: Boko Haram and Ansaru
First-of-its-kind index ranks countries for impact of terrorism
Far-right Violence in the United States: 1990-2010
Fahey discusses political instability, state capacity and terrorism
Fact Sheet: American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks	Jessica Rivinius
Earn a graduate certificate through START
Discussion Point: Why isn't anyone calling this terrorism, still?	Anthony Lemieux
Discussion Point: The End of Radicalization?	John Horgan
Discussion Point: Black Swans and Burstiness—Countering Myths about Terrorism	Gary LaFree
DHS renews support for START terrorism research for next five years
Despite fewer attacks in Western world, global terrorism increasing
Designing Danger: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors	Jessica Rivinius
Database Spotlight: Update on Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the US	Samantha Goldman, J.R. Taylor
Database spotlight: Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States (PPT-US)	Samantha Goldman
Database Spotlight: Police Response to Terrorism - Lessons from the Israeli Police	Catherine Llamido
Database spotlight: Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)	Emily Bonta
Corn Husker contributes to START internship program with State Department	Erin O'Brien
Center of Excellence collaboration examines critical infrastructure	Jessica Rivinius
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the US
Black Swans and Burstiness: Oct. 4 Lecture
Assessing the likelihood of Hate Crime in wake of Boston Attacks
Applications Now Being Accepted from UMaryland Undergraduates for Terrorism Studies Minor Program
Al-Qaida's fatal terrorism under Osama bin Laden
A closer look at the 2,600 terrorist attacks in US, 1970-2012
2014 GTD data available now	Jessica Rivinius
2011-2012 Background Report Undergraduate Terrorism Analysis Training (UTAT) Program Application Deadline Extended
*Background on Terrorism and Public Opinion in Indonesia*
*Background Info: Moscow Subway Bombing*
"Peace and Conflict" Features Research from START Investigators

Title	Job Title	Institution
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York
Tyler A. Clark	Data Scientist, Doctoral Student	University of Maryland
Sheehan Kane	Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Samuel D. Henkin	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Salma Bouziani	Project Manager/Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Michelle Jacome	Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank
Michael Jensen	Senior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Max Erdemandi	Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition	University of Maryland
Marcus A. Boyd	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START Director of Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Laura Dugan	Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology	The Ohio State University
Joseph Oudin	Data Collection Manager Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Jeff Gruenewald	Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas	University of Arkansas
Jacob Loewner	Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman	Associate Professor, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Erin Miller	GTD Program Manager, START	University of Maryland
Elena Akers	Researcher/Junior Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Devin Ellis	Researcher, ARLIS	University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf	Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Benjamin Evans	Faculty Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database, START	University of Maryland
Barnett S. Koven	Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Adam Martin	Software Developer, Vexterra Group