Violence Adoption and Desistance

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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
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 September, 2020
Coalition Building for CVE and Community Resilience	William Braniff	October, 2015 to September, 2018
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling	H. Brinton Milward, Ronald Breiger	July, 2015 to December, 2017
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns	Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	July, 2014 to December, 2017
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)	Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree	January, 2013 to December, 2016
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer	July, 2012 to December, 2016
Radicalization of Momin Khawaja	Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko	July, 2013 to June, 2015
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence	Risa Brooks	July, 2012 to December, 2013
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal	June, 2008 to December, 2011
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism?	Mark Lichbach	June, 2008 to August, 2011
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom	Clark McCauley	June, 2008 to May, 2011
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism	Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani	June, 2008 to December, 2009
Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De-Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of U.S.-Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings		June, 2008 to June, 2009
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam	Clark McCauley, Emmanuel Karagiannis	June, 2005 to June, 2009
Understanding Desistance from Terrorism	Clark McCauley	May, 2005 to May, 2009

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Blockade of Peace: Corruption and Crime	June 2017	Panyan, Karina	Journal Article
Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians	August 2018	Phillips, Brian; Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa	July 2013	Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Deterring and Preventing Terrorism	April 2018	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Digital Participation Roles of the Global Jihad: Social Media’s Role in Bringing Together Vulnerable Individuals and VEO Content	March 2018	Ligon, Gina Scott	White Paper
Disengagement from Ideologically-Based and Violent Organizations: A Systematic Review of the Literature	October 2016	Ligon, Gina Scott; Simi, Peter	Journal Article
Examining the Effect of Repressive and Conciliatory Government Actions on Terrorism Activity in Israel	May 2015	Parkin, William	Journal Article
Group Desistance from Terrorism: A Dynamic Perspective	November 2009	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
How effective are our 'better angels'? Assessing country-level declines in homicide since 1950	July 2015	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Invisible Empire of Hate: Gender Differences in the Ku Klux Klan's Online Justifications for Violence	September 2018	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Is Antifa a Terrorist Group?	May 2018	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention?	May 2015	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings	April 2018	Chenoweth, Erica	Report
Organizational-Level Characteristics in Right-Wing Extremist Groups in the United States Over Time	February 2016	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle	September 2007	Mainuddin, Rolin	Journal Article
Political Mobilization and Institutions	April 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Potential implications of the attempted coup d’etat and counter-coup in Turkey for domestic politics and regional security	October 2016	McGrath, Erin	Discussion Point
Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism	April 2018	Atwell Seate, Anita; Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Journal Article
Radicalization: A Relational Perspective	May 2018	della Porta, Donatella	Journal Article
Routine Activities and Right-Wing Extremists: An Empirical Comparison of the Victims of Ideologically Motivated and Non-Ideologically Motivated Homicides Committed by American Far-Rightists	August 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Parkin, William	Journal Article
Secure in their Beliefs: Personal Security, the Quest for Personal Significance, and the Psychology of Extremism	April 2015	Kruglanski, Arie	Book Chapter
Target-Oriented Utility Theory for Modeling the Deterrent Effects of Counterterrorism	November 2014	Bier, Vicki	Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017	October 2018	Miller, Erin	Project Fact Sheet
Terrorist Disengagement and De-radicalisation	April 2018	Braddock, Kurt	Book Chapter
Terrorist Rehabilitation: Genesis, Genealogy and Likely Future	June 2015		Book Chapter
The Puzzle of Nonviolence in Western Sahara	May 2016	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual from Radical Opinion to Radical Action	January 2014	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
Turning Away from Terrorism: Lessons from Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology	September 2014	Horgan, John	Journal Article
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
Violence in Activism: Instigating Factors and Thresholds Breached	January 2010	Hodwitz, Omi	Book
Walking Away: The Disengagement and De-radicalization of a Violent Right-Wing Extremist	March 2016	Horgan, John	Journal Article
Why Violence Abates: Imposed and Elective Declines in Terrorism Attacks	March 2015		Journal Article

Title	Byline
START's Clark McCauley to Serve as Editor of New Journal on Asymmetric Conflict
START Visiting Fellow featured in NYTimes Magazine
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center

Title	Job Title	Institution
Barnett S. Koven	Senior Researcher, START Affiliated Scholar, The Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University	University of Maryland
Daniel Smith	Senior Research Specialist, START	University of Maryland
David C. Pyrooz	Assistant Professor, University of Colorado - Boulder	University of Colorado
Devin Ellis	Policy & Research Program Director, ICONS Project	University of Maryland
Elizabeth Yates	Faculty Specialist, START	University of Maryland
Erica Chenoweth	Associate Professor of International Studies	University of Denver
Erin Miller	GTD Program Manager, START	University of Maryland
Jeremy Backstrom	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations	Widener University
John Stevenson	Principal Research Scientist, NSI, Inc.	None
Omi Hodwitz	Assistant Professor	University of Idaho
Peter Krause	Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College Research Affiliate, MIT Security Studies Program	Boston College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Simi	Associate Professor, Chapman University Director, Earl Babbie Research Center	Chapman University
Scott H. Decker	Foundation Professor	Arizona State University
Shawn Flanigan	Professor of Public Affairs	San Diego State University
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York