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Violence Adoption and Desistance

Title Investigators Project Period
Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De-Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of U.S.-Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Coalition Building for CVE and Community Resilience William Braniff -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff -
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin -
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism? Mark Lichbach -
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam Clark McCauley, Emmanuel Karagiannis -
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani -
Radicalization of Momin Khawaja Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko -
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer -
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence Risa Brooks -
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom Clark McCauley -
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal -
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia Barnett S. Koven -
Understanding Desistance from Terrorism Clark McCauley -
Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling H. Brinton Milward, Ronald Breiger -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
Blockade of Peace: Corruption and Crime 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Desistance from Terrorism: What Can We Learn from Criminology? 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Deterring and Preventing Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Digital Participation Roles of the Global Jihad: Social Media’s Role in Bringing Together Vulnerable Individuals and VEO Content 2018-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Disengagement from Ideologically-Based and Violent Organizations: A Systematic Review of the Literature 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Examining Extrajudicial Killings: Discriminant Analyses of Human Rights’ Violations 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Examining the Effect of Repressive and Conciliatory Government Actions on Terrorism Activity in Israel 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Group Desistance from Terrorism: A Dynamic Perspective 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Radical Islamic Group that Remains Nonviolent 2006-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How effective are our 'better angels'? Assessing country-level declines in homicide since 1950 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Nonviolent Action in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) dataset 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Investigating the Applicability of Situational Crime Prevention to the Public Mass Violence Context 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Invisible Empire of Hate: Gender Differences in the Ku Klux Klan's Online Justifications for Violence 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Is Antifa a Terrorist Group? 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Losing your Audience: Desistance from Terrorism in Egypt after Luxor 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lowest of the Low: Why Some Countries Suffer Terrorist Attacks against Schools 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention? 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Migration, Crime, and Victimization 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Report
Organizational and Institutional Approaches: Social Movement Studies Perspectives on Political Violence 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Organizational-Level Characteristics in Right-Wing Extremist Groups in the United States Over Time 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle 2007-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Mobilization and Institutions 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Protestors, Terrorists or Something Else? How to Think about Dissident Groups 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radicalization: A Relational Perspective 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rebel Group Attrition and Reversion to Violence: Micro-Level Evidence from Syria 2020-01-01T12:00:00 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 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Secure in their Beliefs: Personal Security, the Quest for Personal Significance, and the Psychology of Extremism 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Sudden Desistance from Terrorism: The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Comandos of the Armenian Genocide 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Target-Oriented Utility Theory for Modeling the Deterrent Effects of Counterterrorism 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Terrorist Disengagement and De-radicalisation 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Puzzle of Nonviolence in Western Sahara 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual from Radical Opinion to Radical Action 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Violence in Activism: Instigating Factors and Thresholds Breached 2010-01-01T12:00:00 Book
When Women Fight: Unemployment, Territorial Control and the Prevalence of Female Combatants in Insurgent Organizations 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Title Job Title Institution
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
person-default Devin Ellis Researcher, ARLIS University of Maryland
Miller Erin Erin Miller Former GTD Program Manager, START University of Maryland
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
 Chapman University
Robert lamb Robert D. Lamb ICONS Director and Associate Research Scientist University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De-Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of U.S.-Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
Coalition Building for CVE and Community Resilience
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism?
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam
IVEO IVEO Knowledge Matrix Go
MAROB Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) Middle East, 1980-2004 Go
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism
Radicalization of Momin Khawaja
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia
Understanding Desistance from Terrorism
Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling