The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recently invited William Braniff, executive director of START, to present for its International Intelligence Fellows Program course this month about “Empirical approaches to terrorism and counterterrorism.” The cohort of international fellows included 23 officials from 17 countries.
For his presentation, Braniff drew on numerous START projects and databases including: Big, Allied and Dangerous (BAAD), Government Actions in a Terror Environment (GATE), Global Terrorism Database (GTD), Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS), U.S. Attitudes Towards Terrorism and Counterterrorism and Comparing Failed, Foiled, Completed and Successful Terrorist Attacks, as well as work from a project spearheaded by START’s GIS team with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on foreign fighter flows between Europe and Iraq/Syria.