A consortium of researchers dedicated to improving the understanding of the human causes and consequences of terrorism

Terrorism and Society

Title Investigators Project Period
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
Al-Qa'ida Transcript Coding Project Deborah Cai -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses James Pennebaker -
Belief Formation and Political Engagement: A Panel Study of the Dynamics of Change in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey Mansoor Moaddel -
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting Against Dangerous Entrants Brent Smith, Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Kathleen Smarick -
Bridging Religious Communities and Technology Providers to Counter Narratives of Violent Extremism Alejandro Beutel, Peter Weinberger -
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul Stevan Weine -
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Communicating Risk of Mass Casualty Terrorism in Diverse Communities Elaine Vaughan -
Community Field Studies and Analyses of Preparedness Networks Kathleen Tierney -
Community-level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Measurement Workshop Gary LaFree, Kathleen Smarick, Shira Fishman -
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin Barnett S. Koven -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
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 -
Drivers of Conflict and Convergence in China-U.S. Relations in a Global Context Amy Pate, John Stevenson -
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak
Family and Community Capacities among US Minorities: a Key to Preventing Violent Extremism Stevan Weine -
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West Peter Neumann -
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance Marcus A. Boyd -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Homegrown Radicalization and the Role of Social Networks and Social Inclusiveness in the United States Paul Harwood -
Insider Threat Program Katy Lindquist, Devin Ellis, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D., Michael Jensen -
International Survey Capability Steven Kull -
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction Gina Scott Ligon
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand -
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat Gary LaFree, William Braniff, Katherine Worboys Izsak -
Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa's Lebanese Muslim Community Bidisha Biswas, Christian Leuprecht, Clark McCauley -
Mobilization For and Against Terrorism in the Muslim World Clark McCauley, Mansoor Moaddel, Mohammed Hafez -
Modeling and Simulation of Public Response to Threat and Attacks Dennis Mileti -
Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
National Household Survey Dennis Mileti, Linda Bourque -
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization Johanna Birnir, Nil Satana -
Opportunities for Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Extremism and Recruitment Brandon Behlendorf -
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani -
Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science, and GIS Susan Cutter -
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism Gary LaFree -
Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism Fran Norris -
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States Kathleen Smarick -
Radicalization in the Ranks Michael Jensen, Sheehan Kane -
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups Shawn Flanigan -
Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations Clark McCauley -
Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space Susan Cutter
Social Identity and Perceptions of Counterterrorism Demis Glasford -
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller -
START-Oxford University Press Book Series Laura Dugan, Anthony Lemieux, Gary Ackerman, Gary LaFree -
State Response and Terrorist Activity Clark McCauley -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
Terrorism and Violence in Colombia Enrique Arias -
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence Risa Brooks -
Terrorist Strategies and Tactics: When Do Terrorists Decide to Attack the US? Martha Crenshaw -
The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia Douglas M. McLeod -
The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America Johanna Birnir -
Tracking Attitudes within American Subculture Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko -
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom Clark McCauley -
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States Clark McCauley -
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia Barnett S. Koven -
U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism Gary LaFree -
Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT) Gary Ackerman, Victor Asal -
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset Gina Scott Ligon -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
'Defensive Liberal Wars’: The Global War on Terror and the Return of Illiberalism in American Foreign Policy 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
'Keep Wicked Calm and Carry the Hell On': Boston, Terrorism and the Rhetorical Power of Resilience 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
‘Nondemocratic Islamists’ and Support for ISIS in the Arab World 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
"Oxygen of Publicity" and "Lifeblood of Liberty" Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-first Century 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
#JESUISPARIS?: An Appeal to Hypocrisy and Justifications for Mass Casualty Violence 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
2011 Research review 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Research Review
45 Years of Terrorism: Terrorist Attacks 1970-2015, Concentration and Intensity 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Map
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism 2022-05-20T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Community Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Comparison of Political Violence by Left-wing, Right-wing and Islamist Extremists in the United States and the World 2022-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Comprehensive Application of Rational Choice Theory: How Costs Imposed by, and Benefits Derived from, the U.S. Federal Government Affect Incidents Perpetrated by the Radical Eco-Movement 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A First Look at Domestic and International Global Terrorism Events, 1970-1997 2006-05-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
A Meta-analysis of Intervention Effects on Depression and/or Anxiety in Youth Exposed to Political Violence or Natural Disasters 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Situated Comparison of Suicide and Non-Suicide Terrorist Plots and Homicides in the United States, 1990-2014 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
A Study of Selected Ethnic Affiliations in the Development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Psychopathology After a Terrorist Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Supply-Side View of Suicide Terrorism: A Cross-National Study 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Al-Qaida and its Associated Movement vs. the Islamic State and its Associated Movement 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Presentation
A Three-Stage Evacuation Decision-Making and Behavior Model for the Onset of an Attack 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Welcome Antidote 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
Across the Divide: Reflections of a Collaborative Class on Terrorism 2010-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Addressing the Myths of Terrorism in America 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Al-Qa'ida - Related Terrorism: Violent Incidents and Foiled Plots 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Al-Shabaab Attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Alienation, Religion, Economics and Politics: Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims 2009-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
All Terrorism is Local: Resources, Nested Institutions, and Governance for Urban Homeland Security in the American Federal System 2007-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995 - 2017 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2015 2016-09-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2016 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2019 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
American Jihadi Terrorism: A Comparison of Homicides and Unsuccessful Plots 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
American Terrorism and Extremist Crime Data Sources and Selectivity Bias: An Investigation Focusing on Homicide Events Committed by Far Right Extremists 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Examination of the Effect of Perceived Risk on Preparedness Behavior 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Exploratory Analysis of the Characteristics of Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks 2020-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Analyzing Catastrophic Terrorist Events with Applications to the Food Industry 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Another Look at Jujitsu Politics 2016-09-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Anthrax in Transit: Practical Experience and Intellectual Exchange 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Anti-Muslim Terrorism in the United States 2022-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Apologia for Suicide: Martyrdom in Contemporary Jihadist Discourse 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Apparent Intended Lethality: Toward a Behavioral Model of Intention to Harm in Single Issue Bombing Campaigns 2010-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Apparent intended lethality: Toward a model of intent to harm in terrorist bomb attacks 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Application of Emerging-State Actor Theory: Analysis of Intervention and Containment Policies 2018-05-20T12:00:00 Journal Article
Applying an Organizational Framework to Examine Jihadi Organizations as an Industry 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Armed Assault at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Assessing Terrorist Risks: Developing an Algorithm-Based Model for Law Enforcement 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
August 2013 Security Threat to Americans Abroad 2013-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime-Type on Terrorist Attacks 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Be Careful What You Ask For: 10 Years at START 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Beyond al-Qa'ida 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Beyond Violent Extremism: A 3N Perspective of Inceldom 2023-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Black Swans and Burstiness -- Countering Myths about Terrorism 2012-12-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Book Review of S.A. Wright, Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Book Review: Lutz, J. M., & Lutz, B. J. (2005). Terrorism: Origins and Evolution. 2007-06-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting against Dangerous Entrants 2012-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Bruce Hoffman and Fernando Reinares (Eds.): The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Building Disaster Resilience: Steps Toward Sustainability 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St.Paul 2012-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Building Terrorism from Social Ties: The Dark Side of Social Capital 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State's Financial Fortunes 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Report
Can taking down websites really stop terrorists and hate groups? 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan, by David B. Edwards 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Changing Organizational Structures of Jihadist Networks in the Netherlands 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Characteristics of Communities where American Terrorists, Lived, Planned, and Conducted their Attacks 2011-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Characteristics of Lone-Wolf Violent Offenders: a Comparison of Assassins and School Attackers 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Charity as Resistance: Connections Between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror 2006-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Children of Terrorism Survivors: Physiological Reactions Seven Years following a Terrorist Incident 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Circles Drawing Toward High Risk Activism: The Use of Usroh and Halaqa in Islamist Radical Movements 2008-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Climate Change and Security 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2023-04-17T12:00:00 Research Brief
Collaborative Online International Learning: The Example of a Course in the Psychology of Terrorism in the United States and Iran 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Commitment and Extremism: A Goal Systemic Analysis 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Commitment to Extremist Ideology: Using Factor Analysis to Move Beyond Binary Measures of Extremism 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Community and Family Approaches to Combating the Radicalization and Recruitment of Somali-American Youth and Young Adults: A Psychosocial Perspective 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing Extremist Perpetrators of Suicide and Non-suicide Attacks in the U.S. 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism 2023-08-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing Violent Extremism and Terrorism to Other Forms of Targeted Violence 2024-03-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Competing with Great Powers Through Competitive Strategy and Unconventional Warfare 2021-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Conceptualizing and Measuring Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Conducting Terrorism Fieldwork on a Shoe-String Budget: Researching Suicide Terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Configuring Legitmacy: A Framework fo Legitimation in Armed Conflict 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Connecting Adversarial and Environmental Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-04-24T12:00:00 Research Brief
Consenting to a Child's Decision to Join a Jihad: Insights from a Survey of Militant Families in Pakistan 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Constructing Terrorism: From Fear and Coercion to Anger and Jujitsu Politics 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Report
Constructing the Field of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Contingencies of Violent Radicalization: The Terror Contagion Simulation 2021-12-20T12:00:00 Journal Article
Counter-Terrorism in India: An Ad Hoc Response to an Enduring and Variable Threat 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Countering Domestic Terrorism: Examining the Evolving Threat 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Congressional Testimony
Countering Myths about Terrorism: Some Lessons Learned from the Global Terrorism Database 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Counterterrorism in Retrospect: Chronicle of a War Foretold 2005-07-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Counterterrorism Strategies and Democracy: Lessons for the US from the (Unfortunate) Example of Turkey 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
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
County-level Correlates of Terrorism in the United States, 1990-2010 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminal Justice & Military Deaths at the Hands of Extremists 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cross-Classified Multilevel Models: An Application to the Criminal Case Processing of Indicted Terrorists 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cross-National Patterns of Terrorism: Comparing Trajectories for Total, Attributed and Fatal Attacks, 1970-2006 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Data-Driven System Identification of the Social Network Dynamics in Online Postings of an Extremist Group 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Deadlier in the U.S.? On Lone Wolves, Terrorist Groups, and Attack Lethality 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Decisions in disaster recovery operations 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Defender–Attacker Games with Asymmetric Player Utilities 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism 2009-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democracy, Inclusion and Failure in Counterinsurgency 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Democratic Skepticism and Support for Terrorism in the Palestinian Territories 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Determining Extremist Organizations' Likelihood of Conducting Cyber Attacks 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Disasters: A Sociological Approach 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Discovery Communications Building Hostage-Taking 2010-09-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship After the Charlie Hebdo Attacks 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Discussion Point: Communities on the Front Lines Against Terrorism 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us from Terrorism? 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Direct Survivors of Terrorism Remaining in the Disaster Community Show Better Long-Term Outcome than Survivors Who Relocate? 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Machines Replicate Humans? Toward a Unified Understanding of Radicalizing Content on the Open Social Web 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Does Legitimacy Matter? Attitudes Towards Anti-American Violence in Eqypt, Morcco, and Indonesia 2012-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Domestic Terrorism and Digital Media: Planning in Cyberspace 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Don't Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Dynamic Forecasting Conditional Probability of Bombing Attacks Based on Time-Series and Intervention Analysis 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Early Detection of Terrorism Outbreaks Using Prospective Space–Time Scan Statistics 2012-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Economic Development, Poorly Managed Political Conflict and Terrorism in India 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Efficacy of Counterterrorism Approaches: Examining Northern Ireland 2006-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Encouraging and Assessing the Validity of Answers to Questions about Radicalization: The Use of Meta-opinions 2018-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
ETA Ceasefires by the Numbers 2011-10-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Ethical Conduct of Research in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Ethnic Groups, Political Exclusion and Domestic Terrorism 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Ethnicity and Altruism after Violence: The Contact Hypothesis in Kosovo 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Europe's Jihadist Dilemma 2006-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Evolution of Global Terrorism: The Growing Lethality of Attacks 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Examining Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks Performed by Far-Left Groups 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Examining the Effect of Repressive and Conciliatory Government Actions on Terrorism Activity in Israel 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Examining the Online Expression of Ideology among Far-Right Extremist Forum Users 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Exploring Gun Ownership as a Social Identity to Understanding the Perceived Media Influence of the Virginia Tech News Coverage on Attitudes toward Gun Control Policy 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Exploring the Subculture of Ideologically Motivated Cyber-Attackers 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment 2006-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Extremist Violence from the Fatherland to the Homeland: A Comparison of Far-right Homicide in Germany and the United States 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extremists of a Feather Flock Together? Community Structure and Patterns of Homophily in the US Islamist Co-Offending Network 2023-05-13T12:00:00 White Paper
Extremists of a feather flock together? Community structures, transitivity, and patterns of homophily in the US Islamist co-offending network 2024-06-05T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fact Sheet: Global Terrorism in 2018 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Far-Right and Jihadi Terrorism within the United States: From September 11th to January 6th 2023-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Far-Right Fatal Ideological Violence against Religious Institutions and Individuals in the United States: 1990-2018 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Far-Right Lone Wolf Homicides in the United States 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Far-right Violence in the United States: 1990-2013 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Fear and Anger Elicited by Terrorist Attack: The Power of Jujitsu Politics 2016-03-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Financial Activities Linked to Persons from Sweden and Denmark who Joined Terrorist Groups in Syria and Iraq During the Period 2013-2016 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Report
Forecasting the Use of Violence by Ethno–Political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence, V. S. Subrahmanian, ed. 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
From Extremist to Terrorist: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs 2013-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Games Rivals Play: International Terrorism in Rivalries 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Gender Ideologies and Forms of Contentious Mobilization in the Middle East 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Generating Terrorism Event Databases: Results from the Global Terrorism Database, 1970 to 2008 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Geographical Approaches in the Study of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance 2017-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Geospatial Patterns of Precursor Behavior among Terrorists 2011-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Global Terrorism Database: Real-time Data Collection Pilot Evaluation 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Global Terrorism in 2017 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Global Terrorism in 2018 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Global Terrorism Overview: Terrorism in 2019 2020-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Grievance, Social Dominance Orientation, and Authoritarianism in the Choice and Justification of Terror Versus Protest 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Group Desistance from Terrorism: A Dynamic Perspective 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Guest Editorial: Processes of Radicalization and De-Radicalization 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Have Motivations for Terrorism Changed? 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2012, Concentation and Intensity 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2013, Concentation and Intensity 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2014, Concentation and Intensity 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2015, Concentation and Intensity 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2016, Concentation and Intensity 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Map
Heat Map: Global Terrorism Database, Terrorist Attacks 2017, Concentation and Intensity 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Map
Historical Perspective and Future Directions in Research on Psychiatric Consequences of Terrorism and Other Disasters 2006-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Hizballah as a Social Movement Organization: A Framing Approach 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Homegrown Terrorism in the United States 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States,1970 to 2008 2012-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
How Community Ties Influence Terrorist Targeting of Civilians 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? 2004-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
How Many Suicide Terrorists are Suicidal? 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How the Replication Debate Applies to Terrorism Studies 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
How Women Engage Homegrown Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Identifying Cross-National Global Terrorist Hot Spots 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Ideological Motivations of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2016 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
In the Eye of the Storm: An Update: Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats during Covid-19 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Report
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Incendiary Devices in Packages at Maryland Government Buildings 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism? 2008-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
India's Experience with Terrorism 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Infographic: Temporal Sequencing, Incident Sophistication, and Terrorist Outcomes 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Information, Trust, and Power: The Impact of Conflict Histories, Policy Regimes, and Political Institutions on Terrorism 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Inspire Magazine: A Critical Analysis of its Significance and Potential Impact Through the Lens of the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Model 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Instruments and Arrangements against Online Terrorism Relating to International Cooperation 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
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
Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Intelligence-led policing and forces of organisational change in the USA 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Interfaith Programs on College Campuses: Lessons Learned 2011-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Internally Displaced Populations and Suicide Terrorism 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing 'Political Resilience' 2012-08-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Global Terrorism Database 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research 2015-05-01T12:00:00 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 all Jihad Local? Transnational Contention and Political Violence in Somalia 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter? 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Is Viewing Mass Trauma Television Coverage Associated With Trauma Reactions in Adults and Youth? A Meta‐Analytic Review 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
ISIS in Iraq: The Social and Psychological Foundations of Terror 2023-05-18T12:00:00 Book
ISIS: Its History, Ideology, and Psychology 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Jihadist Terrorist Plots in the United States 2017-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Jihadists and WMD: a re-evaluation of the future threat 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Joining Al Qaeda: Jihadist Recruitment in Europe 2008-12-01T12:00:00 Book
Key Factors in Crisis Escalation 2024-03-19T12:00:00 Journal Article
Know Thy Enemy: Education About Terrorism Improves Social Attitudes Toward Terrorists 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Knowing is Half the Battle: How Education Decreases the Fear of Terrorism 2022-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Legislation Specifically Targeting the Use of the Internet to Recruit Terrorists 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Living in America as a Muslim after 9/11: Poll Trends 2001‐2007 2009-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Local Approaches to Counterterrorism: The New York Police Department Model 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Motivates Them? 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lone-Offender Terrorists 2013-07-01T12:00:00 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
Lying About Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Making the Wrong Connection: The Determinants of Terrorist Targeting of Airplanes and Airports 2010-02-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Marvel’s Civil War: An Allegory of September 11 in the American Civil War Framework 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mass Casualty Explosives Attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Mass-Fatality, Coordinated Attacks Worldwide, and Terrorism in France 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Measurement Issues in the Study of Terrorism: Introducing the Special Issue 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Measuring al-Qaeda: The Metrics of Terror 2012-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Measuring Tactical Innovation in Terrorist Attacks 2019-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Terrorist Incidents: A Historical Perspective 2018-02-01T12:00:00 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
Military Experience, Identity Discrepancies, and Far Right Terrorism: An Exploratory Analysis 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mismeasuring Militias: Limitations of Advocacy Group Data and of State-Level Studies of Paramilitary Groups 2006-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Modalities of National Sovereignty: Territorial Nationalism versus Islamic Fundamentalism in Muslim-Majority Countries 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Report
Monolithic Religious Markets, Fragmented State Structures, and Islamic Fundamentalism Among Iranians and the Middle East and North Africa 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
N-stage Security Screening Strategies in the Face of Strategic Applicants 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
New vs. Old Terrorism: A Critical Appraisal 2007-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
NGO Intervention in Jihadist Conflicts: A Closer Look at Afghanistan and Somalia 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
NGO Interventions: Influences on Terrorist Activity 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Nonprofit Service Provision by Insurgent Organizations: The Cases of Hizballah and the Tamil Tigers 2008-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Not Your Father's Intelligence Failure: Why the Intelligence Community Failed to Anticipate the Rise of ISIS 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Oil and Terrorism: An Investigation of Mediators 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Old and New Terrorism 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Book
On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers 2007-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing 2010-04-01T12:00:00 Background Report
On the Fifth Anniversary of the 7/7 London Transit Attack 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
One Cheer for Classical Realism, or Toward a Power Politics of Religion 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Opening Yourself Up: The Role of External and Internal Transparency in Terrorism Attacks 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
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
Overview: Terrorism in 2014 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Overview: Terrorism in 2016 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Package Bombs on Cargo Planes 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Party of Islamic liberation in the 'Stans. Review of Emmanuel Karagiannis, 'Political Islam in Central Asia' 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Peace and Conflict 2010 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Perceived Media Influence, Mental Illness, and Responses to News Coverage of a Mass Shooting 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments 2005-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
PIRUS: Comparing Violent and Non-Violent Offenders 2023-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
PIRUS: Mass Casualty Extremist Offenders with U.S. Military Backgrounds 2023-06-07T12:00:00 Research Brief
Policing terrorism and police–community relations: views of the Arab minority in Israel 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Explanations 2005-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Islam in the Former Soviet Union: Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan Compared 2010-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Paranoia Versus Political Realism: On Distinguishing between Bogus 'Conspiracy Theories' and Genuine Conspiratorial Politics 2007-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Poverty, Minority Economic Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism 2011-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Predictors of Support for Anti-Western Terrorism 2006-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Preventing and Treating Radicalization: A Two Volume Review 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) 2023-03-09T12:00:00 Research Brief
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS): Mass Casualty Extremist Offenders 2023-03-10T12:00:00 Research Brief
Project Fact Sheet: Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the U.S. Database and Portal 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Prosecuting Terror in the Homeland: An Assessment of Sentencing Disparities in United States Federal Terrorism Cases 2023-10-24T12:00:00 Research Brief
Prosecuting Terror in the Homeland: An Empirical Assessment of Sentencing Disparities in United States Federal Terrorism Cases 2024-03-31T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protecting the U.S. Government from Far-Right Insider Threats 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Report
Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish-Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2005-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Public Health Consequences of Terrorism on Maternal-Child Health in New York City and Madrid 2012-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database (Contemporary Terrorism Studies) 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Quantifying and Qualifying Charisma: A Theoretical Framework for Measuring the Presence of Charismatic Authority in Terrorist Groups 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Quantitative approaches to the study of terrorism- Editor's Introduction 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radical Right Cross-National Links and International Cooperation 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Radical Right Movement Parties in Europe 2018-12-01T12:00:00 Book
Radicalization in the Ranks 2022-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Radicalization in the Ranks: The Military Backgrounds of the January 6 Capitol Defendants 2023-05-05T12:00:00 Congressional Testimony
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Slight 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Re-Thinking Climate Security 2023-04-11T12:00:00 Research Brief
Reactions of Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors to Media Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin-Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rebel with a Cause: Personal Significance from Political Activism Predicts Willingness to Self‐Sacrifice 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Recruiting from the Ranks: A Typology of Recruitment Narratives Targeting the U.S. Military Community 2023-11-29T12:00:00 Research Brief
Regime Age and Terrorism: Are New Democracies Prone to Terrorism? 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Regime Types and Terrorism 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Report: U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism Before and After the April 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings 2013-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Reporting Practices of Journal Articles that Include Interviews with Extremists 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Repression and Terrorism: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis of Types of Repression and Domestic Terrorism 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Research Highlight: Bombing and Arson Attacks by Environmental and Animal Rights Extremists in the United States, 1995-2010 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Highlight: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Highlight: U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism 2013-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Highlight: U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism Before and After the April 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Highlight: Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism -- A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Review 2009 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Research Review
Researching Terrorist Networks 2006-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Responding to Terrorism? Human Rights Organization Shaming and Terrorist Attacks 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict 2010-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach 2009-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Root causes of radicalization: the terror-contagion hypothesis 2023-10-16T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Russian Nuclear Rhetoric 2014-2023: Transatlantic Differences in Threat Perception 2024-03-14T12:00:00 Journal Article
Say Terrorist, Think Insurgent: Labeling and Analyzing Contemporary Terrorist Actors 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Search Engines: Terrorism's Killer App 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Should START Researchers Embrace the Brain? 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2023-10-02T12:00:00 Research Brief
Simultaneous Attacks by Terrorist Organisations 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Single-issue Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Six reasons why stopping terrorism is so challenging 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Social Norms after Conflict Exposure and Victimization by Violence: Experimental Evidence from Kosovo 2018-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Spatial Analysis of U.S. Terrorism Incidents 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Spatial Distribution of Minority Communities and Terrorism 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Speaking Truth to Sources: Introducing a Method for the Quantitative Evaluation of Open Sources in Event Data 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
START Annual Meeting 2016: Quick-Fire Presentation - Terrorism and Radicalization 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Presentation
State Capacity and Terrorism: A Two-Dimensional Approach 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
State Terrorism Research and Critical Terrorism Studies: An Assessment 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Statistical Analysis of Event Data Concerning Boko Haram in Nigeria (2009-2013) 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hezbollah 2008-04-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and Its Fallacies 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Strengths and Weaknesses of Open Source Data for Studying Terrorism and Political Radicalization 2024-06-05T12:00:00 Journal Article
Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don’t Know 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Suicide Bombers – Martyrs, Heroes or Victims? 2014-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Suicide Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Suicide Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Surveying State Police Agencies about Domestic Terrorism and Far-Right Extremists 2008-02-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Swedish Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: An Analysis of Open-Source Intelligence and Statistical Data 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Report
Syria Barometer Survey: Opinions about War in Syria and about Radical Action 2016-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Taking the Sinai Province of the Islamic State Seriously Without Helping it Destabilize Egypt 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Targeting Strategies in Single-Issue Bomb Attacks 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Territorial Havens and the Risk of Complex Terrorist Attacks in the United States 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism and COVID-19: Actual and Potential Impacts 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and Democracy 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and Global Security 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism and Party Systems in the States of India 2010-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and the Internet 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and the North Caucasus: An Overview 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism and the Olympics 2012-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism Between "Syndrome" and "Tool" 2006-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism in Mali 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Terrorism in the News: The Efficiency and Impact of Sampling Methods on Data Collection and Content Analysis 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Chronic Threat and Conflict in Israel 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Preparedness and Exposure Reduction since 9/11: The Status of Public Readiness in the United States 2011-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Research: Current Issues and Debates 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism Research: The Record 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Studies: A Reader 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Terrorism Trends with a Focus on Energy and Mining 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorism—A (self) love story: Redirecting the significance quest can end violence 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Criminal Attacks by Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Groups in the United States, 1970–2007 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Terrorist Attacks in New York City 2010-05-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. between 1970 and 2012: Data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. between 1970 and 2013: Data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorist Attacks Involving Package Bombs, 1970 — 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Fact Sheet
Terrorist Attacks on Educational Institutions 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorist Attacks on US Coalition Supply Convoys and Bases in Iraq 2023-06-27T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorist Attacks Show Biggest Decline in a Decade; But Let's Wait Before Celebrating 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Terrorist Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure in the United States, 1970-2015 2016-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Hostage-taking 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Suspect Religious Identity and Public Support for Harsh Interrrogation and Detention Practices 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Case of Ramzi Youssef 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Challenges of Terrorism in a Globalized World 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Closing of Open Minds: Need for Closure Moderates the Impact of Uncertainty Salience on Outgroup Discrimination 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Cost of Living and Terror: Does Consumer Price Volatility Fuel Terrorism? 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Damoclean Sword of Offensive Cyber: Policy Uncertainty and Collective Insecurity 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Debate over "New" vs. "Old" Terrorism 2007-08-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
The Determinants of Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism in the USA: Economic Grievance, Societal Change and Political Resentment 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Diffusion and Permeability of Political Violence in North and West Africa 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Discourse and Practice of ‘Heroic Resistance’ in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – The Case of Hamas 2012-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Dog that Doesn't Bark 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Book
The Effect of Interventions on Functional Impairment in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: A Meta-Analysis 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Emerging Red-Green Alliance: Where Political Islam Meets the Radical Left 2013-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Empirical Study of Terrorism: Social and Legal Research 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Evolution of Prosociality and Parochialism After Violence 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Evolution of Terrorism Event Databases 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Future of Terrorism Research: A Review Essay 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Geography of U.S. Terrorist Incidents, 1970-2004 2009-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Global Terrorism Database, 1970–2010 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Book
The Handbook of Communication and Security 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Book
The Impact of Terrorism on Italian Employment and Business Activity 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Impact of the Boston Marathon Bombings on Public Willingness to Cooperate With Police 2017-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Impact of the Orlando Mass Shooting on Fear of Victimization and Gun-Purchasing Intentions: Not What One Might Expect 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Influence of External and Internal Correlates on the Organizational Death of Domestic Far-Right Extremist Groups 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Interplay between Terrorism, Nonstate Actors, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Exploration of the Pinkerton Database 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Media's Coverage of Domestic Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The New Face of Political Islam in Central Asia: The Rise of Islamo-democrats 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The nexus between terrorism and product counterfeiting in the United States 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Online Caliphate: Internet Usage and ISIS Support in the Arab World 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Book
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book
The Political Effectiveness of Non-State Violence: A Two-Level Framework to Transform a Deceptive Debate 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Politics of Suicide Terrorism 2005-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
The Politics of Terror 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamists and Western Left-Wing Extremists: A theoretical and Empirical Introduction 2012-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The psychological structure of aggression across cultures 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Terrorism: "Syndrome" Versus "Tool" Perspectives 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Relationship between Maternal Psychopathology and Parental Perceptions of Their Children’s Reactions in Survivors of the 1998 US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya 2019-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Role of Anger in the Radicalization of Terrorists 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Role of Risk Preferences in a Multi-Target Defender-Attacker Resource Allocation Game 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Security Dimension of Pakistan's Floods 2010-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Stasi-Meinhof Complex? 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails 2007-12-01T12:00:00 Book
The Terrorists' Planning Cycle: Patterns of Pre-incident Behaviors 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The thin red line 2013-03-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
The Use of Force in Foreign Policy 2017-07-27T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The War Within: A Look Inside al-Qaeda's Undoing 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Theory of an Emerging-State Actor: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Case † 2018-05-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
Thinking Beyond Deterrence 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Toward a Criminology of Terrorism 2023-06-16T12:00:00 Book
Toward a Psychology of Humiliation in Asymmetric Conflict 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Tracking Global Terrorism, 1970-2004 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Tracking Radical Opinions in Polls of U.S. Muslims 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Trajectories of Terrorism: Attack Patterns of Foreign Groups That Have Targeted the United States, 1970-2004 2009-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Islamist Networks: Western Fighters in Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Jihadism & Civil Wars 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Terrorism 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Book
Trauma, Grief, and Depression in Nairobi Children After the 1998 Bombing of the American Embassy 2006-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Treatment Approaches for Terrorists and Extremists 2018-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Trends in Global Terrorism, 1970-2007 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Trends in Israeli policing: terrorism, community, victimization and crime control 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Tyrants and Terrorism: Why Some Autocrats are Terrorized While Others are Not 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Research Highlight 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
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 after 9/11: Poll Trends 2001-2007 2009-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
U.S. Muslims with Radical Opinions Feel More Alienated and Depressed 2017-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning: Al-Qaeda and Beyond 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book
Unpacking nonviolent campaigns : Introducing the NAVCO 2.0 dataset 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Use of Firearms in Terrorist Attacks in the United States 1970-2014 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Validating Extremism: Strategic Use of Authority Appeals in al-Naba' Infographics 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Veto Players and Terror 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Violence in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Voting in the Shadow of Violence: Electoral Politics and Conflict in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
War Versus Justice in Response to Terrorist Attacks 2006-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Western Muslims Volunteering to fight in Syria and Iraq: Why do they go, and what should we do? 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Comes after ISIS? A Peace Proposal 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Do The Dead Say? The Architecture of Salvific Discourses in Post-Genocide Rwanda 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism 2024-01-04T12:00:00 Journal Article
What's Special about U.S. Muslims? The War on Terrorism as Seen by Muslims in the United States, Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, and Indonesia 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Data Do Not Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations Are Involved in the Drug Trade 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Terrorism Works: Explaining Success and Failure Across Varying Targets and Objectives 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
When terrorists target schools: An exploratory analysis of attacks on educational institutions 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Women Fight: Unemployment, Territorial Control and the Prevalence of Female Combatants in Insurgent Organizations 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
White Demographic Anxiety and Support for Torture of Terrorism Suspects 2020-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Who Prepares for Terrorism? 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Who Tortures the Terrorists? Transnational Terrorism and Military Torture 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why ISIS' Message Resonates: Leveraging Islam, Socio-Political Catalysts and Adaptive Messaging 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Why the United States is Targeted by Terrorism 2010-10-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Yes, No, and Maybe in the World of Terrorism Research: Reflections on the Commentaries 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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"Peace and Conflict" Features Research from START Investigators
'Carrot' Works Better than 'Stick' Against Terror in Israel
‘The Price of Certainty’
**START Releases 2010 Update to the Global Terrorism Database**
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats
2011-2012 Background Report Undergraduate Terrorism Analysis Training (UTAT) Program Application Deadline Extended
A grassroots approach to tackling violent extremism
A perfect storm for far-right extremism
A Smart Bomb in Every Garage? Driverless Cars and the Future of Terrorist Attacks
Al-Qaida's fatal terrorism under Osama bin Laden
Al-Shabaab Attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya
Analyzing peace and civil conflict
Application information for START 2006-07 Fellowships now available
Applications Now Being Accepted from UMaryland Undergraduates for Terrorism Studies Minor Program
AQAM’s fatal attacks and violent plots in the US
Assessing the likelihood of Hate Crime in wake of Boston Attacks
Black Swans and Burstiness: Oct. 4 Lecture
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the US
Braniff offers Congressional testimony
Braniff presents "Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Global Jihadism"
Bridging academia and policy to build better CVE programs
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
CBRN terrorism by non-state actors
Climate change: Fueling terror and extremism
Database Spotlight: Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB)
Database Spotlight: Muslim Public Opinion and Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda and U.S. Policies
Database Spotlight: Radiological and Nuclear Non-State Adversaries (RANNSAD)
Despite fewer attacks in Western world, global terrorism increasing
Detecting deception
DHS grant enables further work using physics to understand terrorist threats
DHS renews support for START terrorism research for next five years
DHS renews support for the Integrated U.S. Security Database (IUSSD)
DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Dr. Charles E. McQueary, speaks to START
Discussion Point: Thinking Beyond Deterrence
Discussion Point: 'Keep Wicked Calm and Carry the Hell On': Boston, Terrorism and the Rhetorical Power of Resilience
Discussion Point: Beyond al-Qa'ida
Discussion Point: Black Swans and Burstiness—Countering Myths about Terrorism
Discussion Point: Counterterrorism Strategies and Democracy: Lessons for the US from the (Unfortunate) Example of Turkey
Discussion Point: From the Caucasus to Boston and Beyond
Discussion Point: Introducing 'Political Resilience'
Discussion Point: It's not Big Data, but Little Data, that Prevents Terrorist Attacks
Discussion Point: Kansas City shootings constitute terrorism
Discussion Point: Terrorism Studies is not a Sub-Discipline
Discussion Point: The Dog that Doesn't Bark
Discussion Point: Why isn't anyone calling this terrorism, still?
Earn a graduate certificate through START
Equipping educators to understand mass violence and extremism
Exposed to new perspectives - Katiria Ortiz's Australian Experience
Fact Sheet: American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks
Fact Sheet: American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2016
Fahey discusses political instability, state capacity and terrorism
Far-right Violence in the United States: 1990-2010
First-of-its-kind index ranks countries for impact of terrorism
From carpentry to communication
Gary LaFree in 'The Five Myths of Global Terrorism' video for the World Economic Forum
German FFO funds GTD
GIS research project seeks to combat drug cartels and gangs in Mexico and Central America
Global terrorism decreases in 2018 as recent uptick in U.S. terrorist attacks was sustained
Global Terrorism Overview: Terrorism in 2019
GTD informs Global Terrorism Index
GTD nominated for UMD's Invention of the Year
Hegghammer explains variation in western jihadists
Hybrid political criminal organizations pose RN smuggling threat
ICONS team announces new self-serve online simulations
Innovative START project wins UMD-TEC seed funding
Institute for Economics and Peace releases 2020 Global Terrorism Index
Intern Spotlight: Rick Magill
Intern team authors peer-reviewed journal article on Hamas
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?
Jeffrey Lewis discusses history and culture behind suicide bombings
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Radicalization Researcher
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Senior Research Associate
Justice Research and Statistics Association Features a Profile of START
Kurt Braddock’s ‘Weaponized Words’ teaches how to outtalk a terrorist
LaFree comments on terrorist imprisonment
LaFree Discusses Terrorism Myths and Realities
LaFree speaks at National Institute of Justice conference
Leading terrorism expert discusses mobilization of women into terrorist networks
Major update to PIRUS dataset adds 955 U.S. subjects from 2019-2021
Majority of 2013 terrorist attacks occurred in just a few countries
Marginalization, discrimination create greater risk of radicalization for immigrants
Mohamed Nimer on the Americanization and Evolution of Islamism
New Book: European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet
New data reveals al-Qaida-linked groups among most active terrorist groups in the world
New editor will take on post for START-Oxford University Press book series
New GTD data will be explored during July 9 webinar
New journal is a resource for Global Terrorism Research
New report examines relationship between county characteristics and incidents of terrorism
New Report Highlights the Challenges of Tracking Terrorism Events: GTD Indicates Global Terrorism Fatalities Up, Not Down
New research examines financial crime and political extremism
New START Project to Focus on Extremist Violence in U.S. Counties
New START study examines communities where terrorists lived, planned and prepared
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines
New study examines terrorism in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
New, Updated Data on Global Terrorist Activity Now Available
News media affects how Muslims are perceived, treated
Olympics and Terrorism
Our shared reality is fraying
Policing Terrorism
Policy specialist takes on new challenge with START's Graduate Certificate
Position Opening: Special Projects Program Manager
Post-Doc Opportunity for Information Management Expert for Data Archive
Proportion of terrorist attacks by religious and right-wing extremists on the rise in United States
Remittances and the financing of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Research Highlight: Al-Qa'ida-Related Terrorism - Violent Incidents and Foiled Plots
Research improves understanding of geographic clustering of terrorist attacks
Research Roundtable details the patterns of terrorism worldwide
Researcher analyzes how community ties impact terrorist groups’ targeting of civilians
Researcher Spotlight: Amy Pate
Researcher spotlight: Brandon Behlendorf
Researcher Spotlight: Daniella Fridl
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Jun Zhuang
Researcher Spotlight: Erik Dahl
Researcher Spotlight: Michele Gelfand
Researcher Spotlight: Nil Satana
Researcher Spotlight: Risa Brooks
Rigid cultural values related to greater number of terrorist attacks
Secretary Janet Napolitano visits START
Significant Terrorism Events in the News -- Nov. 1-20
Significant Terrorism Events in the News: September 2013
Spring 2011 START Bulletin Now Available
START accepting applications for new scholarship program
START and CHC Global to speak at IFTRIP LIVESTREAM 2020
START Announces 2007-08 Fellowship Awards
START Announces 2011-2012 Terrorism Research Award Participants
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Assesses Impact of 9/11
START director addresses common myths of terrorism
START Director Gary LaFree Comments on Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11
START Director LaFree Discusses Terrorist Behavior on Kojo Nnamdi Show
START director to lecture on contrasting nature of terrorism
START executive director to testify before Congress on the state of al-Qaida
START Featured in DHS S&T Snapshots
START Founding Director delivers Sutherland lecture at American Society of Criminology annual meeting
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams
START hosts expert panel and career symposium on innovation in homeland security
START hosts virtual book talk on “Insurgent Terrorism”
START Intern Profiles: July
START interns prepare for capstone presentations
START investigator and former TRA recipient publish book on the mobilization of right-wing extremism
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START investigators present research at national conference
START launches infographic series with War on the Rocks
START launches new master’s degree program in security and terrorism studies
START launches online course on terror-crime nexus and CBRN
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast
START Newsletter: US beliefs before, after Boston bombings; Terrorist targeting of civilians; Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
START Partners with ICPSR to Launch Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center
START Partners with Maryland Leadership Institute
START provides 2013 statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism
START provides statistical annex for Country Reports on Terrorism
START reaches out to dozens of middle and high schoolers
START receives DHS Spirit of Excellence Award
START Releases 2011 Research Review
START releases new data collections
START research examines history of terrorism and the Olympic Games
START research informs Senate report on Chesser
START research travels far in the cyber-physical domain
START researcher explores how terrorism affects democracy, compares Turkey and US
START researcher invited to discuss terrorists' motivations
START researcher to publish book on suicide bombings
START researchers awarded nearly $1 million to improve effectiveness of emergency alert text messaging
START researchers awarded top honors for applying marketing framework to violent groups
START researchers brief Swedish delegation
START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability
START Researchers Honored with Best Paper Award by IEEE
START Researchers Participate in Session on Psychology of Terrorism
START Researchers Present at American Political Science Association Annual Conference
START researchers present on the impact of climate change on terrorism
START responds to White House report on preventing violent extremism
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START strengthens ties to private industry with strategic partnership, publications, events
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists
START study examines U.S. attitudes, beliefs before and after the Boston Marathon bombings
START study leads to support for SLTT officials
START team develops dataset on cyberattacks against critical infrastructure
START to begin monthly series highlighting Dataverse data collections
START to expand social media presence
START to Mark Official Launch of Offices with Public Remarks
START to offer Massive Open Online Course
START Welcomes New Advisory Board Member
START, CINA and CAOE develop search tool for combatting cartels in Mexico and the Northern Triangle
START's training events help others understand terrorism
START's website proves valuable, well-used resource
State Department contracts START to provide terrorism data and analysis
Student researches ties between terrorism and the Olympics
Study shows hate crimes more likely to occur after terrorist attacks
Summer and Fall Internship Opportunities with START and the GTD
Summer Course Offerings
Tall ambitions from the START
Terrorism and the Olympics: Sochi, Russia 2014
Terrorism expert discusses new research during START Seminar
Terrorism in Belgium and Western Europe; Attacks against Transportation Targets; Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
Terrorism studies graduate certificate application deadline is quickly approaching
Terrorism Studies Minor information sessions
Terrorism studies minor now accepting applications
Terrorism studies program takes students to tour the Pentagon
Terrorism: A Self-Love Story
Terrorist attack deaths increase in Iraq, the West, despite decrease worldwide
Terrorist attacks involving firearms more likely to be lethal than other types of attacks
Terrorist violence decreases worldwide in 2017, but remains historically high
Terrorists act locally
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research
Trends in terrorism in the U.S.: New report analyzes terrorist attack data 1970-2011
U.S. perpetrators tend to attack close to home
UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
UMD researchers win $1.5M Minerva Grant to understand social media information campaigns
UMD-led study shows disparities in violence among extremist groups
Understanding conflict management in India
Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt
US Muslims with radical opinions feel more alienated and depressed
Violent extremism in the U.S.
White House Science and Technology Director Addresses Need for Innovations to Combat Terrorism
White Paper: A Multi-Layer Assessment of Terrorism in its Current and Future Manifestation
White Paper: Perspectives on Terrorism and Responses to It
Working with al-Qaeda Documents: An Analyst's View before 9/11
Title Job Title Institution
person-default Amanda Quinn Faculty Research Assistant, GTD University of Maryland
Amy landiorio Amy Iandiorio Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
Anita atwell Anita Atwell Seate Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Affiliate Assistant Professor, START 		University of Maryland
anthony Lemieux Anthony Lemieux Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program Georgia State University
person-default Benjamin Evans Faculty Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database, START University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf Brandon Behlendorf Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Miller Erin Erin Miller Former GTD Program Manager, START University of Maryland
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 		University of Maryland
Gina_Ligon Gina Scott Ligon Director of National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE); Jack and Stephanie Koraleski Professor of Collaboration Science, UNO University of Nebraska Omaha
Tinsley_Herbert Herbert Tinsley Analyst, Government Accountability Office
Jake Loewner Jacob Loewner Researcher, START University of Maryland
Jeff Jeff Gruenewald Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas University of Arkansas
Sawyer John John Sawyer Director of Strategic Corporate Research Relationships University of Maryland
Joshua Freilich Joshua Freilich Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Panyan Karina Panyan Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START University of Maryland
Lindquist Katy Lindquist Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Laura Dugan Laura Dugan Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University
Leah Peckham Leah Peckham Research Assistant, START University of Maryland
Romm madeline Madeline Romm Faculty Specialist University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START 		University of Maryland
Margaret Margaret Hayden Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
Crenshaw Martha Martha Crenshaw Researcher, Political Science/International Relations Stanford University
Erdemandi Max Erdemandi Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition University of Maryland
person-default Michael Jensen Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
Jacome_Michlle Michelle Jacome Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank
Oleksiy Oleksiy Krylyuk Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
 Chapman University
Prabhakar misra Prabhakar Misra Professor of Physics Howard University
R. Karl Rethemeyer R. Karl Rethemeyer Associate Professor of Public Administration & Policy University at Albany, State University of New York
Salma_Bouziani Salma Bouziani Project Manager/Researcher, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
Stevan_Weine Stevan Weine Professor of Psychiatry University of Illinois at Chicago
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 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
Braniff William William Braniff Department Chair, START Director (on IPA)
Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland 		University of Maryland
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A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism
Al-Qa'ida Transcript Coding Project
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Government Terror Warnings on Political Attitudes Go
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
Behavioral Assessments Based on Automated Text Analyses
Belief Formation and Political Engagement: A Panel Study of the Dynamics of Change in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey
Border Crossings and Terrorist Attacks in the United States: Lessons for Protecting Against Dangerous Entrants
Bridging Partisan Division over Anti-Terrorism Policies: The Role of Threat Perceptions Go
Bridging Religious Communities and Technology Providers to Counter Narratives of Violent Extremism
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Communicating Risk of Mass Casualty Terrorism in Diverse Communities
Community Field Studies and Analyses of Preparedness Networks
Community-level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Measurement Workshop
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
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
Drivers of Conflict and Convergence in China-U.S. Relations in a Global Context
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects
Family and Community Capacities among US Minorities: a Key to Preventing Violent Extremism
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
GTD Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
GATE-Israel Government Actions in a Terror Environment - Israel (GATE-Israel) Go
Homegrown Radicalization and the Role of Social Networks and Social Inclusiveness in the United States
Insider Threat Program
International Survey Capability
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat
Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa's Lebanese Muslim Community
Mobilization For and Against Terrorism in the Muslim World
Modeling and Simulation of Public Response to Threat and Attacks
Modeling Risk of Future Terrorist Attacks
Muslim Public Opinion on U.S. Policy, Attacks on Civilians, and al Qaeda Go
National Household Survey
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization
Opportunities for Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Extremism and Recruitment
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience Go
Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science, and GIS
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism
PPT-US Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States (PPT-US) Go
Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda, and US Policies Go
Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States
Radicalization in the Ranks
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups
Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations
Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space
SMICI Significant Multi-domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Go
Social Identity and Perceptions of Counterterrorism
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity
Sources of Blame Attribution: Citizen Attitudes Towards Public Officials after 9/11 Go
START-Oxford University Press Book Series
State Response and Terrorist Activity
TPDRC Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center (TPDRC) Go
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States
Terrorism and Violence in Colombia
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence
Terrorist Strategies and Tactics: When Do Terrorists Decide to Attack the US?
TEVUS TEVUS Portal Go
The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia
The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America
The Youth, Emotional Energy, and Political Violence: The Cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia Go
Tracking Attitudes within American Subculture
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia
U.S. Attitudes toward Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT)
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset