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START Reports

Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
Alienation, Religion, Economics and Politics: Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims 2009-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Alternative Scales of Extremism: The Relationship Between Scale and Predictive Measures of Extremism in the United States 2022-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa 2016-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
An Overview of Bombing and Arson Attacks by Environmental and Animal Rights Extremists in the United States, 1995-2010 2013-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Analysis of Factors Related to Hate Crime and Terrorism 2012-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports on Terrorism 2016 2017-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Apparent Intended Lethality: Toward a Behavioral Model of Intention to Harm in Single Issue Bombing Campaigns 2010-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Assessing the Effectiveness of Current De‐Radicalization Initiatives and Identifying Implications for the Development of U.S.‐Based Initiatives in Multiple Settings 2009-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting against Dangerous Entrants 2012-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St.Paul 2012-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Catch Them Coming and Going: Probabilistic Pathway Projection to Counter Foreign Fighters 2016-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Characteristics of Communities where American Terrorists, Lived, Planned, and Conducted their Attacks 2011-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-10-09T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Conceptualization of Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2024-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Community Policing to Counter Violent Extremism: A Process Evaluation in Los Angeles 2017-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Community‐Level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Methods Task Force 2010-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Countering Ecoterrorism in the United States: The Case of 'Operation Backfire' 2012-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Countermeasures against Extremism and Terrorism Database: Data Status and Final Findings 2012-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Country Reports on Terrorism 2013: Annex of Statistical Information 2014-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
County-level Correlates of Terrorism in the United States, 1990 to 2010 2013-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Cues to Catching Deception in Interviews: A Brief Overview 2012-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Debates among Salafi Muslims about use of violence 2017-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Colombia, 2002-present 2016-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Developing An Empirical Understanding of Improvised Explosive Devices: A Social and Behavioral Science Perspective 2009-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Development and Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms and Models of Relevance to START Databases 2016-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2020-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Effects and Effectiveness of Law Enforcement Intelligence Measures to Counter Homegrown Terrorism: A Case Study on the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) 2012-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) 2016-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Escalation Management in the Gray Zone 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Examining the Relationship between General Social Survey (GSS) Measures and Far-Right Ideological Violence: A County-Level Analysis 2012-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Examining the Relationship between the Presence of Hate Groups and the Presence of Violent Far-Right Perpetrators at the County Level 2012-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Executive Summary: Understanding Risk Communication Best Practices and Theory 2012-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
From Extremist to Terrorist: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs 2013-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Geospatial Patterns of Precursor Behavior among Terrorists 2011-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Global Terrorism Database: Real-time Data Collection Pilot Evaluation 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 2023-01-23T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 — The Military Lever of Power 2024-03-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—Legal Approaches 2023-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power 2023-07-25T12:00:00 START Reports
Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States,1970 to 2008 2012-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Human and Social Forces in the Spread of the IED Threat: Innovation, Diffusion and Adaptation 2009-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Influence-to-Action Model and Campaign/Narrative Impact Assessment Tool 2022-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Influence-to-Action Model Development: A Tool to Assess the Impact of Foreign Influence Operations 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Innovative Algorithm and Database Development Relevant to Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Efforts at START 2014-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Integrated United States Security Database (IUSSD): Data on the Terrorist Attacks in the United States Homeland, 1970 to 2011 2012-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Lessons Learned from Mental Health and Education: Identifying Best Practices for Addressing Violent Extremism 2015-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Living in America as a Muslim after 9/11: Poll Trends 2001‐2007 2009-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Momin Khawaja: Mechanisms of Radicalization 2016-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Monitor and Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on Public Safety: Literature Review 2021-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Origin-group differences in the 2007 and 2011 Pew Polls of U.S. Muslims: Reactions to the War on Terrorism 2017-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Patterns of Intervention in Federal Terrorism Cases 2011-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Patterns of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2013 2014-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Patterns of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2014 2016-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Potential for radicalization amongst Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: Risks, factors, and implications 2018-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States (PPT‐US): Data Collection and Descriptive Analysis 2011-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Public-Private Partnerships to Counter Violent Extremism: Field Principles for Action 2016-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
QAnon Crimes in the United States: A Comprehensive Dataset Codebook 2021-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Quantifying Gray Zone Conflict Codebook 2017-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Quantifying Gray Zone Conflict: (De-)escalatory Trends in Gray Zone Conflicts in Colombia, Libya and Ukraine 2017-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Radicalization in the Ranks 2022-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
RCPGP Warning System Integration Research Project Final Report 2010-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Ethnic Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of American Muslims-Final Report 2010-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Recruitment and Radicalization among U.S. Far-Right Terrorists 2016-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Report: Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Libya, 2014-Present 2016-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Report: U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism Before and After the April 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings 2013-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Risk Communication Training: Research Findings and Recommendations for Training Development 2013-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Russian Clients and Global Foreign Policy Strategy: Evidence from Foreign Military Sales 2015-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Social Media Use during Disasters: A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps 2012-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Statistical Analysis of Event Data Concerning Boko Haram in Nigeria (2009-2013) 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Surveying CVE Metrics in Prevention, Disengagement and De-Radicalization Programs 2016-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Surveying the Literature on Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, and Countering Violent Extremism: A Summary Report with a Focus on Africa 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Syria Barometer Survey: Opinions about War in Syria and about Radical Action 2016-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Terrorist Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure in the United States, 1970-2015 2016-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Twitter 2024-05-27T12:00:00 START Reports
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Weibo and Telegram 2024-09-30T12:00:00 START Reports
The Influence of Nationalism on Russian Security Policy: The Logics of (Dis)-Order and Terrorism in the Shift from Nation-State to Nation-Civilization 2015-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
The Jihadi Industry: Assessing the Organizational, Leadership, and Cyber Profiles 2017-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
The Organizational Dynamics of Far-Right Hate Groups in the United States: Comparing Violent to Non-Violent Organizations 2011-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Twenty-Five Years of Ideological Homicide Victimization in the United States of America 2016-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Arms Transfers to Ukraine: Impact Assessment 2023-01-12T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism 2013-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Military Training Assistance to Ukraine 2023-02-27T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Muslim Opinion Over Time: Final Report 2016-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Muslim Opinions about ISIS, the Syrian Conflict and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 2017-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Muslims with Radical Opinions Feel More Alienated and Depressed 2017-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Polls: Public Opinion and Right‐Wing Extremism 2010-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Law Enforcement Intelligence Processes 2014-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Risk Communication Best Practices: A Guide for Emergency Managers and Communicators 2012-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Risk Communication Theory: A Guide for Emergency Managers and Communicators 2012-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Update on Geospatial Patterns of Antecedent Behavior among Perpetrators in the American Terrorism Study (ATS) 2013-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Update on Geospatial Patterns of Precursor Behavior among Terrorists 2012-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative: Identifying Suspicious Activities from the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) and the American Terrorism Study (ATS) 2015-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Violence Perpetrated by Supporters of Al-Qa’ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM): Fatal Attacks and Violent Plots in the United States 2014-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
When Will Russia Use Force in Support of Foreign Policy Objectives? Comparative Evidence from the Ukrainian (2014) and Georgia (2008) Crises 2016-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports